Robust Intelligence

Robust Intelligence is an AI security and validation platform that helps organizations protect their AI systems against adversarial attacks, data integrity issues, and model failures. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company was acquired by Cisco in 2024, bringing its AI security capabilities into Cisco's broader enterprise security portfolio. Robust Intelligence emerged from cutting-edge research in adversarial machine learning and has established itself as a leader in the AI security and validation space. The platform's core capability is its AI Firewall, which provides real-time protection for AI models in production by detecting and blocking adversarial inputs, prompt injections, data poisoning attempts, and other attacks that can compromise model integrity and safety. This continuous validation approach ensures that AI models perform reliably under real-world conditions, including when facing intentional manipulation. The AI Firewall can be deployed as middleware between applications and AI models, providing a security layer that operates independently of the underlying model architecture. Robust Intelligence's testing suite provides comprehensive pre-deployment validation of AI models, evaluating robustness, bias, performance, and security across hundreds of automated test scenarios. The platform can identify vulnerabilities and failure modes that might not be apparent during standard development testing, helping organizations address risks before models reach production. For large language models (LLMs), the platform includes specialized testing for prompt injection vulnerabilities, hallucination detection, and content safety evaluation. The platform supports continuous monitoring of deployed models, tracking for data drift, performance degradation, and emerging security threats. Robust Intelligence integrates with popular ML frameworks and CI/CD pipelines, enabling organizations to incorporate security and validation checks directly into their model development and deployment workflows. Following the Cisco acquisition, Robust Intelligence benefits from Cisco's global enterprise reach, sales infrastructure, and security expertise, but questions remain about how the platform will evolve within the larger organization. Pricing and packaging may change as the product is integrated into Cisco's portfolio. For organizations prioritizing AI security and model validation, Robust Intelligence offers some of the most advanced capabilities available, though its model risk management features are focused on security and robustness rather than the full spectrum of regulatory compliance and governance documentation.