Outshift

Outshift is an incubation engine from Cisco , designed to explore new technologies and develop solutions for the next generation of technology teams. The platform helps accelerate the adoption of generative AI, cloud native and quantum computing, and offers practical applications for different industries.

Outshift's suite of products and tools are designed to help enterprises improve their abilities:

• Motific: A GenAI software solution that gives companies centralized control and governance so they can better understand costs and usage and deploy it faster.
• Panoptica: A cloud application security platform that gives companies a unified and collaborative way to manage security, including remediation and attack path analysis.
• Recon.cloud: A free cloud security reconnaissance tool that lets you scan domains and save results and track changes.

Outshift also conducts research in areas like AI/ML, cybersecurity and quantum networking, including partnerships with universities to advance the state of the art in those areas. The platform also houses open-source projects, like QNetLab, which lets people share simulations and quantum network tutorials, and OpenClarity, an open-source foundation for improving cloud native application security and observability.

Outshift's approach is designed to focus on innovation that produces results, not just research that produces papers. It's designed to turn emerging technologies into useful products. By offering enterprise-scale tools and resources, Outshift hopes to speed the adoption of new technology and make it more accessible to more people.

Published on July 27, 2024