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Securing the AI Frontier: Cisco’s 2025 Threat Report Reveals Readiness Gaps | Ep64
In this Deep Edge episode, host Ray Mota sits down with Cisco’s VP of AI Products, Anand Raghavan, to unpack the 2025 State of AI Security report. With 72 % of enterprises already running AI in production but only 13 % feeling prepared to secure it, the conversation probes today’s most pressing blind spots—from “Sleepy Pickle” supply-chain exploits and fine-tuning–induced jailbreaks to the surge of autonomous agents that widen the threat surface.
Together they explore why traditional cyber fundamentals still matter, how a tidal wave of AI-related legislation could speed (or stall) innovation, and what a verifiable AI supply-chain “safety seal” might look like. Anand closes with a clear, actionable playbook: boost staff AI-security literacy, illuminate shadow-AI usage, validate models before deployment, and guard them at runtime—so you can accelerate innovation without inviting catastrophe. Tune in to get ahead of the next wave of AI-driven risk.
Download: 2025 Annual Report The State of AI Security
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/state-of-ai-security.html
Video Link:
https://youtu.be/iEkN0-OjIwI
Anand's bio:
Anand Raghavan VICE PRESIDENT OF PRODUCTS, AI
As VP of Products, AI at Cisco, Anand loves the excitement of working with world-class teams to build and market game-changing products. Anand was the cofounder and Chief Product Officer of Armorblox, the industry's first GPT-powered protection against targeted email attacks. Cisco acquired Armorblox in July 2023 to bring safe and secure generative AI powered assistant and automation experiences to Cisco customers. Prior to Armorblox, Anand launched ThoughtSpot out of stealth mode and built and ran product marketing and product management teams there. Anand was a founding team member and product manager at Blue Jeans Network, helping to grow it from four employees to 200+ employees and 2,000+ customers. Before that, he held several engineering roles, including six years at NVIDIA.
Anand has a B.Tech. in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, an M.S. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated with honors and was named a Palmer Scholar.