Cisco Launches Agentic Platform to Manage and Secure Critical IT Infrastructure

Cisco Live US, Las Vegas / Malaysia. 3 June 2026 — Cisco has unveiled Cisco Cloud Control, a groundbreaking unified platform designed to help organizations manage, monitor, and defend critical IT infrastructure in an increasingly AI-driven world. Announced at Cisco Live, the platform serves as the foundation of Cisco’s new AgenticOps operating model, enabling human operators and AI agents to work together seamlessly while maintaining human oversight and control.

As artificial intelligence continues to reshape enterprise operations, Cisco Cloud Control introduces a new approach to infrastructure management by bringing networking, security, observability, collaboration, and computing resources into a single environment. Through one login and a unified management plane, organizations gain complete visibility across their technology ecosystem, allowing both humans and AI agents to access the same operational data and act on shared insights in real time.

According to Cisco, the rise of autonomous AI agents has dramatically accelerated the speed at which organizations must respond to operational challenges and cybersecurity threats. Cisco Cloud Control addresses this challenge by integrating cross-domain telemetry, advanced AI models, and trusted autonomous agents capable of detecting issues, identifying root causes, testing solutions, implementing fixes, and verifying system recovery. The platform is powered in part by Cisco’s Deep Network Model, which leverages more than four decades of operational networking expertise to deliver intelligent decision-making at scale.

Among the platform’s standout features is Cisco AI Canvas, a collaborative generative workspace that allows human teams and AI agents to investigate and resolve complex issues together using shared, real-time evidence. Cisco Cloud Control also introduces Cloud Control Studio, where organizations can create custom AI agents, applications, and automated workflows using natural language prompts. Through integrations with major technology ecosystems including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google Cloud, ServiceNow, Slack, PagerDuty, and others, businesses can extend automation capabilities across their existing digital infrastructure.

Alongside the launch of Cisco Cloud Control, the company announced a series of cybersecurity innovations designed to address the shrinking gap between vulnerability discovery and exploitation. Cisco highlighted that the window between identifying a vulnerability and cybercriminals exploiting it has narrowed from weeks to mere minutes, creating an urgent need for real-time protection.

To meet this challenge, Cisco is expanding its Live Protect technology, which functions as a digital immune system for Cisco products. The solution provides runtime protection against newly discovered vulnerabilities without requiring system reboots, software upgrades, or downtime. Initially available for Cisco’s N9000 series switches, Live Protect is expected to expand across more Cisco infrastructure products in the coming months.

The company also continues to strengthen its Hybrid Mesh Firewall capabilities, offering unified protection across networks, applications, and both Cisco and third-party security environments. In addition, Cisco is enhancing its AI Defense portfolio and Agentic Security framework to secure AI agents themselves while ensuring they operate safely and responsibly within enterprise environments.

Looking ahead to future threats, Cisco is placing significant emphasis on quantum-safe security. Recognizing the growing risk of “harvest now, decrypt later” attacks, where encrypted data is collected today for future decryption using quantum computers, Cisco announced a commitment to enable quantum-safe communications across the majority of its core portfolio by the end of 2026. New infrastructure products, including routers, switches, and firewalls, will now launch with quantum-safe secure boot capabilities by default.

To help organizations assess their readiness for the post-quantum era, Cisco introduced Quantum Ready Assessments through Cisco IQ. The service identifies assets most vulnerable to future quantum threats and provides guidance on prioritizing mitigation efforts. Cisco also unveiled its Quantum Resilience Framework, offering enterprises a structured roadmap for implementing post-quantum cryptography and strengthening long-term cyber resilience.

Further supporting customers in navigating the rapidly evolving threat landscape, Cisco Services introduced Resilient Infrastructure Services, a comprehensive program combining exposure assessment, infrastructure modernization, and defense resiliency planning. Integrated within Cisco Cloud Control, Cisco IQ serves as an AI-powered platform delivering actionable insights, peer benchmarking, and resilience recommendations based on Zero Trust principles.

With organizations increasingly relying on AI-powered operations, Cisco’s latest announcements underscore its ambition to provide enterprises with the tools needed to operate securely at machine speed. By combining intelligent automation, advanced cybersecurity protections, and quantum-ready capabilities, Cisco Cloud Control represents a significant step toward enabling the next generation of resilient, AI-driven digital infrastructure.

Global availability planned for July 2026.  

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