Security Operations Center (SOC)

Developing With Cisco XDR at Cisco Live San Diego ‘25

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Developing With Cisco XDR at Cisco Live San Diego ‘25

Cisco XDR has always been predicated on the knowledge that every customer and every SOC is different. With thousands of products on the market clamoring for attention and budgets, the likelihood of any XDR solution supporting all your organization’s needs is minimal. For these reasons, Cisco XDR is built on top of a foundationally open architecture with documented open-source protocols and RESTful APIs. If a technology your team relies on isn’t supported out-of-the-box in Cisco…

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Automate Forensics to Eliminate Uncertainty

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Automate Forensics to Eliminate Uncertainty

At RSA Conference 2025, one theme echoed across the show floor: security teams don’t need more alerts—they need more certainty. As threats move faster and operations get leaner, organizations are shifting from reactive investigation to proactive, automated forensics. That’s why we’re excited to announce a major leap forward in Cisco XDR: automated forensics built into the detection and response workflow. The Modern SOC Struggles with Confidence, Not Just Complexity It’s no longer about just identifying suspicious activity….

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Instant Attack Verification: Verification to Trust Automated Response

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Instant Attack Verification: Verification to Trust Automated Response

At RSAC 2023, Cisco unveiled its new solution, Cisco XDR, with the promise of transforming the way that Security Teams operate. Two years later, Cisco has executed that promise for over 1000 customers, providing defined and prioritized incidents with guided responses, and reducing mean time to respond. Now at RSAC 2025, Cisco is democratizing Security Operations further, evolving the jobs of cyber-defenders once more in the world of AI. Instant Attack Verification Designed to take…

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Cisco XDR Just Changed the Game, Again

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Cisco XDR Just Changed the Game, Again

The Confidence Gap in SecOps Is Real, and It’s Time to Close It Over the past year I’ve spoken with hundreds of CISOs and SOC leaders and no matter the organization’s size or industry there is a recurring theme: Security teams aren’t struggling with a lack of data, they’re struggling with a lack of clarity. Alerts are easy, but actions are hard. Speed alone is no longer enough. What teams need now are smarter systems—solutions…

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Black Hat Asia 2025: Innovation in the SOC

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Black Hat Asia 2025: Innovation in the SOC

Cisco is honored to be a partner of the Black Hat NOC (Network Operations Center), as the Official Security Cloud Provider. This was our 9th year supporting Black Hat Asia. We work with other official providers to bring the hardware, software and engineers to build and secure the Black Hat network: Arista, Corelight, MyRepublic and Palo Alto Networks. The primary mission in the NOC is network resilience. The partners also provide integrated security, visibility and…

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Sign Up for a Tour at the SOC at RSAC™ 2025 Conference

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Sign Up for a Tour at the SOC at RSAC™ 2025 Conference

Cisco and Endace are providing SOC Services to RSAC™ 2025 Conference, monitoring traffic on the Moscone wireless network for security threats. Experts will be using Cisco Security Cloud in the SOC, with the power of Cisco Breach Protection Suite and User Protection Suite, and Secure Firewall; with Splunk Enterprise Security as the platform. The SOC is also providing network observability with ThousandEyes. Incidents are investigated with Threat Intelligence, provided by Cisco Talos and other partners,…

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Mobile World Congress 2025: SOC in the Network Operations Center

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Mobile World Congress 2025: SOC in the Network Operations Center

Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona delivered on every promise – a record-breaking event with 109,000 attendees from 205 countries, with over 2,900 exhibitors, sponsors, and partners showcasing an impressive array of cutting‐edge topics, from 5G and IoT to Unified Security for the AI-driven Future. As always, Cisco’s presence showcased a suite of innovations, such as the latest secure connectivity solutions, demonstrated next‐gen wireless innovations, and made several high-profile media announcements that underscored our commitment…

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Mitigating the hidden risks of AI in security and SOCs

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Mitigating the hidden risks of AI in security and SOCs

AI is transforming both Security Operations Centers (SOCs) and security as a whole. Yet with new opportunities come new risks. One of the biggest challenges in security today is how to manage AI’s inherent unpredictability, especially for complex tasks. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at the specific hurdles of using AI in security (specifically in your SOC), and how a modular, focused approach can mitigate these risks.   The challenge of AI…

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The Benefits of a Broad and Open Integration Ecosystem

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Sign Up for a Tour at the SOC at RSAC™ 2025 Conference

An open integration approach for extended detection and response (XDR) empowers organizations to harness the full potential of their security ecosystems. This open approach provides security analysts with the agility to leverage the best tools and access the best information to protect their particular environments. This not only increases team efficiency but also the speed at which they can react to potential threats and reduces dwell time. Cisco XDR stands out in this arena by…

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The future of security operations depends on AI agents, not LLMs

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The future of security operations depends on AI agents, not LLMs

What are AI agents? “Is it an Agent, or just a Program?” is a widely cited paper which has seen more than 5,000 citations, highlighting the complexity of this intuitive question. Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, in their well-regarded AI textbook titled “Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach,” define an agent as “anything that can be viewed as perceiving its environment through sensors and acting upon that environment through actuators.” For example, a wall thermostat measures…

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