Defending at the Speed of AI
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AI Is Ready. Trust Is the Next Step.
AI already moves trillions of dollars in milliseconds. So why won't companies let it send a customer email?
That gap says everything about where enterprise AI really is right now.
In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Erik Anderson, CEO of Singularity University and Founder of WestRiver Group, joins WWT to break down what's actually holding organizations back. It's not the technology. It's trust.
Building a Quantum-Safe Foundation: WWT and Cisco Accelerate Post-Quantum Readiness
In a rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape, advances in quantum computing pose a significant threat to current encryption methods.
Zscaler CTF: Code Blue
Zscaler delivers a cloud‑native security platform to protect and enable modern organizations. This Capture the Flag event highlights core Zscaler technologies, giving you the chance to test your skills against real‑world threats.
Tools Utilized in the game:
🔷 Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) – secure web gateway, threat detection, and traffic inspection
🔷 Zscaler Private Access (ZPA) – zero trust access to internal applications
You and your team defend Sea Cure Health, a healthcare organization under attack by the APT group SCRUBzero. Suspicious traffic, phishing lures, and SQL injection attempts threaten patient data. Your mission: investigate alerts, trace attacker actions, and use Zscaler technologies to stop exfiltration and secure critical systems.
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WWT Co-Founder and CEO Jim Kavanaugh Guests on Thirty Minute Mentors
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Everyone Sees the Risk. Nobody Owns It.
You can hear the warning signs.
Security teams see them. Infrastructure teams see them. Data teams, compliance teams and AI leaders all see them.
The problem is they're often speaking different languages.
As organizations race to deploy agents and AI-powered workflows, a new challenge is emerging. The hardest questions aren't technical. They're organizational. Who owns the risk? Who makes the decisions? And who's responsible when AI starts operating across systems, teams and business functions?
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Anthropic's forthcoming Mythos model wasn't built to hack. It just learned how — and it's good at it. In this AI Proving Ground Podcast episode, former NSA cybersecurity director Rob Joyce and WWT cyber leader Kent Noyes break down what Mythos means for your security posture and what the defender's playbook looks like now.
WWT — Frontier Model Readiness: 45 Days of Lessons from Mythos
Join WWT for this webinar as we share the latest field learnings across Mythos, and more recently announced Daybreak, and MDASH — and what they mean for your organization's security posture.
The frontier AI threat landscape has shifted faster than most organizations anticipated. Forty-five days after Mythos, two new agentic harnesses — OpenAI's Daybreak and Microsoft's MDASH — have introduced meaningful capability jumps that demand a fresh look at your readiness posture.
In this session, WWT brings together updated research, field learnings, and a differentiated service offering designed specifically to help organizations move from awareness to action. You'll hear directly from practitioners who have been working this problem every day — and walk away with a clear picture of where WWT can help you accelerate your readiness posture.
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How AI Is Rewriting Customer Expectations Across Healthcare, Utilities and Retail
Customer expectations are shifting faster than most organizations can respond. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, leaders from healthcare, utilities and retail break down how AI is redefining what "good" customer experience looks like — and how their industries are rethinking service models, operational workflows and human touchpoints to keep pace with a new, AI-shaped standard.
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Experience Cisco AI Defense in an interactive Capture the Flag (CTF), designed to showcase how Cisco is securing the future of GenAI.
Cyber Range - Initiation
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WWT Agentic Network Assistant
Explore the WWT Agentic Network Assistant, a browser-based AI tool that converts natural language into Cisco CLI commands, executes them across multiple devices, and delivers structured analysis. Using a local LLM, it streamlines troubleshooting, summarizes device health, and compares configs, demonstrating the future of intuitive, AI driven network operations.
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Cisco Optical DWDM Sandbox
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Partner POV | Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us
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Partner POV | Stop Watching. Start Building: Master Cloudflare Application Security in a Live Sandbox.
Dive into Cloudflare's Schedulable Labs for an immersive, hands-on security experience. Master multi-layered defenses, from DNS to AI firewalls, and transform theory into practice. Limited to 8 participants, this workshop offers real-world attack simulations and automation techniques to enhance operational efficiency and modern threat protection. Secure your spot today.