RSAC 2025 keynote: Cisco open-sources AI security tools

Cisco set the tone at Monday’s RSAC 2025 keynote by announcing a major open-source initiative aimed at securing the future of AI, while other speakers laid out how the industry must adapt to a rapidly changing battlefield.

Jeetu Patel, Cisco’s executive vice president and chief product officer, unveiled Foundation AI — a purpose-built, security-specific AI model trained on cybersecurity data. The model isn’t just open source in concept — Cisco is releasing the actual trained model weights as well, allowing researchers and developers to inspect, adapt and fine-tune it. Alongside that, the company is open-sourcing its full tooling framework, inviting the global security community to collaborate on safer, more transparent AI systems.

Patel emphasized the urgency: “The true enemy is not our competitors — it’s the adversary.”

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