Cisco Announces New Strategic AI Initiatives in the Middle East
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These new initiatives place Cisco at the center of the AI revolution in the Gulf, providing world class and trusted technology together with other Cisco partners.
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Cisco Expands Partnership with Saudi Arabia to Power the AI Future
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Cisco to Join HUMAIN’s Initiative to Build the Kingdom’s Future AI Infrastructure
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G42 and Cisco to Extend Strategic Partnership to Drive AI Innovation and Infrastructure Development
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The MoU builds on G42’s growing ecosystem as it accelerates its efforts to scale AI infrastructure and innovation
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Bold moves, real progress: AI leadership in the Middle East
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The Middle East is a region uniquely positioned to lead in AI – not only because of its economic power, but because of bold public-private partnerships, decisive leadership, and the ability to turn ambition into action.
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Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Arbitrary File Creation Vulnerability
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A vulnerability in the application data endpoints of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, formerly Cisco SD-WAN vManage, could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to write arbitrary files to an affected system.
This vulnerability is due to improper validation of requests to APIs. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious requests to an API within the affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to conduct directory traversal attacks and write files to an arbitrary location on the affected system.

Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.
This advisory is available at the following link:https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-sdwanarbfile-2zKhKZwJ

Security Impact Rating: Medium


CVE: CVE-2025-20187

Cisco Reports Third Quarter Earnings
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Cisco reported third quarter revenue of $14.1 billion, net income on a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis of $2.5 billion or $0.62 per share, and non-GAAP net income of $3.8 billion or $0.96 per share.
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Updates to Cisco’s Executive Leadership Team
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With the announcement of Scott Herren's retirement, Mark Patterson will step into the role as Cisco’s Chief Financial Officer on day one of fiscal year 2026. Jeetu Patel has also been promoted to President and Chief Product Officer.
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The Future is Coming Faster than You Think
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