Connected, Protected, Ready: Securing Partner Growth in the AI Era

[ad_1] There’s nothing fairly just like the power of Cisco Associate Summit week! Trying again on our time in San Diego, I’m reminded that partnership at Cisco isn’t only a technique, it’s our speciality. Each innovation, milestone, and buyer success story is powered by the power and resilience of our associate ecosystem. Collectively, we really safe what’s subsequent.

The spotlight for me this yr was seeing how our collective efforts are redefining what ‘safe’ means within the AI period. In line with the Cisco AI Readiness Index 2025, simply 14% of organizations really feel absolutely ready to appreciate the worth of AI. On the identical time, the 2025 Cisco Cybersecurity Readiness Index reveals that 86% of enterprise leaders skilled not less than one AI-related safety incident previously yr. It’s clear: we will not merely react to threats, we should anticipate them, and the associate neighborhood makes all this doable.

Our bulletins and innovation shared final week and this week at Cisco Stay Melbourne are extra than simply know-how. We’re enabling our companions to construct AI-ready infrastructures and assist clients confidently undertake new capabilities whereas staying safe. A number of examples:

Multi-customer administration in Cisco Safety Cloud Management, designed particularly for Managed Service Suppliers (MSPs) to scale operations effectively, scale back friction, and speed up time-to-value. A brand new wave of alternative to assist companions and clients modernize campus, department, and industrial networks for the AI period with safety in-built. Cisco Entry Supervisor fuses id into the community, delivering full identity-based entry management natively by way of the Meraki Dashboard. New parts within the Cisco 360 Associate Program to empower companions to drive profitability with AI and safety , together with the new Specializations and Cisco Associate Incentive bonuses, introduced at Associate Summit.

As we glance forward, I’m impressed by the alternatives we’re creating collectively. We’ll preserve investing in your profitability, incentivizing on looking and increasing behaviors, and supporting you with the correct safety experience to show our shared imaginative and prescient into actual influence. The way forward for safety isn’t one thing we construct alone, it’s one thing we create, and safe, collectively.