Cisco — Volume 343, Issue 4

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Volume 343, Issue 4 · 14 articles from 2 issues

In This Issue

Defenders Need More Time to Patch with the Influx of Patching Hitting Operations (Cisco, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026)

Cisco pitches Live Protect and Snort-based virtual patching on Secure Firewall to reduce exposure while critical patches are applied. Read more

Cisco Rethinks Privileged Infrastructure Access (Cisco, Monday, October 26th, 2026)

Cisco introduces Privileged Infrastructure Access, using identity-bound, short-lived privileges for admins and AI agents on networks. Read more

A Shared Language for Agent Defense: Introducing Project Quarry (Cisco, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026)

Cisco open sources Project Quarry, a detection language for describing and finding multi-step attacks against AI agents across full session traces. Read more

Cisco IT's Endpoint Observability Strategy: Right-Sized Telemetry for Splunk Observability Cloud (Cisco, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026)

Cisco IT cut endpoint telemetry volume by 75% using a right-sized observability approach in Splunk Observability Cloud. Read more

Cisco Open Sources Tool for Detecting AI Agents on Hacking Sprees (The Register, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026)

Cisco open sources Project Quarry, a rule-based engine that evaluates whole AI agent sessions to detect malicious behavior. Read more

Introducing Cisco Model Foundry: Bringing AI to Our Partners (Cisco, Monday, October 26th, 2026)

Cisco unveils Model Foundry at Partner Summit, letting partners use and fine-tune Cisco's networking and security AI models. Read more

Three Languages, One Binary: Building a VMware Nutanix Inventory With Claude (Cisco, Wednesday, October 21st, 2026)

A Cisco DevNet engineer describes using Claude to build a single tool that inventories VMware and Nutanix environments. Read more

Securing AI Agents Across the AI Factory (Cisco, Wednesday, October 21st, 2026)

Cisco previews how Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA applies infrastructure-level security to AI agents at GTC Berlin. Read more

Splunk State of Observability 2026: Avoiding the Hidden Costs of AI Agents (Cisco, Tuesday, October 20th, 2026)

Cisco releases the Splunk State of Observability 2026 report, finding AI agent deployment is outpacing the ability to monitor it. Read more

State of Observability 2026 Reveals How Leaders Are Restoring Predictability to the Agentic Era (Cisco, Tuesday, October 20th, 2026)

Cisco says its 2026 observability research shows agentic systems are breaking traditional incident-response logic. Read more

Cisco OT Security and CML: Two Announcements, One Vision (Cisco, Tuesday, October 20th, 2026)

Cisco Learning connects new OT security and Cisco Modeling Labs announcements to converging networking, security and AI skills. Read more

Using AI to Re-Architect the Cisco DevNet Sandbox Environment: Part 1 (Cisco, Thursday, October 22nd, 2026)

A Cisco engineer begins a five-part series on redesigning the DevNet sandbox network with Claude as a second architect. Read more

How Cisco IQ Powers Continuous Compliance for PCI DSS 4.0 and Quantum Readiness (Cisco, Friday, October 23rd, 2026)

Cisco explains how Cisco IQ helps financial institutions treat PCI DSS 4.0 compliance and quantum readiness as continuous operations. Read more

Introducing Agentic Evaluation in FAITH (Cisco, Friday, October 23rd, 2026)

Cisco introduces Agentic FAITH, extending its Foundation AI evaluation framework to multi-step, tool-using agent tasks. Read more