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Secure your AI transformation

Take advantage of the full potential of AI with end-to-end safety and security protections.

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Enable your teams to safely build and deploy AI applications

The development and use of AI-powered applications exposes companies to new risks that require purpose-built solutions to cover two critical security gaps: shadow AI and application security. 

Shadow AI

Find third-party generative AI apps and enforce controls to protect your employees from sharing sensitive data and propagating threats.

AI application security

Detect the AI assets running in your environment and help ensure that the models and applications are safe and secure across the AI lifecycle.

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.

The essential components for comprehensive AI security

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AI Access

Provide full visibility, control access, and apply guardrails to third-party AI apps to enforce data-loss prevention and mitigate threats. 

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AI Model and Application Validation

Identify hundreds of potential safety and security risks with automated vulnerability assessments of AI models and applications.

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AI Runtime Protection

Protect production AI applications with guardrails that block adversarial attacks and harmful responses in real time.

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AI Cloud Visibility

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

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The Cisco advantage provides AI safety and security

"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 melted into the network

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.

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AI security research and threat intelligence

See the latest research and analysis of AI exploits that also inform our detections.

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AI security reference architectures

Learn about secure design patterns and practices for teams developing LLM-powered applications.

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Responsible AI principles

Cisco is dedicated to securing artificial intelligence and emerging technologies.

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Introducing Cisco AI Defense

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Unveiling an era of secure AI adoption

Experience the full unveiling of Cisco AI Defense, captured at the recent Cisco AI Summit in Palo Alto, Calif. Listen to EVP and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel as he presents the current challenges and opportunities faced by organizations when enabling AI for both employees and for the business. Learn how Cisco empowers AI transformation in enterprises with this new end-to-end security offering.

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The enterprise choice for AI security

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

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