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Cisco claims AI Defense can surface third-party AI applications in use and discover AI workloads, applications, models, data, and users across distributed environments.
Automatically surface third-party AI applications in use across your organization.
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Cisco claims AI Access monitors and manages access to third-party AI applications.
Monitor and manage access to third-party AI applications.
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Cisco claims AI Defense discovers AI workloads, applications, models, data, and users across distributed cloud environments.
Discover the AI workloads, applications, models, data, and users across your distributed cloud environments.
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Cisco claims AI Access can enforce policies that limit sensitive data exposure and protect against external threats for third-party AI applications.
Enforce policies that limit sensitive data exposure and protect against external threats.
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Cisco claims AI Defense prevents sensitive data loss and protects AI applications against data leakage.
Protect AI applications against rapidly evolving threats, including prompt injections, denial of service, and data leakage.
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Cisco claims AI Defense can manage employee access to third-party AI applications and prevent sensitive data loss.
Define policies that manage employee access, protect against threats, and prevent sensitive data loss.
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Cisco claims AI Defense validates AI models and applications and protects production AI applications with network-embedded guardrails.
Protect production AI applications with guardrails embedded in the network.
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Cisco AI Defense mentions red teaming AI models and agents, but reviewed materials do not show broad autonomous-agent telemetry or graph visibility.
Try AI red teaming for your models and agents today
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Cisco AI Defense official materials reviewed did not provide a clear Model Context Protocol (MCP), agent-to-agent (A2A), or agent-to-agent security control claim.
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Cisco AI Defense official materials reviewed did not provide a clear non-human identity or service-account lifecycle security claim.
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Cisco claims standards-aligned findings, risk scoring, policy-driven gating, and compliance support across model, agent, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) workflows.
Findings and protections map to leading frameworks, including MITRE ATLAS, OWASP Top 10 for LLMs, and NIST AI-RMF
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Cisco claims algorithmic red teaming for models and applications across more than 200 threat subcategories with model-specific guardrail generation.
Automatically test models and applications at AI scale with Cisco algorithmic red teaming.
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Cisco claims scanning of model files, repositories, datasets, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, and tools for malicious code, poisoning, backdoors, and compromised components before production.
Scan AI model files, repositories, and MCP servers for hidden risks before they are introduced into development or production.
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Cisco claims real-time Model Context Protocol (MCP) enforcement, tool allowlists and blocklists, and runtime policies across prompts, responses, agent actions, and tool calls.
MCP runtime enforcement: Monitor and enforce safe behavior across MCP requests and responses connecting LLMs, agents, and tools.
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Cisco claims runtime policies that detect and block unsafe agent actions, unauthorized tool usage, and privilege escalation.
Prevent harmful or unintended agent actions by enforcing policies on tool invocation, privilege levels, and action chains.
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Cisco AI Defense materials reviewed did not provide a public claim for governing coding-agent commands, developer-workstation files or networks, integrated development environment (IDE) extensions, skills, hooks, secrets, or package actions.
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Cisco AI Defense materials reviewed did not provide a public product claim for AI usage-cost attribution, token or spend metrics, budgets, chargeback, or cost-aware model routing.
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Cisco documents AI Defense as a software subscription offered in packages, including an AI Validation package, with ordering quantities and software subscription terms defined in official offer and ordering materials.
If You purchase an AI Defense subscription package with AI Validation
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