Cisco AI Defense
Comprehensive security for the AI era
Get end-to-end protection for enterprises building, using, and innovating with AI.
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Companies must contend with complex AI risks in a multi-cloud, multi-model world
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Introducing Hybrid Mesh Firewall
Experience the highly distributed security fabric with unified management that is optimized for zero-trust segmentation and application protection in data center, cloud, campus, and IoT environments.
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The Cisco platform delivers compounded value for a resilient AI security solution
"Our unique ability to bring together networking, security, observability, and data enables Cisco to offer our customers unrivaled digital resilience for the AI era."
Chuck Robbins
Chair and CEO of Cisco
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.
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Additional resources
AI safety and security taxonomy
Understand the generative AI threat landscape by exploring definitions, mitigations, and standards classifications.
AI security research and threat intelligence
See the latest research and analysis of AI exploits that also inform our detections.
AI security reference architectures
Learn about secure design patterns and practices for teams developing LLM-powered applications.
Responsible AI principles
Cisco is dedicated to securing artificial intelligence and emerging technologies.
The State of AI Security
Cisco's annual State of AI Security report provides a comprehensive overview of developments in AI security across threat intelligence, policy, and research.
Product insights
Purpose-built to secure AI
"The adoption of AI exposes companies to new risks that traditional cybersecurity solutions don't address. Cisco AI Defense represents a significant leap forward in AI security, providing full visibility of an enterprise's AI assets and protection against evolving threats."
Kent Noyes, Global Head of AI and Cyber Innovation
World Wide Technology
The enterprise choice for AI security
Close the AI security gap and unblock your AI transformation with comprehensive protection across your environment.