Transforming security for AI-enabled networks: Cisco's Kevin Wollenweber
Cisco Systems
said it is working aggressively to transform the security landscape for
artificial intelligence
(AI)-backed networks following the multinationals' efforts to evolve network technologies.
'We will continue to evolve those technologies. We are transforming security for AI-enabled networks. Today, most of our firewall policy enforcement technologies are done at the edges of the network itself,'
Kevin Wollenweber
, senior vice president,
Cisco
Systems, told ETTelecom.
Recently, Chuck Robbins-headed Cisco has revamped its security portfolio, making deployment more flexible for its customers and partners.
The San Jose-based company said that it enforces AI security at the network level, decoupling AI deployment from security.
The executive said, 'We have tied the security of the models into our identity technology so that we can look at your IT infrastructure and understand who is running what models.'
'So, at Cisco, we have been very careful about the usage of AI, and launched
AI Defense
, early this year.'
Designed and developed for enterprises to build, deploy, and protect AI applications, Cisco AI Defense security solution, a part of cloud platform, focuses on AI deployment and monitoring AI usage across the organisation and is capable of detecting vulnerabilities and bringing security policies into effect.
'Our AI Defense product ensures the right level of capabilities to protect the application," Jeetu Patel, executive vice president at Cisco, separately said.
Earlier, Cisco expressed its ambition of convergence between networking and security.
In January this year, the networking and AI security company unveiled AI Defense, to safeguard AI transformation within enterprises.
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