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Cisco Redefines Cybersecurity Defense with Powerful, Portfolio-Wide

Artificial Intelligence Capabilities

Cisco, the leader in enterprise networking and security, unveiled to discover policies and get rule recommendations, eliminating
the Cisco AI Assistant for Security. This marks a major step in duplicate rules, misconfigured policies and complex workflows
making artificial intelligence (AI) pervasive in the Security Cloud, with increased visibility as well as accelerated troubleshooting
Cisco's unified, AI-driven, cross-domain security platform. The AI and configuration tasks.
Assistant will help customers make informed decisions, augment • AI-powered Encrypted Visibility Engine for All Firewall Models:
their tool capabilities and automate complex tasks. “To be an Most data center traffic today is encrypted and the inability to
AI-first company, you must be a data-first company. With our inspect encrypted traffic is a key security concern. Decrypting
extensive native telemetry, Cisco is uniquely positioned to deliver traffic for inspection is resource-intensive and fraught with
cybersecurity solutions that allow businesses to confidently operational, privacy and compliance issues. With the 7.4.1
operate at machine scale, augmenting what humans can do alone,” Operating System now available across the entire Cisco
said Jeetu Patel, Executive Vice President and General Manager Secure Firewall family, customers see AI go even further via
of Security and Collaboration at Cisco. “Today’s announcement the Encrypted Visibility Engine. The Encrypted Visibility Engine
is a monumental step forward. This advancement will help tip leverages billions of samples, including sandboxed malware
the scales in favor of defenders, empowering customers with AI samples, to determine if the encrypted traffic is transporting
built pervasively throughout the Cisco Security Cloud.” As cyber- malware. It can tell which operating system the traffic is coming
attacks continue to evolve, organizations’ defenses must, too. from and what client application is generating that - all without
Ransomware and extortion attacks continue to persist at a steady the need for decryption.
pace, making up 20 percent of Cisco Talos Incident Response "The ability for AI to reshape our daily lives and professional
engagements this year, according to the new Cisco Talos 2023 Year landscapes is immense. As a longstanding Cisco partner, we're
in Review Report. Talos also observed an increase in sophisticated excited about the new Cisco AI Assistant for Security and how
attacks on networking devices this past year, particularly by state- this will empower our customers with AI-driven efficiencies,”
sponsored actors. The increased speed and sophistication of said Graham Robinson, Chief Technology Officer, Data#3. “The
malicious actors requires the adoption of machine-scale defenses. introduction of the AI Assistant to Cisco Firewall Management
With unmatched visibility across the network and security, Cisco Center will help our customers quickly and easily configure policy
works with more machine-driven telemetry and on a scale larger changes. When combined with the new features in the 7.4.1
than most in the industry. The new Cisco AI Assistant for Security software release and the Encrypted Visibility Engine, this offers a
is trained on one of the largest security-focused data sets in the truly compelling overall experience."
world, which analyzes more than 550 billion security events each
day across web, email, endpoints, networks and applications. It can
understand event triage, impact and scope, root cause analysis
and policy design. With this data, the AI Assistant aims to close the
gap between cybersecurity intent and outcomes. All of Cisco’s AI
capabilities are built securely and align with Cisco’s Responsible AI
Framework. Continuing the rapid pace of innovation, today Cisco
is introducing:
• AI Assistant for Firewall Policy: The Cisco AI Assistant for
Security is first going live within the Cisco Cloud-delivered Firewall
Management Center and Cisco Defense Orchestrator to solve
the big challenge of setting and maintaining complex policies
and firewall rules. Administrators can now use natural language

Du Launches 5G SA; Smartphone Service

Available, with Home Internet to Follow

UAE operator Du announced the commercial launch of its Du’s press release confirmed that the first 5G SA-enabled device
5G Standalone (SA) network, heralding a significant upgrade available to consumers on its network is the Samsung Galaxy S23
from existing 5G infrastructure providing faster mobile data smartphone, but added that ‘an array’ of devices will follow ‘soon’
connections, smoother media streaming, lower latency, robust from multiple handset manufacturers, giving users ‘unprecedented
security features and improved overall network performance. speeds, minimal latency, and seamless connectivity.’ Furthermore,

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