Cisco Boosts XDR Platform, Splunk With Agentic AI

Cisco announced agentic AI enhancements to Cisco XDR and Splunk, including Instant Attack Verification to autonomously investigate and prioritize incidents, new XDR Forensics and XDR Storyboard features for faster, clearer investigations, and the Foundation AI effort delivering an open-source security reasoning model (foundation-sec-8b) based on Meta Llama 3.1 8B pretrained on curated cybersecurity datasets; the announcement also notes integrations with ServiceNow SecOps and deployment considerations for constrained environments.