Exclusive Interview with Cisco’s Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel (2025)

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Unlike traditional security solutions, Cisco’s AI Defense is integrated directly into network infrastructure, providing consistent controls and protection at scale across all AI apps.

Cisco’s AI Defense combines two protections: monitoring third-party AI app usage and protecting sensitive data in custom AI development — addressing the growing risks of data leakage and unauthorized access.

As enterprises move into a multi-model, multi-cloud world, Cisco is preparing AI Defense to tackle the growing complexity of AI security — where vulnerabilities can exist at both model and application levels.

Jeetu Patel believes that companies who are not AI-forward will no longer be relevant in the future. With AI Defense, Cisco aims to remove the biggest barrier to adoption at the enterprise level — safety and security concerns.

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