Cisco unveiled Cloud Control at Cisco Live in Las Vegas on June 2, 2026 — a unified platform where humans and AI agents share a single command surface to manage and defend critical IT infrastructure. The launch establishes Cisco's AgenticOps operating model and lands as the company races to harden enterprise networks for what it calls "the Mythos era" of frontier AI threats.
One platform for humans and agents
Cloud Control collapses Cisco networking, security, compute, observability and collaboration into one login and one data layer. Cross-domain telemetry, purpose-built models including the new Deep Network Model — grounded in 40 years of Cisco operational data — and trusted agents share the same context. The new Cisco AI Canvas gives operators and agents a multiplayer workspace; Cloud Control Studio lets customers build their own apps and agents from natural language, with OpenAI Codex built in.
Live Protect and the quantum-safe pivot
Cisco also expanded its Live Protect runtime patching to shield N9000 switches from new vulnerabilities without reboots or downtime, with campus and branch smart switches and secure routers next. Every new campus, branch and data center router, switch and firewall now ships with quantum-safe secure boot by default. The company also rolled out Quantum Ready Assessments to identify which assets are most exposed to "harvest now, decrypt later" attacks, available globally in July 2026.
Inside the security stack
As a charter member of Anthropic's Project Glasswing and OpenAI's Daybreak, Cisco stress-tests its own products with the latest frontier models to find the weaknesses adversaries would. Cisco's recently open-sourced Foundry Security Spec lets any defender apply the same rigor. The Hybrid Mesh Firewall extends unified protection across networks, applications and Cisco and third-party firewalls — limiting blast radius when something goes wrong.
Availability and ecosystem
Cloud Control enters Controlled Availability in the United States immediately, with Global Availability to follow. The platform ships with native connectors to more than 50 third-party tools, including AWS, Linear, Microsoft, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, Slack and Google Cloud — which now includes Wiz. Cisco IQ, the AI-powered services delivery vehicle, is fully integrated and adds on-premises deployment for data-sovereignty customers. Cisco joins a wave of vendors — including agentic-AI security defenders and SD-WAN patchers — rebuilding enterprise infrastructure for AI agents.
Reporting based on coverage from Cisco Newsroom, Cybersecurity Magazine and industry analysts.