Cisco has unveiled Cisco Cloud Control, a unified platform designed to help organizations manage, monitor, and defend critical IT infrastructure in an increasingly AI-driven world.
Announced at Cisco Live US 2026 in Las Vegas, the platform serves as the foundation of Cisco’s AgenticOps vision, bringing human operators and AI agents together within a single operational environment. The company says the platform is designed to help organizations operate and secure critical infrastructure at machine speed while keeping humans in control of governance and decision-making.
With a single login, Cisco Cloud Control provides visibility across networking, security, compute, observability, and collaboration environments. It also integrates with a broad ecosystem of third-party platforms including AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud, ServiceNow, Slack, PagerDuty, Linear, and Wiz.
Building the Agentic Enterprise
At the core of Cisco Cloud Control is a unified management plane that brings together a customer’s technology estate into a single environment.
The platform combines cross-domain telemetry from networking, security, observability, collaboration, and other systems, allowing both human operators and AI agents to work from the same operational context. Cisco says this shared data layer enables organizations to address key priorities such as uptime, AI agent behavior, security posture, and operational efficiency.
Cisco Cloud Control also incorporates purpose-built AI models, including Cisco’s Deep Network Model, which is trained on more than four decades of operational networking data.
Another key component is the use of trusted AI agents capable of following a structured workflow from detection to resolution.
Building Apps and Agents with Natural Language
Cisco is also introducing Cloud Control Studio, a development environment that allows organizations to create their own applications, workflows, and AI agents using natural-language prompts.
The platform includes Agent Builder and App Builder, enabling customers to build custom agents and applications while connecting to more than 50 third-party platforms and tools.
Security at Machine Speed
Alongside Cloud Control, Cisco announced several security innovations aimed at addressing the shrinking window between vulnerability discovery and exploitation.
The company is expanding Live Protect, a runtime protection capability that acts as a digital immune system for supported Cisco products. The technology allows organizations to shield systems from newly discovered vulnerabilities without requiring reboots, upgrades, or maintenance windows.
Cisco also highlighted Hybrid Mesh Firewall, which extends security policy enforcement across networks, applications, and both Cisco and third-party firewalls.
Protecting the Future of AI Operations
As AI agents become part of the enterprise workforce, Cisco says organizations must also address the risks associated with autonomous systems. The company is continuing to expand its AI Defense portfolio, Zero Trust capabilities for agents, and Agentic Security Operations Center initiatives.
Preparing for the Quantum Era
Cisco outlined several initiatives aimed at helping organizations prepare for quantum computing. These include quantum-safe communications capabilities across much of its core portfolio by the end of 2026, Quantum Ready Assessments, and a new Quantum Resilience Framework designed to help enterprises prepare for post-quantum cryptography.
Cisco IQ and Long-Term Resilience
Cisco also announced new capabilities for Cisco IQ, its AI-powered services platform. Fully integrated into Cisco Cloud Control, Cisco IQ provides AI-driven insights, resilience playbooks, infrastructure modernization guidance, and peer benchmarking tools.
The company also introduced Resilient Infrastructure Services, a framework designed to help organizations understand and mitigate risks associated with frontier AI models and evolving cyber threats.
“AI agents reason and act continuously at software speed, and that changes everything about how we scale, manage, and defend our critical infrastructure,” said Jeetu Patel, president and chief product officer of Cisco.