Cisco AI Defense
By Cisco
Cisco AI Defense addresses both employee use of third-party AI services and security of internally developed AI applications. It discovers AI assets and applications, assesses models and supply-chain risk, applies access and data policies, and enforces runtime guardrails against threats such as prompt injection and sensitive-data exposure.
- Product type
- Software
- Deployment
- SaaSHybrid
- Organization size
- Mid-marketEnterprise
- Pricing tier
- $$$
AI security profile
Protects workforce AI use and internally developed AI through discovery, model and application assessment, policy controls, and runtime guardrails.
Capability checklist
AI-SPMHow Cisco AI Defense measures up against the full AI Security Posture & Governance taxonomy.
- AI asset discovery — supported
- Finds models, AI services, applications, agents, and related infrastructure across development and production environments.
- Inventory & ownership — supported
- Maintains an inventory of AI assets, their owners, lineage, purpose, and deployment status.
- AI risk posture — supported
- Identifies risky configurations, exposed assets, unapproved services, and missing safeguards.
- Policy & governance — supported
- Defines and evaluates policies for approved models, providers, data use, and AI application behavior.
- Framework mapping — not supported
- Maps AI risks and controls to frameworks such as the NIST AI RMF and OWASP guidance.
- Shadow AI monitoring — supported
- Detects unsanctioned workforce use of AI applications and services.
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