Cisco AI Defense

Cisco AI Defense helps enterprise security and AI teams discover AI assets, test models and agents, and apply runtime guardrails. It addresses prompt injection, sensitive data leakage, and unsafe tool use.

Key Highlights

• Cloud visibility for AI models, agents, and MCP servers
• Algorithmic red teaming for models and applications
• Model, repository, and MCP supply chain scanning
• Runtime inspection of prompts, responses, and tool calls
• Self-service red teaming through Explorer Edition

What Makes It Different

AI Defense connects testing with production protection: validation findings guide model-specific guardrails. Network-layer enforcement supports cloud, VPC, and on-premises deployments. Employee access controls for third-party AI apps belong to Cisco Secure Access, a separate offering in Cisco's AI security portfolio.

Features & Capabilities

Teams can inventory AI assets, run adversarial tests, and review vulnerability reports before applying policies. Supply chain scans assess model files, repositories, and MCP servers. Runtime controls inspect agent tool calls and can restrict unsafe tool usage.

Explorer Edition focuses on self-service testing. Builders can describe attack goals in plain language and run adaptive multi-turn tests against models and agents. Risk scores and shareable reports help teams decide which guardrails to add.

User Ratings and Testimonials

Cisco features World Wide Technology's Kent Noyes praising AI asset visibility and threat protection. For a practical evaluation, test false positives, missed attacks, and application latency in your own environment.

Pricing & Value

Cisco does not publish enterprise list prices. Contact Cisco for pricing on these packages:

• Validation Essentials: Cloud visibility and model and application validation.
• Runtime Essentials: Cloud visibility and runtime protection.
• Advantage: Visibility, validation, runtime protection, and supply chain scanning.
• Explorer Edition: Free to start with self-service red teaming for models and agents.

Use Explorer for initial testing; choose an enterprise package for the discovery and production controls your team needs.