Mitigate the risks associated with AI development, deployment, and usage by embedding industry-leading AI and cybersecurity technology into the Cisco Security Cloud. Cisco AI Security empowers security teams to detect vulnerabilities, implement real-time guardrails, and seamlessly integrate across the enterprise AI attack surface, addressing challenges like visibility gaps in multi-cloud AI infrastructure, AI model vulnerabilities, and emerging adversarial AI threats such as prompt injections and jailbreaking.

• Automated Vulnerability Assessment: Leverages AI algorithmic red teaming to quickly identify hundreds of potential safety and security risks in AI models and applications, a task that traditionally takes weeks.
• Real-time Protection with Guardrails: Provides safety, security, and privacy guardrails that automatically adapt to emerging AI threats, blocking violations like sensitive data leaks, prompt injections, and denial-of-service attacks.
• Comprehensive AI Asset Visibility: Offers continuous visibility across AI-related cloud traffic to automatically discover and inventory AI assets (models, agents), helping eliminate uncertainty and risk from rogue AI.
• Alignment with Industry Standards: Actively contributes to and aligns with evolving standards and frameworks such as NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI-RMF), MITRE ATLAS, and OWASP Top 10 for LLM, preparing organizations for regulatory requirements.

Comprehensive data center security solutions are critical to protecting critical applications and data across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. This approach is layered and threat-centric, emphasizing prevention, detection, containment, and remediation through integrated security controls, secure segmentation, access management, and continuous monitoring to defend against sophisticated attacks. These offerings leverage advanced technologies such as next-generation firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, and analytics, with innovations like AI-native security for autonomous segmentation and distributed exploit protection. By streamlining management and integrating security throughout the data center infrastructure, organizations can reduce risk, accelerate business goals, and maintain compliance, ensuring the integrity and availability of essential information.

• Protect Against Modern Threats - Firewalls optimized for threat inspection at key boundaries. See hidden threats in encrypted traffic, at scale. Use extensive network telemetry and ML-guided behavior algorithms to discover and enforce policies.
• Segmentation that Works - Deploy topology-aware security that understands app dependencies and applies segmentation policies optimally across Cisco security fabric for both traditional and Kubernetes workloads.
• Close the Exploit Gap - The AI-native rule engine prioritizes vulnerabilities and automatically recommends surgical mitigating control that has been tested against live production traffic to ensure apps keep running. Get protection from exploits in minutes, not months.
• Secure the AI Transformation - Secure enterprise use of AI models and applications. Protect against novel threats that are introduced through the development and deployment of AI applications

A universal Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solution delivers identity-first security by combining integrated multi-factor authentication with cross-platform identity intelligence for both users and IoT devices, enabling dynamic access policies that ensure only verified identities can reach organizational resources. This approach enforces consistent security controls across all types of applications—modern, legacy, SaaS, and private—regardless of where users are located. It also provides comprehensive visibility into user and device activity, security posture, and application performance, which enhances threat detection, compliance, and operational resilience. With flexible deployment options that integrate easily into existing infrastructure and support a unified SASE architecture, organizations can adopt the solution at their own pace. Furthermore, this approach helps mitigate risks associated with shadow IT, including unauthorized AI usage, by detecting and managing such activity and ensuring compliance through robust safety, security, and privacy measures.

• Identity-First Security: Leverage integrated MFA and cross-platform identity intelligence (for users and things like IoT devices) to drive dynamic access policies, ensuring only verified identities access resources.
• Consistent Policy Enforcement: Apply uniform security policies across all applications—modern, legacy, SaaS, and private—for all users, whether remote, on-campus, or at a branch.
• End-to-End Visibility & Control: Gain deep insights into user and device activity, security posture, and application performance. This visibility helps you detect threats, ensure compliance, and build operational resilience.
• Flexible Deployment & Integration: Start where you are and evolve at your own pace. Cisco's Universal ZTNA integrates seamlessly with your existing infrastructure and supports a single-vendor SASE architecture for unified control.
• Mitigate Shadow IT, Especially AI: Detect and manage unauthorized AI application usage, preventing data leakage and ensuring compliance with guardrails for safety, security, and privacy.

An integrated security approach empowers organizations to efficiently identify, remediate, and respond to threats by offering unified visibility and control across endpoints, networks, cloud environments, and applications. By bringing together endpoint security, cloud protection, and remote access within a single, user-friendly platform, organizations can reduce complexity while ensuring robust protection. Advanced detection and response features consolidate telemetry and enhance alerts with actionable insights, facilitating quick identification and automated mitigation of sophisticated threats. This comprehensive strategy, combined with proactive vulnerability prioritization and streamlined security operations, enables organizations to minimize risk, speed up incident resolution, and maintain strong defenses against evolving cyber threats.

• A Platform Approach - that integrates physical, virtual, cloud, and container NGFW options across policy, objects, tenants, API's, RBAC, licensing and logging.  Cisco security architecture is built for interoperability with Cisco's extended portfolio—including ISE, Secure Access, Duo, Hypershield, Secure Workload and XDR—enabling coordinated defense and policy enforcement from endpoint to cloud.
• Secure Every Endpoint and Network Access – a unified agent that consolidates endpoint security, cloud security, and remote access into a single, easy-to-manage solution. It reduces complexity and agent fatigue while providing comprehensive protection across devices and networks, all centrally managed through Cisco's cloud platform.
• Detect and Respond with Precision - a unifying layer that integrates telemetry from endpoints, networks, cloud, and applications to provide comprehensive visibility across your security infrastructure. It enriches alerts with actionable insights, enabling your security operations center to quickly detect sophisticated threats and automate response workflows for faster remediation.
• Prioritize and Manage Vulnerabilities Proactively - a risk-based vulnerability management platform that helps organizations prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities based on real-world exploit data and their unique risk profiles. By leveraging machine learning and data science, it analyzes vast amounts of vulnerability and threat intelligence to identify the highest-risk vulnerabilities that could impact the business.
• Automate and Orchestrate Security Operations- enhance security operations by automating repetitive tasks, orchestrating complex workflows, and accelerating incident investigation and response. With prebuilt and customizable playbooks aligned to industry frameworks, Splunk SOAR helps reduce manual effort, improve accuracy, and shorten mean time to resolution (MTTR).
• Leverage Threat Intelligence and Incident Expertise - Powered by Cisco Talos, one of the world's leading threat intelligence and incident response teams, your defenses stay ahead of emerging threats. Talos Incident Response experts collaborate with your team through Cisco SecureX to accelerate investigations and orchestrate effective containment strategies during security incidents.

Cisco Security Suites are comprehensive, integrated security solutions designed to protect organizations by consolidating multiple security tools into unified suites that work together seamlessly. Built on zero trust principles and powered by AI, these suites enhance security efficacy, simplify operations, and improve economic value by reducing complexity and operational burden. They help secure users, infrastructure, and accelerate attack resolution, enabling businesses to scale securely and efficiently.

• User Protection Suite: Provides secure, seamless access to any application from any device, protecting users against all attack vectors with zero trust and zero friction.
• Cloud Protection Suite: Delivers end-to-end security for hybrid and multicloud environments, safeguarding applications, workloads, and networks with advanced visibility, segmentation, and threat prevention.
• Breach Protection Suite: Empowers security teams to simplify operations and accelerate detection, investigation, and response to sophisticated threats like ransomware, leveraging AI and integrated telemetry.