Network Solutions, Inc.

10/11/2026

Your operations no longer stop at the front door. Neither should your network. A reliable, secure network keeps daily operations running smoothly and protects sensitive data from costly cyberattacks. That reliability has to extend beyond the building’s walls. Loading docks, utility rooms, and parking garages need the same connectivity and protection as the buildings they support.

Outdoor and uncarpeted spaces don’t have to be blind spots. Cisco now extends full Meraki dashboard management to the IE3500 Rugged Series, bringing your entire network under one trusted view.

10/10/2026

When AI Writes the Code, Who Owns the Security Decisions?

AI is changing software development by compressing work that once took days into hours. Code can be generated, tested, refactored, and documented faster, allowing development teams to deliver functionality at a pace that was previously difficult to achieve.

A pe*******on test found an AI-assisted financial app could restore applicant access from a GUID without independent proof of control.

10/10/2026

ARTEX AI, Claude agents used in cyberattacks on South Korean banks

A Chinese-speaking hacker launched cyberattacks that shook the South Korean financial sector earlier this month, using the ARTEX AI pe*******on testing suite and Claude agents.

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10/09/2026

Beyond Volume: Countering the Stealth Tactics of Modern DDoS Attacks

In our previous post, we explored how the network edge has become the primary shield against the hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks that defined 2025. However, for the modern CxO, the threat landscape has shifted. It is no longer just about the sheer size of the “pipe” being hit; attackers have evolved beyond brute force, employing tactical stealth methodologies to bypass traditional defenses.

Today, we examine the three most disruptive trends to emerge in the last year—Pulse Attacks, Carpet Bombing, and Outbound attacks—and how Cisco Secure DDoS Edge Protection leverages advanced machine learning to neutralize them before they even register on traditional monitoring systems.

Modern DDoS attacks have evolved into stealthy, tactical threats that bypass legacy defenses. Learn how Cisco Secure DDoS Edge Protection leverages real-time machine learning to detect and mitigate sophisticated DDoS attacks at network edge.

10/09/2026

How to keep AI agents within their permissions

AI agents should do more on their own. Who has the time or attention span to approve every command? And watching agents do the work they’re asked to do is mind-numbingly boring.

But agents do need boundaries, especially in corporate environments. Without a clear limit on what they can do, agentic flows tend to use all available access.

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10/08/2026

Denmark Says Attackers Accessed CPR Data for 8.8 Million People via Company Account

Unauthorized parties have gained access to the names, addresses, and personal identification numbers of about 8.8 million people, living and dead, in Denmark's national population register, the country's digitalization ministry said on October 5

They used a private Danish company's lawful right to look up records in the Central Person Register (CPR). The ministry has told people never to give passwords or other confidential information to anyone who calls or emails, even someone who seems to know those details.

Denmark says unauthorized parties accessed names, addresses, and CPR numbers for about 8.8 million people via a private company.

10/08/2026

"Applications should be able to state what they need from a quantum network and receive it. Operators should not have to deliver that service device by device, link by link, command by command.

Give me entanglement between these endpoints across a scale-out fabric, at this fidelity, at this rate, when I need it and for as long as I need it.

The network should figure out the rest, retrying automatically until the entanglement succeeds, holding the tight timing that quantum operations demand, never reading the quantum information it carries, and doing all of it across many applications and tenants, whether the workload is computing, security, or sensing."

Check out the full article!

Cisco introduces the Quantum Network Controller, a research prototype bringing entanglement as a service to heterogeneous, distributed quantum networks today.

10/07/2026

AI keeps getting smarter. But intelligence may not be the thing that determines how quickly enterprises let it take action.

Trust may be the real limiting factor.

As AI agents move from answering questions to accessing systems, deploying code, changing configurations and acting on our behalf, organizations need to know what an agent is doing, what it’s allowed to do, and whether its actions make sense in context.

Cisco’s Jeetu Patel makes an interesting case for treating that as an engineering problem. Cisco and NVIDIA are working on distributed controls that can follow agents across networks, clouds, applications and identities—providing policy and enforcement wherever the agent operates.

The smarter agents become, the more important their guardrails become.
Read the Cisco article https://hubs.ly/Q04zxgH50

Trust, not raw intelligence, will drive AI adoption as Cisco and NVIDIA build context-aware, distributed controls for safe enterprise agents at scale.

10/07/2026

For years, we built networks and then added security around them.

That line is getting harder to draw.

Across Cisco’s architecture, switches, identity, segmentation, security platforms, telemetry and AI-assisted operations are increasingly working together. The network can help identify what’s connecting, determine what it should be allowed to access, enforce policy closer to the traffic, and provide the context needed to detect and respond faster.

Our latest blog looks at what happens when the network itself becomes part of the security system—and why that matters for organizations trying to protect users, devices, applications and AI workloads across increasingly distributed environments.
The network doesn’t just carry traffic anymore. It helps defend it.

Read the article https://hubs.ly/Q04zwH_j0

10/06/2026

“Cloud first” was a useful strategy. Experience has made the decision more nuanced.

Public cloud remains an essential part of modern IT, but every workload has different requirements for cost, performance, security, compliance, recovery and latency. AI is adding even more variables, including GPU requirements, data privacy, inference latency and specialized networking.

Our latest article looks at a workload-first approach: choosing public cloud, private cloud, on-premises infrastructure, SaaS or the edge based on what each application actually needs.

The cloud is no longer the destination. Placement is the strategy.

Read the article https://hubs.ly/Q04zmdSy0