Cisco is pioneering a new era of AI security that empowers enterprises to innovate rapidly while maintaining robust protection across their AI environments. This approach delivers comprehensive visibility into AI assets and usage, enabling organizations to detect vulnerabilities and evolving threats in real time. By embedding security directly into the network fabric, it safeguards AI applications throughout their lifecycle—from development and deployment to everyday use—without compromising speed or agility. Advanced algorithmic testing and continuous runtime guardrails ensure AI systems operate safely, while policy-driven access controls prevent data leakage and unauthorized use. Leveraging extensive threat intelligence and seamless integration across distributed environments, this solution provides enterprises with the confidence to accelerate AI adoption securely and responsibly, transforming risk into resilience.

Whether your organization is using third-party AI applications or developing its own, Cisco AI Defense delivers robust security, ensuring protection throughout the entire AI lifecycle. It combines advanced detection and runtime safeguards to defend against evolving AI threats and vulnerabilities.

AI Asset Discovery: Automatically identifies AI workloads, models, and applications across multi-cloud environments.

Risk Detection: Detects misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and adversarial attacks such as prompt injections, denial of service, and data leakage.

Runtime Protection: Enforces guardrails embedded in the network to block harmful AI behaviors and attacks.

AI Supply Chain Risk Management: Scans AI model files for malicious code, license compliance, and geopolitical risks.

Standards Alignment: Supports compliance with NIST AI Risk Management Framework, MITRE ATLAS, and OWASP LLM Top 10.

Network-Level Visibility: Leverages Cisco's Security Cloud and threat intelligence from Cisco Talos for continuous updates and superior threat detection.

Cisco AI Access is a fully integrated feature set within Cisco Secure Access that provides comprehensive control and protection for the use of third-party generative AI applications across an organization. It addresses the challenges posed by Shadow AI—unsanctioned AI applications used by employees—by offering broad visibility, risk assessment, and enforcement capabilities.

AI App Detection: AI Access enables organizations to discover and manage over 1,200 AI applications, providing visibility into Shadow AI usage and preventing the use of unsanctioned AI apps.

AI Guardrails: These are intent-based detection mechanisms that mitigate risks such as privacy violations, prompt injection attacks, and harmful content. They inspect both user inputs (prompts) and AI outputs to block malicious or unsafe content, focusing on safety, privacy, and security for major AI SaaS applications.

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Access Control: AI Access enforces DLP functions on AI inputs and outputs to prevent sensitive data leakage and controls employee access to generative AI tools, blocking or redirecting requests to approved services.

Integration with Secure Access SSE: AI Access is embedded within the Secure Access Security Service Edge (SSE) solution, leveraging zero trust principles and a unified cloud-managed console. It simplifies IT operations with AI-assisted centralized policy creation and aggregated reporting.

Risk Assessment and Policy Enforcement: The solution provides usage context such as devices, location, and network data to help identify the riskiest AI applications and enforce granular access and security policies.

Cisco AI Assistant is a fundamental component embedded within Cisco's security product suite to enhance security operations and outcomes. The Cisco AI Assistant leverages AI-driven insights to enhance IT decision-making and operational efficiency by automating complex workflows and fostering collaboration while maintaining strong security and privacy standards.

Data-Driven Insights: Leverages vast data to assist IT teams in making faster, smarter, and more secure decisions.

Workflow Automation: Accelerates and simplifies complex tasks with generative AI technologies.

Enhanced Collaboration: Transforms hybrid work and customer experience with AI-powered productivity tools.

Built on Security and Privacy: Designed with a responsible AI framework ensuring data protection and privacy.

Unlock the full potential of AI while mitigating risks with Cisco's AI security solutions. Whether developing AI applications or managing AI usage, Cisco AI Security provides the visibility, control, and protection your enterprise needs.