Companies need security solutions that protect against AI cybersecurity threats
Over the past several years, the security landscape rapidly evolved with the introduction of AI, specifically generative AI. AI spawned numerous new categories of AI cyber threats, such as data inference, transfer learning attacks and model inversion. Additional, AI-enhanced phishing attacks are driving increased breaches and data loss. Today, companies need specialized security solutions that protect AI systems and their components from various security threats (e.g., adversarial attacks) and vulnerabilities (e.g., data poisoning). These security products must protect the data, algorithms, models, and infrastructure involved in AI applications.
What Cisco Announced
Last week, Cisco unveiled its latest security innovation called Cisco AI Defense. The solution offers a new approach to targeting AI safety and security challenges. Let’s break down Cisco’s announcement, the AI-specific features of its latest offering, and the benefits it provides to security operations (SecOps) teams.
Today, every security vendor worth evaluating offers new AI-enhanced products with features such as conversational AI assistants and streamlining alerts to help highlight relevant security threats. The Cisco AI Defense platform builds on Cisco’s existing Secure Access technology and incorporates new features designed specifically for the AI ecosystem. Specifically, AI Defense aims to address two core AI problems: 1) securing enterprise access to AI applications and 2) ensuring the safety and security of AI models and applications built by organizations.
What are the AI-Specific Features of Cisco AI Defense
Cisco’s security solutions leverage threat intelligence from over 50 billion daily events and integrates data from tools like Splunk and other third-party feeds. The data from these events helps detect AI-specific vulnerabilities and threats. However, the company also added more AI-specific features such as:
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