There’s nothing fairly just like the power of Cisco Associate Summit week! Wanting again on our time in San Diego, I’m reminded that partnership at Cisco isn’t only a technique, it’s our speciality. Each innovation, milestone, and buyer success story is powered by the power and resilience of our accomplice ecosystem. Collectively, we really safe what’s subsequent.
The spotlight for me this yr was seeing how our collective efforts are redefining what ‘safe’ means within the AI period. In keeping with the Cisco AI Readiness Index 2025, simply 14% of organizations really feel absolutely ready to comprehend the worth of AI. On the identical time, the 2025 Cisco Cybersecurity Readiness Index reveals that 86% of enterprise leaders skilled at the least one AI-related safety incident previously yr. It’s clear: we are able to now not merely react to threats, we should anticipate them, and the accomplice neighborhood makes all this doable.
Our bulletins and innovation shared final week and this week at Cisco Reside Melbourne are extra than simply expertise. We’re enabling our companions to construct AI-ready infrastructures and assist prospects confidently undertake new capabilities whereas staying safe. A number of examples:
- Multi-customer administration in Cisco Safety Cloud Management, designed particularly for Managed Service Suppliers (MSPs) to scale operations effectively, scale back friction, and speed up time-to-value.
- A brand new wave of alternative to assist companions and prospects modernize campus, department, and industrial networks for the AI period with safety in-built. Cisco Entry Supervisor fuses identification into the community, delivering full identity-based entry management natively by the Meraki Dashboard.
- New parts within the Cisco 360 Associate Program to empower companions to drive profitability with AI and safety, together with the new Specializations and Cisco Associate Incentive bonuses, introduced at Associate Summit.
As we glance forward, I’m impressed by the alternatives we’re creating collectively. We’ll maintain investing in your profitability, incentivizing on looking and increasing behaviors, and supporting you with the precise safety experience to show our shared imaginative and prescient into actual affect. The way forward for safety isn’t one thing we construct alone, it’s one thing we create, and safe, collectively.
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