LLM Guard

Cisco AI Defense is a comprehensive security solution designed to enable enterprises to safely develop, deploy, and utilize AI applications. It addresses critical security challenges such as shadow AI—unauthorized use of third-party generative AI apps—and application security by providing full visibility into AI assets and enforcing controls to prevent data leakage and mitigate threats. Key components include AI Access, which offers control over third-party AI applications; AI Model and Application Validation, which conducts automated vulnerability assessments; AI Runtime Protection, which implements real-time guardrails against adversarial attacks; and AI Cloud Visibility, which inventories AI models and data sources across distributed environments. Leveraging Cisco's network-layer visibility and continuous threat intelligence updates, AI Defense ensures robust protection against evolving AI-related risks.

XecGuard is CyCraft’s LLM Firewall for trustworthy, agentic AI, designed to protect enterprise AI systems from prompt injection, jailbreak, prompt extraction, data leakage, unsafe outputs, and agentic workflow risks. Built on CyCraft’s red teaming and blue teaming experience across government, finance, and high-tech manufacturing, XecGuard goes beyond model-level defenses by combining AI guardrails, cybersecurity controls, compliance protection, and risk response strategies for real-world enterprise AI adoption. It is positioned as a plug-and-play LoRA security module that can strengthen LLM defenses without requiring changes to the underlying model architecture, helping teams add protection quickly while preserving performance. XecGuard is built on proprietary security datasets and multi-stage fine-tuning techniques, enabling LLMs to better resist adversarial prompts, malicious manipulation, and attempts to extract protected instructions or sensitive information.