‘You can no longer do things at human scale’: Cisco releases AI agent botnet that works on your company’s behalf

Cisco launches Cloud Control AI defense suite
Companies are encouraged to deploy bot armies
Marketplace integrates coding tools like Codex

Cisco wants companies to be ready when malicious actors inevitably start using Mythos in their cyberattacks. In this context, being ready means having your own bot army, and preferably one provided by Cisco itself.

Earlier this week, the networking giant announced a new suite of tools called Cisco Cloud Control. These tools will enable companies to build their own army of AI agents tasked with monitoring the systems and blocking any exploitation attempts.

“You can no longer do things at a human scale,” said DJ Sampath, senior vice president and general manager of AI software and platform at Cisco. Pakinomist. “It has to be machine scale from an operational perspective.”

Preparation for Mythos

Cisco claims that companies will want to use AI coding tools to build out these bots, which is why it’s rolling out a marketplace where users can choose different solutions, such as OpenAI’s Codex. This one, for example, will be embedded directly into the Cloud Control platform, and others are likely to be added as well.

The suite is now available in North America, while the third-party tools marketplace should be released in the second half of the year. Cisco is currently working on the economy as they want to cut back on sales. It’s just not yet clear how big a cut is:

“We are working through the economy,” Sampath added. “⁠You have to expect that we will have some economics that favor us because it costs non-trivial amounts to be able to utilize all these parts.”

In early April of this year, Anthropic released Mythos Preview, a cybersecurity-oriented AI model that was reportedly able to surface decades-old vulnerabilities in fully patched systems used by some of the largest companies today. Not only that, but it was also able to create working exploits, which is why Anthropic decided not to release it to the public yet.

However, after more than two months of lockdown, it seems that Mythos could see the light of day in the coming weeks.

Via Pakinomist