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AI Defense, Splunk, and Cisco IQ innovations give security and operations teams one loop to find risk, measure value, and prove trust.
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Cisco AI Defense’s adaptive AI red teaming framework is adding Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, harnessing advanced adversarial reasoning to simulate real-world attacks on AI agents.
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With Cisco’s enhanced Tokenomics, organizations can optimize AI spend to defend what matters most by connecting agent cost directly with ROI in real time.
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Cisco IQ, which leverages decades of vulnerability and troubleshooting data, now correlates live threat detection data with potentially exposed network infrastructure at machine speed to accelerate remediation.
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Together, these innovations offer enterprises an always-on trust loop to secure, govern, and observe increasingly capable AI agents and complex enterprise AI deployments.
MELBOURNE, Australia, Nov. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — CISCO LIVE APJC — Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced it is adding Claude Mythos to AI Defense for red teaming AI applications and agents, empowering defenders to stress-test AI systems with frontier adversary reasoning. Coupled with new Splunk Agent Observability and Cisco IQ advancements, Cisco is preparing enterprises for a new era of trust that requires securing, observing, and governing agents at machine speed.
You cannot scale what you cannot secure, govern,
“You cannot scale what you cannot secure, govern, or observe,” said Cisco President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel. “By uniting frontier-level AI runtime protections with machine-speed agent quality controls, we are building a continuous trust loop: protecting agents from compromise while ensuring every token spent delivers measurable business value.”
As AI agents proliferate and connect to complex tools and sensitive data, 81% of ITOps and engineering professionals cite increased cooperation between security and observability teams, according to a global Splunk research report last month. Cisco’s Splunk and AI Defense innovations equip security leaders to account for token spend and effective tool use while conducting tailored security testing against highly capable AI agents.
Since Cisco launched AI Defense in January 2025, it has helped hundreds of customers identify critical flaws in AI models, applications, and agents before they reach production. Its adaptive red teaming allows security teams to quickly build customized, multi-step attacks on target systems to uncover specific risks. Claude Mythos will augment this framework with advanced reasoning that plans tests that matter and translates the results into attack ideas for each system.
