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Cisco AI Defense: AI Access

Take control over public GenAI applications

Limit employee access to generative AI tools and enforce data-loss prevention.

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Safeguard employee use of third-party GenAI apps

AI Access automatically identifies external AI-powered solutions in use across your organization, controls employee access, and restricts what information is passed by the user and from the application.

Discover shadow AI apps

Employees have access to a wide variety of generative AI applications and tools, including traditional solutions that are adding AI functionality. AI Access inspects web traffic to identify uses of shadow AI across your organization, enabling you to see the list of AI-powered services in use. This includes specific API calls made to AI models as part of AI-enhanced applications.

Assess the risk of shadow AI

All employees have access to AI-powered applications, but not all employees or apps introduce the same level of risk. AI Access provides the usage context you need to make informed decisions about your third-party app exposure, including usage, devices, location, and network data. The dashboard helps you easily identify the riskiest apps, with risk scores and recommendations to guide your assessment.

Control access and protect data

Empower employees to use approved AI apps in a safe and compliant manner. AI Access makes it easy to configure granular access and policy controls for hundreds of AI apps, blocking or redirecting requests to approved services. The service also uses guardrails to enforce data loss prevention by blocking prompts that include sensitive company information and intercept malicious responses that could propagate threats.

Remove security objections to third-party GenAI apps

Industry-leading threat protection

Cisco's proprietary machine learning models provide superior threat detection, safeguarding against data exposure and protecting against novel attack vectors.

Superior visibility and enforcement

With full visibility and control over the traffic on the network, Cisco can detect and block malicious and undesired AI traffic using a multitude of enforcement points.

Zero-trust principles extended to AI

Easily add third-party generative AI app coverage to Cisco's security service edge (SSE) offering with AI Access.

Achieve AI security excellence in your organization

AI Defense makes it easy to comply with AI security standards, including the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications. Learn more about individual AI risks, including how they map to standards from MITRE, NIST, and OWASP, in our AI security taxonomy.

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Additional resources

AI safety and security taxonomy

Understand the generative-AI threat landscape with 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

Secure design patterns and practices for teams developing LLM-powered applications.

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Cisco's responsible AI principles

Cisco is dedicated to securing artificial intelligence and emerging technologies.

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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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