At Cisco Live 2026, Cisco unveiled Cisco Cloud Control, a unified platform designed to help organizations manage, monitor, and secure their IT infrastructure in the emerging era of agentic AI.
Positioned as the foundation of Cisco’s new AgenticOps operating model, Cloud Control provides a single management platform that integrates networking, security, compute, observability, and collaboration services. The platform enables human operators and AI agents to work from the same data layer and operational context while keeping decision-making under human oversight.
Cisco Cloud Control introduces several AI-driven capabilities, including autonomous agents that can identify issues, analyze root causes, implement fixes, test changes, and verify outcomes. The platform also features Cisco AI Canvas, a collaborative workspace where teams and AI agents can investigate and resolve operational challenges using shared real-time data.
To support enterprise customization, Cloud Control Studio allows organizations to build AI agents, applications, and workflows using natural language prompts. The platform integrates with more than 50 third-party services, including AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud, ServiceNow, Slack, and PagerDuty.
Alongside Cloud Control, Cisco announced new security innovations designed for AI-powered environments. These include Live Protect, a runtime vulnerability protection system that shields supported infrastructure from newly discovered threats without requiring reboots or software upgrades, and Hybrid Mesh Firewall, which extends unified security controls across hybrid environments.
The company also outlined its roadmap for quantum-safe infrastructure, committing to enable post-quantum security capabilities across most of its core portfolio by the end of 2026. New products will launch with quantum-safe secure boot technology, while upcoming Quantum Ready Assessments will help organizations identify systems vulnerable to future “harvest now, decrypt later” attacks.
Cisco Cloud Control enters controlled availability in the United States immediately, with broader global availability planned at a later date.
The launch underscores Cisco’s strategy to combine AI-driven automation, cybersecurity, and infrastructure management into a unified platform capable of supporting increasingly autonomous enterprise environments.
