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Robust Intelligence

Former AI security startup, now Cisco AI Defense

Automated platformAgents and toolsRuntime guardrailsCompliance mapping

Robust Intelligence’s technology underpins Cisco AI Defense. Its AI Model and Application Validation runs automated algorithmic red teaming across 200+ attack techniques and subcategories, in 10 languages and across text, image and audio, then generates model-specific guardrails. The team co-wrote the TAP (Tree of Attacks) jailbreak paper, presented at NeurIPS 2024.

Best for: Cisco customers who want automated model validation tied to guardrails.

Acquired by Cisco (closed Sep 2024); now Cisco AI Defense

  • ✓ Maps to OWASP
  • ✓ Maps to MITRE ATLAS
  • – Maps to the EU AI Act
  • – SOC 2 or ISO 27001
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Facts checked November 9, 2026 against the sources listed below. Robust Intelligence does not pay to appear here.

1 Legal nameRobust Intelligence
2 HeadquartersSan Francisco, CA, USA
3 Founded2019
4 TeamNot disclosed
5 What they testLLM apps, Agents and tool use, Foundation models, Multimodal, Prompt injection and jailbreaks, Data leakage, Bias and harms, Model supply chain, MCP servers
6 FrameworksMITRE ATLAS, OWASP LLM Top 10, OWASP Agentic Top 10, NIST AI RMF
7 CertificationsNot disclosed
8 Published pricesNot disclosed
9 Customers and partnersPayPal and Robert Bosch were cited as customers in 2021, before the deal.

Worth knowing before you sign

  • Standalone brand retired; the original site refused connections on Nov 9, 2026.
  • Bought only as Cisco AI Defense; no human-led engagements documented.

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Sources

  1. Cisco blog: acquisition
  2. Cisco: AI Defense datasheet
  3. SiliconANGLE: Series B
  4. arXiv: Tree of Attacks paper

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