Cisco Redefines Security for the Agentic Era with AI Defense Expansion

Summary

At Cisco Live EMEA in Amsterdam, Cisco unveiled a major expansion of its AI Defense platform — the largest update since its January 2025 launch — specifically targeting security for enterprise agentic AI deployments. The suite introduces four new capabilities: an AI Bill of Materials (AI BOM) for centralized visibility and governance of AI software assets including Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and third-party dependencies; an MCP Catalog that discovers and inventories MCP servers and reg