Cisco AI Defense​

Comprehensive security for the AI era

Cisco AI Defense Overview

Comprehensive security for the AI era

Get end-to-end protection for enterprises building, using, and innovating with AI.

Companies must contend with complex AI risks in a multi-cloud, multi-model world
Whether your organization is using third-party AI applications or developing its own, you cannot afford to sacrifice safety and security for speed. With Cisco AI Defense, you won't have to.

Using AI

Automatically surface third-party AI applications in use across your organization. Define policies that manage employee access, protect against threats, and prevent sensitive data loss.

Developing AI

Detect AI assets across your environment. Algorithmically assess models to identify vulnerabilities, then deploy guardrails to protect AI apps—and your customers—in real time.

Cisco AI Defense Featuers

Comprehensive AI security to keep your enterprise safe and secure

Identify AI assets

Discover the AI workloads, applications, models, data, and users across your distributed cloud environments.

See the risks

Detect misconfigurations, security vulnerabilities, and adversarial attacks that put AI applications at risk.

Mitigate threats in real time

Protect AI applications against rapidly evolving threats, including prompt injections, denial of service, and data leakage.

Cisco AI Defense Components

The essential components for comprehensive AI security

AI Model and Application Validation

Identify safety and security vulnerabilities across models at scale. With algorithmic red teaming technology, assess AI risk in mere seconds.

AI Runtime Protection

Protect production AI applications with guardrails embedded in the network. Block adversarial attacks and harmful responses in real time.

AI Cloud Visibility

Automatically inventory the AI models and connected data sources across your distributed environment to understand usage and gauge risk.

AI Access

Monitor and manage access to third-party AI applications. Enforce policies that limit sensitive data exposure and protect against external threats.

AI Supply Chain Risk Management

Learn about Cisco AI supply chain risk management to help ensure governance and security over AI models and files.

Cisco AI Defense Advantage

The Cisco platform delivers compounded value for a resilient AI security solution. Our network-layer visibility across the enterprise, coupled with mature guardrails and live threat intelligence updates, makes Cisco AI Defense the enterprise choice to secure the usage and development of AI.

Network-level data insights

Cisco sees the data running throughout your distributed environment, which provides full visibility into the AI traffic and associated risks.

Security fused in the network fabric

Cisco enforces AI security at the network-level without the need for agents or libraries, decoupling AI development from security.

Advanced detections

AI Defense guardrails go beyond prompt injection and malicious URL detection to protect against the latest threats, including model denial of service (DoS), code detection, off-topic attacks, and more.

Superior threat intelligence

Cisco uses the latest threat intelligence from our AI research lab and Talos to inform our detections and provide instant platform updates to protect against emerging attacks. Splunk customers can use their Splunk data for additional insights.

Cisco is shaping AI security standards

Cisco was early to collaborate with Al security standards bodies and remains an active contributor. Al Defense helps you align to standards with a single integration, including NIST, MITRE ATLAS, and OWASP LLM Top 10.

Close the AI security gap and unblock your AI transformation with comprehensive protection across your environment.