Cisco and NVIDIA Elevate Security Standards for Enterprise AI Solutions
Darius Baruo Jun 10, 2025 05:44
Cisco and NVIDIA collaborate to enhance security and scalability for enterprise AI with new solutions, addressing the increasing need for secure AI deployments across industries.
Cisco and NVIDIA have joined forces to set a new benchmark in secure, scalable, and high-performance enterprise AI solutions. This collaboration was announced at the Cisco Live conference in San Diego, where the two tech giants unveiled the Cisco AI Defense and Hypershield security solutions. These solutions leverage NVIDIA AI to provide comprehensive visibility, validation, and runtime protection across AI workflows, according to NVIDIA.
Enhancing AI Security
The Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA, first introduced at the NVIDIA GTC conference in March, is designed to offer continuous monitoring and protection of AI workloads. As AI becomes integral to various industries, there is a growing demand for not just speed but also trust in AI processes. The new solutions aim to address this need, offering high-performance, scalable, and trustworthy AI responses for generative AI workloads.
The integration of Cisco AI Defense and Hypershield with NVIDIA AI ensures that every stage of the AI lifecycle is safeguarded. This is crucial for enterprises looking to deploy AI at scale confidently. The solutions include runtime visibility and monitoring of AI applications, optimizing inference performance for production AI using NVIDIA NIM microservices.
Advanced Security Features
Cisco Hypershield will soon be compatible with NVIDIA BlueField DPUs and the NVIDIA DOCA Argus framework, providing pervasive, distributed security and real-time threat detection across AI infrastructures. This integration allows organizations to maintain zero-trust security across distributed AI environments, regardless of where data and workloads are located.
Optimizing AI Networking
To meet the demands of data-hungry and latency-sensitive AI workloads, Cisco and NVIDIA have enhanced AI networking capabilities. The Cisco Intelligent Packet Flow dynamically steers traffic using real-time telemetry and congestion awareness, optimizing performance across AI fabrics. Additionally, NVIDIA Spectrum-X offers high-throughput, low-latency connectivity with advanced routing and congestion control, ensuring seamless AI operations.
Scaling AI with Flexible Solutions
To support diverse AI workloads, Cisco is expanding its AI PODs—modular, validated building blocks that allow organizations to scale AI initiatives efficiently and securely. This flexibility is crucial for enterprises running extensive AI factories or a few models. The new NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server GPU, now available with Cisco UCS C845A M8 servers, promises exceptional performance for next-generation AI applications.
By collaborating, Cisco and NVIDIA are enabling enterprises to enhance their AI capabilities while ensuring robust security and scalability. This partnership signifies a significant step forward in the deployment of secure AI solutions across industries.
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