Cisco Security and AI

Secure your AI transformation and power your cyber defenses

Protect your AI operations while also using cutting-edge AI to strengthen your cybersecurity.

AI for better security and security for better AI

Harness pioneering AI and cybersecurity expertise, embedded directly into your existing network visibility and enforcement points within the Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall.

AI security insights

Foundation AI: The future of cybersecurity collaboration

Drive innovation with open-source AI purpose-built for cybersecurity.

AI Canvas: Cross-product agenticOps

Bring together data across networking, security, collaboration, and the data center.

Security for AI: How Cisco helps

Secure your AI operations without slowing performance. Discover, detect, and protect your AI applications, models, and sensitive data, and defend against risks from third-party and shadow AI apps.

Cisco's AI research team continuously discovers novel AI threats, driving regular product updates. As co-authors to the NIST, OWASP, and MITRE ATLAS frameworks, we integrate these robust standards to protect against AI risks.

Cisco AI Defense: First-party app security

Secure your enterprise's AI transformation. Address the safety and security risks introduced by the development and use of AI by embedding advanced AI security from Cisco Security Cloud.

Cisco Secure Access: Third-party app security

Defend against threats from third-party and shadow AI apps, safeguard sensitive data, and restrict access to unsanctioned tools, which helps ensure secure generative AI (genAI) use.

Security for AI solution areas

Cisco provides broad protection for the ever-evolving AI landscape. As AI applications grow in complexity—from chatbots to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and agentic systems—and new threats emerge, our solutions adapt. Our robust AI supply chain risk management, end-to-end AI application security, and specialized agentic AI security provide safeguards against adversarial attacks and data leakage.

AI application security

Secure AI applications to defend against safety and security risks.

AI supply chain risk management

Help ensure the AI models and components used in your development process are secure and compliant.

Agentic AI security

Cisco is extending its zero-trust architecture to cover agentic AI, applying consistent protections across Hybrid Mesh Firewall enforcement points.

AI for security

Cisco uses AI to assist, augment, and automate, embedding AI across all our products. Our commitment to both proprietary and open-source AI means cutting-edge intelligence is integrated, proactively defending against threats and enhancing security operations. This approach leverages collective security insights to deliver more accurate and reliable outcomes across your network, cloud, and endpoints.

Cisco AI blogs

Expand your AI knowledge with blogs from experts on security, innovation, and real-world use cases.

Assist security teams

AI assistance puts control in the hands of your security operations center (SOC) teams, allowing them to simplify management by up to 70%.

Augment human insight

AI-powered capabilities allow cybersecurity teams to run at machine speed so they can focus on what's critical.

Automate complex workflows

Using autonomous actions, our solutions can learn from human-to-machine interactions to automate complex playbooks.

Open-source AI

Cisco Foundation AI bridges the gap between the promise of AI and its application in cybersecurity, delivering pioneering research and large language models (LLMs) to strengthen security teams.


Resources

AI security and safety taxonomy

Understand the generative-AI threat landscape with key definitions, mitigations, and standards.

Cisco Security for AI blogs

Learn about the latest AI security trends, risks, and best practices from our experts.

State of AI Security 2025 Report

Read key 2025 insights on AI security—from threat intelligence to policy and research.

AI-security reference architectures

Secure design patterns and practices for teams building LLM-powered applications.

Cisco AI solutions

Power seamless workflows with AI agents for real-time, cross-domain security execution.