Episode 450 - Connecting and protecting in the age of AI

In today’s security world, there are numerous security solutions that can limit access to company data and IT resources and lock down access. However, when it comes to using AI apps and their back-end models, the answer is not so simple.

We speak with Carl Solder, Chief Technology Officer - Cisco Australia/New Zealand and get his insights into the challenge that Cisco saw looming on the horizon years ago and has culminated in a brand-new solution called Cisco AI Defence.

Prior to this role, Carl was Cisco’s Vice President of Engineering for the Enterprise Networking and Cloud Engineering organisation at Cisco HQ in San Jose, California. In this role he was responsible for Technical Strategy for the Enterprise Network and Cloud portfolio. His portfolio included the Catalyst Routing, Switching and Wireless platforms, the Intent Based Networking Software Innovations around Automation, Assurance, Machine

Learning and Artificial Intelligence as well as the Policy, Identity and Segmentation Software solutions that include Cisco’s Identity Services Engine (ISE).

Through his time at Cisco, Carl has also held various Engineering leadership roles in Cisco HQ San Jose and served as a Distinguished Engineer working on early developments in the area of Mass Scale Data Centre Architectures, OpenFlow and Software Defined Networking.

With more than 35 years of technical, business and sales leadership experience in the ICT industry, Carl has a diverse ICT background that provides great insight into emerging market transitions.

Further Reading/Watching

Cisco AI summit: https://www.ciscoaisummit.com/

AI defence: https://newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsroom/en/us/a/y2025/m01/cisco-unveils-ai-defense-to-secure-the-ai-transformation-of-enterprises.html

OWASP Top Ten vulnerabilities for AI white paper -https://genaisecurityproject.com/resource/owasp-top-10-for-llm-applications-2025/

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