Cisco has presented its all-round security concept for AI operations in companies, which is designed to create transparency and offer real-time protection.
At Cisco Live EMEA in Amsterdam, Cisco presented a range of new security and network products designed to help companies implement their AI strategies securely and efficiently. These include Cisco AI Defense, a service for overcoming the biggest challenges in dealing with AI and large language models (LLMs).
Threats such as the uncontrolled use of generative AI applications (so-called Shadow AI), manipulation of models through prompt injection or attacks on runtime environments pose serious risks. Cisco AI Defense is designed to minimize these dangers and enable companies to develop, deploy and operate AI applications securely.
Guidelines and real-time protection
Cisco’s strategy relies on several protection mechanisms that can be summarized in four central components: Access to AI applications can be regulated through policy enforcement to prevent unauthorized use. At the same time, comprehensive visibility of the AI cloud applications used should ensure transparency with regard to potential risks and threats. Through the continuous analysis of AI models, Cisco aims to identify security gaps and unexpected behavior. And real-time protection is designed to prevent attacks such as prompt injection or denial of service attacks. Cisco Talos, the in-house threat intelligence network, serves as a data source for detecting such attacks.
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