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Cisco AI Defense

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by Cisco

End-to-end AI security product that discovers an organisation's AI assets, red-teams models and applications for vulnerabilities, and enforces runtime guardrails against prompt injection and data leakage.

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No public price list and no pricing page; the product page (last updated 2026-06-04) offers only 'Request a demo', 'How to buy' and 'Trials and demos'. Cisco's official Offer Description for AI Defense (dated 2025-09-10) states 'The Cisco Offer subscription price is based on the quantity of AI Applications' and names three tiers: Validation Essentials, Runtime Essentials and Advantage. The AI Defense Data Sheet (2026-05-21) lists the same three tiers with no prices. Mid-term tier upgrades allowed, downgrades not. No free tier is offered; an 'AI Defense: Explorer Edition' red-teaming trial is promoted on the product page but is not described as a free tier of the product.

What it does

• Guardrails and safety
• Data security
• Threat detection and response
• Evaluation and observability

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Sources

Pricing

Official documentation · 1 Sep 2026

Sold within

Not found · 30 Sep 2026

Data sheet (Updated May 21, 2026) (read in the in-app browser, 2026-09-30; pagetext gets HTTP 403 from cisco.com/webex.com) names tiers "Validation Essentials", "Runtime Essentials" and "Advantage" with no price; the product page https://www.cisco.com/site/us/en/products/security/ai-defense/index.html offers "Request a demo" and header "How to buy" only. Separate free edition at https://explorer.aidefense.cisco.com/ (in-app browser): "Free to start", pointing to "Cisco AI Defense Enterprise" for the full product. No rate card or purchase sentence for the enterprise product.

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