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Cisco AI Defense

Cisco's AI security product line built on the acquired Robust Intelligence platform, protecting AI models and applications from prompt injection, data poisoning, and other AI-specific threats.

Acquiredhigh confidenceVerified 2026-08-01

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How the product is positioned

Cisco's AI security product line built on the acquired Robust Intelligence platform, protecting AI models and applications from prompt injection, data poisoning, and other AI-specific threats.

Our summary of the vendor’s positioning — verbatim claim not yet recorded

What we found

Level 1 · assistive

Seeded at the rubric default. No independent evidence of end-to-end task completion has been reviewed yet, so the lowest grade applies until it is.

Any human checkpoint here is a product setting, not a regulatory requirement — confirm how it is configured for your deployment.

Graded 2026-08-01 · re-check 2026-11-01

Procurement detail

Deployment
saasvendor documentation
Compliance
SOC 2 · FedRAMP · ISO 27001report dates not disclosed — request before signing
Integrations
Cisco Security Cloud claim unverifiedAWS claim unverifiedAzure claim unverifiedGCP claim unverified
Pricing
customBundled/custom enterprise security licensing.
Human checkpoint
Requiredproduct setting
Named customers
Not independently verifiedfrom cited sources

Will they still be here?

Acquired
Funding
Acquired by Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) August 2024; Robust Intelligence had raised $44M, valued >$200M pre-acquisition
Founded
2021
HQ
San Francisco, USA (Robust Intelligence origin)
Ownership
Acquired by Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) August 2024; Robust Intelligence had raised $44M, valued >$200M pre-acquisition

Sources

Logo retrieved 2026-08-01from the vendor’s own site · trademark of Cisco Systems

Where it’s weak

Integration into a large incumbent's portfolio can slow product velocity relative to independent AI-security startups.

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