Cisco AI Defense

Cisco AI Defense is an enterprise artificial intelligence security solution designed to safeguard large language models (LLMs), autonomous agents, and generative AI workloads across modern enterprise environments. Formed through Cisco's security innovation and integration with Robust Intelligence, the platform protects organizational AI pipelines, stopping adversarial exploits, data exfiltration, shadow AI usage, and behavioral drift before threats compromise business integrity.

Architecturally, Cisco AI Defense operates across development, evaluation, and runtime environments. During development, it provides automated agentic red-teaming and model vulnerability validation, testing custom foundation models, AI agents, and RAG pipelines against thousands of automated attack scenarios to identify systemic vulnerabilities. At runtime, Cisco AI Defense enforces low-latency inline guardrails at the network and API layers, inspecting user prompts and AI-generated responses to block prompt injections, jailbreaks, toxic outputs, and unauthorized leakage of personally identifiable information (PII) or intellectual property. The solution integrates seamlessly into Cisco Secure Access, enterprise CI/CD workflows, LangChain, Hugging Face, AWS Bedrock, and Azure OpenAI.

Core enterprise use cases include runtime prompt injection protection, enterprise shadow AI discovery, data loss prevention for generative AI chats, and automated AI compliance validation under emerging regulatory frameworks such as the EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF. Cisco AI Defense enables enterprises to deploy generative AI applications with confidence.