Protecting AI Infrastructure
Jeetu Patel
RSA Conference 2025 · Day 2 · West Stage
Cisco CPO Jeetu Patel argues that AI introduces an entirely new class of security risks — rooted in the non-deterministic nature of AI models — that the industry must address on two parallel fronts: securing AI systems themselves and using AI to mount defenses at machine scale. To accelerate the latter, Cisco unveiled Foundation AI, a purpose-built, open-source security intelligence model designed to close the specialization gap that has kept AI lagging behind other industries in the security domain. ---
AI review
Cisco's CPO delivers a polished product keynote dressed in academic framing — the non-determinism argument is real but not novel, and the Foundation AI announcement is vendor launch theater, not conference content. The HarmBench DeepSeek numbers are the only technically specific data point in the whole talk, and they're released to justify a product Cisco just shipped. Skip it.