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U.S. Open powers up AI-ready network in challenging environment

At the U.S. Open, Cisco and the USGA built a network that survives dust, rain, roving crowds, and cyberattacks — and the lessons for network engineers extend well beyond golf.

By Zeus Kerravala

Jun 29, 202610 mins

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Rami Rahim’s message for network pros: Legacy networks can’t withstand rigors of AI

By Zeus Kerravala

Jun 23, 202610 mins

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Dell launches AI server based on Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs

By Michael Cooney

Jun 22, 20265 mins

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FortiBleed campaign exposes 75,000 Fortinet firewalls worldwide

By Shweta Sharma

Jun 18, 20264 mins

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Cisco patches SD-WAN flaw amid evidence of active exploitation

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Jun 16, 20265 mins

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How Jeetu Patel made Cisco unrecognizable

By Zeus Kerravala

Jun 12, 202610 mins

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AI-powered WAF, virtual patching: How F5 is hardening networks against frontier threats

F5 adds AI-powered web application firewall (WAF) to guard networks against pre-exploit attacks.

By Sean Michael Kerner

Jun 10, 2026 4 mins

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Residential proxies are hiding in plain sight inside enterprise networks

Research from Infoblox finds the traffic routing technology is widespread across corporate, government, and financial networks, and defenders often cannot see it.

By Sean Michael Kerner

Jun 10, 2026 6 mins

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Zscaler launches zero trust platform for agentic AI

Zscaler unveiled a zero trust platform for agentic AI at its Zenith Live 2026 conference in Las Vegas.

By Maria Korolov

Jun 9, 2026 4 mins

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Attackers exploiting unpatched Cisco SD-WAN flaw

The vulnerability enables authenticated attackers to take over the enterprise network management system as root and may be connected to previous UAT-8616 activity.

By Lucian Constantin

Jun 8, 2026 3 mins

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Lyrie.ai Joins First Batch of Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program

By Cyber NewsWire

May 11, 2026 4 mins

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Cisco: Latest news and insights

Here’s what you need to know about the networking giant’s latest product and company news.

By Network World staff

Jun 5, 2026 47 mins

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What is Cisco Cloud Control and why should customers care?

Cloud Control is a consolidated management plane, but it's not a passive dashboard. Policy and identity are built directly into the control path. It's a sharp departure from the days when a dashboard’s job was mostly to display information and leave the operator to figure out the rest.

By Zeus Kerravala

Jun 3, 2026 10 mins

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Netskope introduces AI Command Center to monitor and secure enterprise AI sprawl

Netskope launches AI Command Center, a platform designed to help enterprises discover, assess, govern, and secure AI applications and agents.

By Denise Dubie

Jun 2, 2026 4 mins

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Cisco Live: The network is back, and AI rewrote the rules

As Cisco Live kicks off in Las Vegas, Tom Gillis shares how AI has changed networking, including inside Cisco, where AI coding tools have accelerated software development across its entire product portfolio.

By Sean Michael Kerner

Jun 2, 2026 7 mins

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Cisco brings agentic ops platform and security overhaul to Cisco Live

Cisco aims to become the infrastructure layer for the agentic enterprise. It launched a flurry of new products and features at its Cisco Live event taking place this week in Las Vegas.

By Sean Michael Kerner

Jun 2, 2026 9 mins

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Attackers exploit Palo Alto GlobalProtect flaw days after disclosure

The credential-less authentication bypass offers attackers a stealthy route into enterprise networks without malware, phishing, or stolen credentials.

By Gyana Swain

Jun 2, 2026 5 mins

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