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What an Autonomous AI Attack Leaves on the Wire 

For years, an “AI attack” meant a phishing email with better grammar. What Israeli security firm Dream disclosed on

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Configuration

Your Cisco UDP Director Is End-of-Life. Here’s the Drop-In Replacement.

Cisco Secure Network Analytics UDP Director — the product that started life as the Lancope Flow Replicator and spent

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AI

MCP is about to be table stakes. The real decision comes next.

Somewhere above you, a decision has been made that the company is going to use AI. It may already

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AI

Your AI is only as good as how far back it can see 

An AI connected to your network can only answer for the stretch of time your data still covers. Point

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Configuration

What Is MCP, and Why Is Everyone Suddenly Talking About It? 

MCP stands for Model Context Protocol, an open standard that lets AI assistants connect directly to the tools and

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Network Security

Why AI Just Broke Cybersecurity’s Oldest Defense 

For forty years, one defense held against nearly every cyberattack: a person who could sense that something felt wrong.

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Update

Your Team Already Has the AI. Now It Can See the Network. 

Today we are launching Plixer 19.8. If you spend your day in a NOC or a SOC, you have

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General

Cisco Live 2026: The Agentic Era Is Here and Your Network Is Already Behind

By Adam Howarth, Data Scientist and Field Engineer at Plixer Cisco Live 2026 was not a conference about what’s

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