On the ‘Techfluential’ podcast, Cisco EVP Liz Centoni and former Humana CIO and Capital One executive Sam Deshpande discuss how moving AI into real-world use requires fundamentally rethinking how work gets done
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Talking women in tech leadership and marketing in the AI era with Carrie Palin
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AB talks with Cisco CMO Carrie Palin about her leadership journey, building high-performing teams, and how AI is transforming marketing and customer outcomes.
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How agentic AI (and ETs!) can be a force for IT
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Cisco’s Galaxy Mode for AI Assistant showed how IT can interact with agentic teammates in a fun, natural way. But the real magic is in the innovation behind it.
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Introducing Antares: Highly efficient open weight AI models for vulnerability localization
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Cisco releases a family of security SLMs purpose-built for one of the hardest, most time-consuming and expensive problems in security.
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In the AI era, cyber defense needs a new playbook
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AI is compressing the time between cyber threats and attacks. Cisco's brief explores why organizations need a continuous defense model to stay secure.
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Jeetu Patel, Cisco President: Fortt Knox Innovation Lab
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At AMD’s Advancing AI event, Cisco product chief Jeetu Patel argues inferencing is shifting from spiky chatbots to always-on agents, driving “deskside” devices that run hundreds of agents beside your laptop.
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Navigating AI Tokenomics: from cost uncertainty to operational scale
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Scale AI by mastering tokenomics. Align high-velocity innovation with budget oversight to mitigate risk and ensure sustainable production.
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Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Software Static Credential Vulnerability
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-fmc-static-cred-BET3Cjh?vs_f=Cisco%20Security%20Advisory%26vs_cat=Security%20Intelligence%26vs_type=RSS%26vs_p=Cisco%20Secure%20Firewall%20Management%20Center%20Software%20Static%20Credential%20Vulnerability%26vs_k=1

A vulnerability in the web interface of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to log in to an affected device using a low-privileged account to access sensitive data within the impacted systems.
This vulnerability is due to the presence of static user credentials for a low-privileged account. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using the account to log in to an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to log in to the affected system and access sensitive data as the low-privileged user. 
Note: If the FMC management interface does not have public internet access, the attack surface that is associated with this vulnerability is reduced.  
Cisco has assigned this security advisory a Security Impact Rating (SIR) of High rather than Medium as the score indicates. The reason is that this vulnerability can be used with other Cisco Secure FMC Software vulnerabilities to elevate privileges.

Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability. 
This advisory is available at the following link:
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-fmc-static-cred-BET3Cjh

Security Impact Rating: High


CVE: CVE-2026-20316