Cisco Live EMEA 2025: News, Views and Announcements

Every year, the Natilik team attends Cisco Live EMEA to hear all the latest and greatest updates, with this year’s being live in Amsterdam. Stay tuned to hear all the hot topics, key insights and major updates straight from our teams on the ground at the conference this year!

• Transformative integrations between Cisco and Splunk are taking visibility and threat detection to new heights. Cisco Secure Application for Splunk AppDynamics is feeding attack data into Splunk Enterprise Security all whilst leveraging real-time threat intelligence from Cisco Talos to take your visibility and security to new levels. Read more about it. Discover more about digital resiliency with Splunk’s GVP & Chief Strategy Advisor:

https://youtu.be/r553HBpuNJQ?si=99t5yIMjG1f27djv

• The innovation in Cisco ThousandEyes continues to thrive with the launch of its Traffic Insights solution. Available from March, on-premises network visibility will be entirely enhanced by correlating traffic flows with synthetic measurements for end-to-end digital experience assurance. Discover more.

https://youtu.be/9BxOKHY_HOQ

• Cisco Meraki’s capabilities have been enhanced with the new integration with Cisco XDR. This will transform the experience of Meraki users as XDR telemetry will now feature within the Meraki dashboard, simplifying and speeding up security investigations.
• It was also exciting to hear insight into the SnapAttack acquisition.
• AlgoSec launched its new Horizon Platform. Delve into it here:

https://youtu.be/P10Mp5OdBe0?si=DtG4EXQD8XWuKyGH

• Cisco evolves their already comprehensive Zero Trust offering by incorporating Hybrid Private Access for secure in-office experiences and Policy Assurance to prevent access disruptions.
• With Cisco at the forefront of innovation in the networking arena, it is now creating smarter more secure wireless networks through the introduction of Wi-Fi 7 access points for small to mid-size deployments and high-powered stackable access switches. Acting as an extension of your team, the new AI assistant for networks is ready to transform to take your network management to the next level.
• Cisco AI Assistant for Webex Contact Center is now generally available with AI-powered summaries, agent wellbeing insights, and Auto CSAT. The development doesn’t stop there, exciting additional features like real-time transcription will be coming in Q2 2025.
• Details on all of Cisco’s Future-Proofed Workplaces can be found here.
• Tour the Future-proofed Workplaces Lounge with Nick Gray, Solutions Engineer at Cisco:

https://youtu.be/afUdgGhAlEE?si=1Ij8RONk5SlXvnwo

• • • Cisco unveiled its Agile Services Networking architecture, revolutionising service provider networks with AI-driven automation, enhanced resilience, and cutting-edge Silicon One innovations to power the future of AI. Read about it here.
    • Cisco introduced the revolutionary new N9300 Series Smart Switches which combines Cisco’s world class networking and security capabilities into one device. Integrating AMD Pensando DPUs to embed services like Cisco Hypershield directly into the network, this new smart switch revolutionises data centre architecture for AI workloads. Delve into the update here.
    • Cisco’s new Hybrid Mesh Firewall is another groundbreaking advancement in the security space. This has been made possible through the integration of Hypershield into the new N9300 Smart Switch along with the expansion of Cisco’s AI server family with the Cisco UCS C845A M8. Find out more here.
    • Hear how Isovalent will integrate into Cisco HyperShield:

  https://youtu.be/4jFtY60Lb6Q?si=XeUO0VrI67-fwvRT

• Rob Eldridge, Security Solutions Director, Natilik discusses his take on the top security announcements of the week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye8ebm7tdEI

• Ian Anderson, UK Chief Technology Officer, highlights his key takeaways from partner day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mpV62MJAb0

• Emma Simpkin, Services Architect, Natilik and João Caldeano, Strategic Partner Manager and EPRS Managed Services Lead, Cisco talk about the exciting things going on in the world of managed services.

https://youtu.be/J9h3idy23Ck