If your company is developing and deploying AI applications, you need to be aware of a new tool from Cisco. The company’s AI Defense solution helps companies build secure AI apps so you can confidently move forward with your initiatives.
What Is Cisco AI Defense?
Although AI technology is progressing rapidly, many companies that want to embrace its power face a major obstacle: security. The rapid development of machine learning capabilities also accelerates security threats and concerns. Despite AI's potential for streamlining operations, increasing productivity, improving collaboration, and more, for many companies, the security risks far outweigh the benefits.
Cisco AI Defense aims to close the gap, letting businesses use the power of AI with less risk to their cloud platforms, digital assets, networks, and operations. It does this by leveraging AI and machine learning to create a more unified approach to application security.
Addressing the Two Primary Risks of AI Transformation
According to Cisco research, only 29% of companies feel they can accurately detect and thwart unauthorized tampering with their AI applications. Part of the problem is the tools’ complexity: risks can appear in either the model or the app, and responsibility for mitigating them can rest with anyone from the developer to the end user.
Cisco AI Defense aims to solve this problem with a simple, baked-in solution. It centralizes security by creating a single layer that protects every application and every user. It addresses the two biggest risks of AI adoption: developing secure applications and securing access.
The AI Defense tool helps you develop secure applications by giving developers one set of safety and security guardrails that work on every application, eliminating the need to create a new one every time. It can help identify who is developing the application, ensure more accurate models, and protect them from ongoing security risks.
It also helps secure access to AI applications to prevent data leakage and poisoning of proprietary data. It ensures total visibility into the apps that employees use, prevents them from using unapproved tools, and supports compliance by protecting them from existing and emerging threats.
Ongoing Threat Detection and Security
Cisco AI Defense self-optimizes, addressing one of the greatest weaknesses of individual AI models. In other words, it constantly uses Cisco threat intelligence and machine learning capabilities to evolve, identify, and thwart threats.
This new tool addresses issues that traditional networking security can’t, providing total visibility into your company’s AI assets and continuous protection. It will be available to enterprise users in March 2025; Cisco also built it into Security Cloud, the cross-domain security platform.
Cisco AI Defense gives your company the power to fortify its AI tools and stay resilient.
