Cisco Secures AI Infrastructure With NVIDIA Bluefield DPUs
Cisco, Thursday, March 19th, 2026
AI is reshaping how we process data, solve complex problems, and deliver digital experiences. But your AI environment is only as secure as the infrastructure it runs on-and attackers know exactly where to look for weaknesses.
As you scale AI workloads closer to end users, agents, and machines, a critical challenge emerges: you must maximize GPU and CPU utilization while also defending against sophisticated, fast-moving threats.
Traditional security models struggle in these environments. Centralized firewall appliances can become traffic choke points that don't scale to AI-level throughput. Host-based software agents can also tax CPU resources you need for AI processing-and, in some cases, introduce operational risk in multi-tenant environments.