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Cisco touts ‘Internet of Agents’ for secure AI agent collaboration

Network World

In a blog about the need for an Internet of Agents, Panday cited a real-world enterprise IT example: In enterprise IT, deploying a sales forecasting SaaS platform requires collaboration across multiple AI agents. Youre exchanging not just APIs across the internet. This third wave of AI promises to transform workflows wholesale.7

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2025 global network outage report and internet health check

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Internet report for Dec. Read on to see the latest analysis, and stop back next week for another update on the performance of cloud providers and ISPs. Note: We have archived prior-year outage updates, including our 2024 report , 2023 report and Covid-19 coverage. 30, 2024-Jan. 30, 2024.

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Cloud creates network blind spots, complicates problem resolution

Network World

As network environments become more complex, network teams struggle to gain visibility across internet and cloud components, citing blind spots and a lack of skilled workers as contributing factors to slow problem resolution, according to a Broadcom report.

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Fix for BGP routing insecurity ‘plagued by software vulnerabilities’ of its own, researchers find

Network World

Attack surface The underlying problem with the BGP protocol upon which internet routing today depends is that it was designed without what the authors describe as “cryptographic authentication of announcements.” Many of the problems are the same as with any software. “We Under BGP, there is no way to authenticate routing changes.

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Palo Alto Networks firewall bug being exploited by threat actors: Report

Network World

Admins with firewalls from Palo Alto Networks should make sure the devices are fully patched and the management interface blocked from open internet access after the discovery this week of a zero-day login authentication bypass in the PAN-OS operating system. If no devices are listed, then none have an internet-facing management interface.

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Cisco SVP talks agentic AI, quantum security and sustainable infrastructure

Network World

AGNTCY is also the underpinning of Ciscos Internet of Agents vision. Ciscos Internet of Agents describes standards-based, shared infrastructure components and an open-sourced, three-layer architecture that would enable quantum-safe, agent-to-agent communication.

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Software-defined perimeter: What it is and how it works

Network World

A growing number of organizations are drawing an invisible line around their internet-connected resources in an effort to keep attackers at bay. Called software-defined perimeter (SDP), it is based on the relatively simple idea of throwing a virtual barrier around servers, routers, printers, and other enterprise network components.

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