Cisco AI Defense
Governance, Risk & Compliance
Overview
Cisco AI Defense is a comprehensive, purpose-built AI security solution that mitigates the risks associated with the development and deployment of AI models, applications, and agents. It provides runtime protection for AI applications, detects and blocks adversarial attacks including prompt injections and model evasion, and offers model security to identify backdoors and vulnerabilities. The platform integrates with Cisco's broader security portfolio including its cloud web application and API protection solutions to provide defense-in-depth for AI workloads.
- Pricing model
- Subscription
- Deployment
- SaaS (vendor-hosted), API / SDK
- Regions served
- Global
- Categories
- Subscription, Software & technology, Infrastructure, network & endpoint security, API / SDK, AI & agent security, Predictive / classical ML, Horizontal platform, SaaS (vendor-hosted), Governance, Risk & Compliance, Agentic / autonomous, Enterprise / custom quote
- Last updated
- 2 October 2026
- Published
- 2 October 2026
Use cases
Deployment options
Data sources & provenance
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- Data quality
- Data quality: Editorially Reviewed
- Primary source
- cisco.com
- Sources cited
- 2
- Last reviewed
- 27 September 2026
- Last updated
- 2 October 2026
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