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Cisco reveals new solution to aid AI adoption in enterprises

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Cisco has announced Cisco AI Defense, a solution to enable and safeguard AI transformation within enterprises.

“Sacrifice safety for speed”

Jeetu Patel, Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Cisco commented: “Business and technology leaders can’t afford to sacrifice safety for speed when embracing AI.

“In a dynamic landscape where competition is fierce, speed decides the winners.

“Fused into the fabric of the network, Cisco AI Defense combines the unique ability to detect and protect against threats when developing and accessing AI applications without trade offs.”

AI Defense

To unlock AI innovation and adoption, enterprises need a common layer of safety and security that protects every user and every application.

AI Defense enables enterprises’ AI transformations by addressing two urgent risks

Developing and deploying secure AI applications

As AI becomes ubiquitous, enterprises will use and develop hundreds if not thousands of AI applications.

Developers need one set of AI security and safety guardrails that work for every application.

AI Defense helps developers move fast and unlock greater value by protecting AI systems from attacks and safeguarding model behaviour, across platforms.

The capabilities of AI Defense include:

  • Discovering AI: Security teams need to understand who is building applications and the training sources they use. AI Defense detects shadow and sanctioned AI applications across public and private clouds
  • Model validation: Model tuning can lead to toxic and unexpected outcomes. Automated testing checks AI models for hundreds of potential safety and security issues. This AI-driven algorithmic red team identifies potential vulnerabilities and recommends guardrails in AI Defense for security teams to use
  • Runtime security: Continuous validation safeguards against potential safety and security threats such as prompt injection, denial of service and sensitive data leakage on an ongoing basis

Securing Access to AI Applications

As end users rush to adopt AI applications like summarisation tools to improve their productivity, security teams need to prevent data leakage and the poisoning of proprietary data.

Cisco says that AI Defense provides security teams with:

  • Visibility: Provides a comprehensive view of shadow and sanctioned AI-enabled apps used by employees
  • Access Control: Implements policies that restrict employee access to unsanctioned AI tools
  • Data and Threat Protection: Continuously safeguards against threats and confidential data loss while ensuring compliance
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