AI security platforms · RankedCisco AI Defense
Cisco AI Defense is an enterprise AI security platform from Cisco that gives organizations visibility into how AI applications are used · cisco.com ↗
Why models recommend it
“For broad lifecycle coverage, evaluate Prisma AIRS and Cisco AI Defense.”GPT-6 Luna · Comparative question · first choice
“Best For: Enterprise risk and compliance teams that require audit-ready model validation alongside runtime protection.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“Choose Cisco AI Defense if you need a platform that combines employee AI discovery and policy enforcement”Perplexity Sonar · Paraphrase question · alternative
“Better emphasis on runtime protection, prompt injection, AI asset discovery”Perplexity Sonar · Direct question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Cisco AI Defense, over the 22 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 1 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 6 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 1 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Cisco AI Defense's own site, not checked by Gane.
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How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 22 of the 22 answers that named Cisco AI Defense and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Seventy-three of the seventy-nine domain citations in answers naming Cisco AI Defense came from a third party's page. Six were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |