Cisco unveiled a comprehensive suite of AI-driven network security and data center infrastructure solutions at Cisco Live 2025, emphasizing the growing importance of agentic AI in enterprise environments. The company introduced new AI Defense and Hypershield products designed to provide real-time threat detection, runtime protection, and zero-trust security for AI workloads across data centers and edge networks. Cisco's strategy leverages its partnership with NVIDIA and incorporates capabilities from its recent Splunk acquisition to enhance AI adoption support and cybersecurity. Cisco President Jeetu Patel highlighted the transition into an agentic era where AI agents autonomously complete tasks, increasing demands on compute power, networking, and security infrastructure. Additionally, NTT Data announced new software-defined infrastructure services to help enterprises modernize architectures using Cisco products. Industry experts note that AI is transforming cybersecurity by introducing complex, continuous cyberattacks and creating invisible, non-human identities that traditional security measures cannot detect. Organizations are urged to adopt AI-enabled defenses to proactively identify and mitigate vulnerabilities. Webinars and thought leadership from cybersecurity professionals emphasize securing AI agents running on secret accounts and redefining identity security through proactive, intelligent, and autonomous AI capabilities.