Cisco’s Jeetu Patel on Antares AI for Bug Hunting and Data Protection

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Jeetu Patel previews Antares, Cisco’s AI tool to hunt software bugs and safeguard customer data, and discusses protecting firms after the Hugging Face breach.

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Jeetu Patel, Cisco president and chief product officer, unveiled Antares, an artificial intelligence (AI) tool aimed at hunting software bugs and protecting customer data while discussing the Hugging Face breach tied to OpenAI models on Bloomberg. Security is where enterprises pay for trust, and Antares is Cisco trying to make AI a defensive moat instead of another liability. If it works, Cisco accelerates a long-term shift from boxes to higher-margin software and services; if it stumbles, it shows how messy productizing AI security can be for legacy vendors.