Cisco Secure Access: AI Access

Take control over public GenAI applications

Control employee access to generative AI tools and enforce data-loss prevention with AI Access, a fully integrated feature set of the Cisco Secure Access SSE solution.

Safeguard employee use of third-party GenAI apps

AI Access is a fully integrated feature set of Cisco Secure Access SSE.

Discover shadow AI apps

Employees have access to a wide variety of generative AI applications and tools, including traditional solutions that are adding AI functionality. AI Access inspects web traffic to identify uses of shadow AI across your organization, enabling you to see the list of AI-powered services in use. This includes specific API calls made to AI models as part of AI-enhanced applications.

Assess the risk of shadow AI

All employees have access to AI-powered applications, but not all employees or apps introduce the same level of risk. AI Access provides the usage context you need to make informed decisions about your third-party app exposure, including usage, devices, location, and network data. The dashboard helps you easily identify the riskiest apps, with risk scores and recommendations to guide your assessment.

Control access and protect data

Empower employees to use approved AI apps in a safe and compliant manner. AI Access makes it easy to configure granular access and policy controls, blocking or redirecting requests to approved services. The service also uses guardrails to discern context and infer intent, blocking prompts with privacy, safety, or security concerns and intercepting malicious responses that could propagate threats.

Remove security objections to third-party GenAI apps

Industry-leading threat protection

Cisco's proprietary machine learning models provide superior threat detection, safeguarding against data exposure and protecting against novel attack vectors.

Superior visibility and enforcement

With full visibility and control over the traffic on the network, Cisco can detect and block malicious and undesired AI traffic using a multitude of enforcement points.

Zero-trust principles extended to AI

Easily add third-party generative AI app coverage to Cisco's security service edge (SSE) offering with AI Access.

Go further. Enforce zero trust access across all apps.

Cisco Secure Access delivers SSE that is better for users, easier for IT, safer for everyone.


Additional resources

Security service edge beyond AI Access

See how Secure Access connects any user to any app with DLP, access controls, and threat protection.

AI security research and threat intelligence

See the latest research and analysis of AI exploits that also inform our detections.

Security for AI app development

Learn more about how Cisco AI Defense secures AI apps developed by your organization.

Cisco's responsible AI principles

Cisco is dedicated to securing artificial intelligence and emerging technologies.

Cisco Secure Access e-book

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