Robust Intelligence, Now Part of Cisco, Recognized as a 2024 Gartner® Cool Vendor™ for AI Security

Cisco is excited to share that Robust Intelligence, a recently acquired AI security startup, has been mentioned in the first ever 2024 Gartner Cool Vendors for AI Security report.

As stated by Gartner, “Security and risk management leaders face operational challenges, compliance concerns and attacks aimed at AI systems. This Cool Vendor research identifies providers with innovative ways of securing AI applications, supporting AI trust, risk and security management capabilities.”

Moreover, the inclusion of Robust Intelligence celebrates the innovative work the team done since day one — creating the first-ever AI Firewall, undergoing extensive research into topics like fine tuning and algorithmic jailbreaking, and developing an end-to-end platform for AI security which has become the template for our industry.

“We are incredibly excited and thrilled to be recognized in the Gartner Cool Vendors report,” said Yaron Singer, co-founder of Robust Intelligence and VP of AI and Engineering at Cisco. “We think this is a testament not only to the groundbreaking work we’ve done at Robust Intelligence, but more broadly to the state of AI security today. In our view, when a leading global analyst firm like Gartner publishes a report like this, it reaffirms that AI security is one of the most pressing challenges enterprises face today.”

Why Robust Intelligence is a Cool Vendor for AI Security

Unmanaged AI risk can introduce any number of financial, legal, and reputational risks for any business adopting this transformative new technology. The responsibility of AI security is shared by those developing AI applications and the security and governance teams protecting sensitive data at an organizational level. The right AI security solution should facilitate secure and responsible development while also enforcing runtime controls after deployment.

As a pioneer in this space, Robust Intelligence introduced the first-ever AI Firewall to the market as part of their comprehensive AI security platform. Organizations at the cutting edge of AI innovation trust Robust Intelligence to protect their AI applications against hundreds of safety and security risks.

The Robust Intelligence platform comprises three core components, protecting AI applications across their entire lifecycles:

• Model file scanning proactively identifies security vulnerabilities in open-source components of the AI supply chain, such as models from Hugging Face. If undetected, these malicious insertions could otherwise compromise an entire AI system.
• AI Validation automates safety and security testing for AI models, helping developers identify and mitigate these risks earlier in the process. This algorithmic red teaming analyzes susceptibility to hundreds of attack techniques and threat categories for AI.
• AI Protection provides runtime security for production AI applications against a wide variety of attacks and undesirable responses. This coverage spans hundreds of categories and continue to grow based on cutting-edge AI threat research.

The engine behind the Robust Intelligence platform is powered by three proprietary elements: algorithmic red teaming technology, a world-class AI threat intelligence pipeline, and policy mappings. The Robust Intelligence team has also helped establish AI security standards through our collaboration with MITRE, NIST, OWASP, and other entities. This deep experience helps our customers to mitigate a wide variety of AI threats and monitor compliance with relevant policies. It also enables us to deliver on-the-fly updates to keep our customers protected from a dynamic threat landscape.

Robust Intelligence continues to be at the forefront of AI security innovation, from creating the industry’s first AI Firewall to conducting breakthrough AI research. Topics have included algorithmic jailbreaking, the risks of fine-tuning foundation models, the extraction of training data, and exploits in several state-of-the-art LLMs.

Robust Intelligence’s technology, integrated into the Cisco Security Cloud, strengthens our ability to protect AI applications and models against a wide range of threats.

We could not be more excited that Robust Intelligence was named a Cool Vendor and look forward to taking AI security to an unprecedented scale as part of Cisco!

Gartner, Cool Vendors for AI Security, Jeremy D’Hoinne, Bart Willemsen, Avivah Litan, Dennis Xu, 23 October 2024.

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