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.
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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 recordedWhat 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?
- 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
- blogs.cisco.comVendor-published · retrieved 2026-08-01
- securityweek.comIndependent · retrieved 2026-08-01
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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