AI Evaluation & Safety
Robust Intelligence
Robust Intelligence builds an AI firewall plus continuous validation platform for production ML and LLM systems. The product evaluates models for adversarial robustness, data drift, security vulnerabilities, and policy violations before deployment, and enforces guardrails at inference time. Cisco acquired the company in August 2024 for an undisclosed amount to integrate the platform into the Cisco AI Defense product.
Why this matters in 2026
Cisco acquired Robust Intelligence in August 2024 as the cornerstone of its AI Defense product. The deal marked the moment when traditional network-security vendors began treating AI inference paths as a first-class threat surface.
Products
- AI Firewall (runtime guardrail product)
- Continuous Validation (pre-deployment risk eval)
- AI Risk Intelligence Dashboard
Primary focus
AI risk management: pre-deployment validation plus runtime guardrails for ML and LLM systems
Applied AI roles Robust Intelligence typically hires
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