The Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) openVuln API is a RESTful API that allows customers to obtain Cisco Security Vulnerability information in different machine-consumable formats
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{
"service_type": "platform",
"base_url": "https://cisco.com",
"auth_method": "none",
"auth_config": {},
"endpoints": [
{
"name": "Cisco.com LLM Data Center Priority Pages",
"path": "/llms.txt",
"method": "GET",
"description": "Provides a machine-readable index of priority product pages for the data center domain, including application-centric infrastructure, Nexus platform, Intersight, HyperFabric AI, and Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure."
},
{
"name": "Application Centric Infrastructure Product Page",
"path": "/site/us/en/products/networking/cloud-networking/application-centric-infrastructure/index.html.md",
"method": "GET",
"description": "Markdown version of the ACI product page covering data center networking, app deployment acceleration, and downtime minimization."
},
{
"name": "Nexus Platform Product Page",
"path": "/site/us/en/products/networking/cloud-networking/nexus-platform/index.html.md",
"method": "GET",
"description": "Markdown version of the Nexus platform page covering provisioning, managing, and operating data center networks."
},
{
"name": "Intersight Platform Product Page",
"path": "/site/us/en/products/computing/hybrid-cloud-operations/intersight-platform/index.html.md",
"method": "GET",
"description": "Markdown version of the Intersight management platform page covering analytics for Cisco and third-party IT infrastructure and environment automation."
},
{
"name": "HyperFabric AI Product Page",
"path": "/site/us/en/products/networking/data-center-networking/nexus-hyperfabric/hyperfabric-ai/index.html.md",
"method": "GET",
"description": "Markdown version of the HyperFabric AI page covering cloud-managed full-stack AI infrastructure for private cloud AI."
},
{
"name": "Nutanix Hyperconverged Infrastructure Product Page",
"path": "/site/us/en/products/computing/hyperconverged/nutanix/index.html.md",
"method": "GET",
"description": "Markdown version of the Nutanix HCI page covering integration of Cisco servers and storage with the Nutanix multicloud platform."
}
],
"pricing_model": {
"type": "unknown",
"details": {
"note": "The Cisco PSIRT openVuln API and Cisco product pages are primarily documentation and information resources. Pricing for Cisco products and platforms is enterprise-scale and typically requires direct engagement with Cisco or authorized partners. No public pricing information is provided on the listed pages."
}
},
"rate_limits": {
"note": "No rate limit information is provided in the supplied content. As a documentation and product overview resource rather than a transactional API, conventional rate limits may not apply to the llms.txt pages, though Cisco may enforce fair use or bot access policies at the web infrastructure level."
},
"capabilities": [
"Machine-readable product and documentation index via llms.txt",
"Markdown-rendered product pages for data center networking and computing",
"Information about Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) for data center networking",
"Information about the Nexus Platform for data center network provisioning and management",
"Information about the Intersight Platform for hybrid cloud operations and infrastructure analytics",
"Information about HyperFabric AI for cloud-managed AI infrastructure",
"Information about Nutanix Hyperconverged Infrastructure integrated with Cisco servers and storage",
"Access to Cisco Security Vulnerability information via the PSIRT openVuln RESTful API (not fully detailed in supplied content)"
],
"raw_analysis": "The supplied information describes the Cisco PSIRT openVuln API, a RESTful API for obtaining Cisco Security Vulnerability information in machine-consumable formats, and also provides additional content from https://www.cisco.com/llms.txt. The llms.txt file acts as an llm.txt-style index for data center priority pages, listing markdown endpoints for ACI, Nexus, Intersight, HyperFabric AI, and Nutanix HCI. This suggests an emerging focus on providing machine-readable, Markdown-formatted product information for AI and automation consumption. The PSIRT openVuln API itself is a well-established Cisco security service, but the supplied content does not include its detailed endpoint list, authentication mechanisms (commonly OAuth 2.0 client credentials for Cisco APIs), rate limits, or pricing. Therefore, from the available evidence, this service is best categorized as a platform/documentation information resource with an associated RESTful security vulnerability API. The base URL is given as https://cisco.com, and the llms.txt and related markdown pages are publicly accessible without authentication. No REST endpoints for the openVuln API are explicitly provided, but the platform clearly has API-based capabilities. Maturity: C3/3 tests passed
| Test | Endpoint | Status | Latency |
|---|---|---|---|
| website_uptime | GET / | 200 | 286ms |
| robots_txt | GET /robots.txt | 200 | 204ms |
| llms_txt | GET /llms.txt | 200 | 286ms |
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"overall": 62,
"dimensions": {
"token_efficiency": 6.0,
"first_try_success": 6.0,
"response_parseability": 7.0,
"error_clarity": 5.0,
"doc_quality": 7.0,
"auth_simplicity": 3.0,
"latency": 9.5,
"consistency": 8.0
},
"pricing_normalized": {},
"issues": [
"No public pricing — enterprise-scale engagement required, blocking self-serve evaluation",
"Auth/onboarding for APIs (e.g., PSIRT openVuln) requires registration and is not agent-friendly",
"Documentation is oriented to human enterprise buyers, not agent-parseable product/pricing data",
"llms.txt is present but limited to a subset of priority pages (data center), not full platform coverage"
],
"recommendations": [
"Publish structured pricing tiers or at least indicative ranges for products to enable agent comparison",
"Provide agent-friendly API keys with simple OAuth/magic-link onboarding for PSIRT and related APIs",
"Expand llms.txt to cover networking, security, collaboration, and compute portfolios with consistent markdown",
"Add a machine-readable capabilities/status endpoint to improve response parseability"
]
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