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AI Supply Chain Risk Management

Scan model files, repositories, and agents to identify malicious components and vulnerabilities before they enter your environment.

Protect the Foundation of Your AI Applications

Third-party assets make AI development more accessible than ever, but they also introduce risk. AI Defense automatically scans these components to identify potential threats, proactively informing developers and helping to ensure that your AI applications are built on trusted foundations.

Three Pillars of AI Supply Chain Security

Scan Open-Source Models

Millions of open-source models are available online. AI Defense scans models in your registry to identify malicious behaviors, model backdoors, and potential vulnerabilities before you build on compromised foundations.

Build Trusted AI Agents

AI agents rely on protocols, tools, and resources that bring complex new risks. AI Defense connects to enterprise MCP servers and repositories to identify threats like tool poisoning, data exfiltration, and arbitrary code execution.

Integrate with Development Workflows

Supply chain scanning supports multiple file formats, enabling developers to scan individual assets or entire repositories in minutes as a critical early step in secure AI development.

How AI Supply Chain Scanning Works

Screenshot revealing vulnerabilities across files

Scan Open-Source Models

Millions of open-source models are available online, offering AI developers a multitude of options. Nevertheless, developers must be wary of malicious behaviors, model backdoors, and other potential vulnerabilities. AI Defense scans models in your registry to identify and flag these risks before you build on a compromised foundation.

Screenshot displaying enterprise MCP servers identifying threats

Build AI Agents You Can Trust

Because AI agents are more capable and autonomous systems, they rely on a variety of protocols, tools, and resources. These components bring greater potential but also complex new risks. AI Defense connects to enterprise Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and repositories to proactively identify threats like tool poisoning, data exfiltration, and arbitrary code execution.

Screenshot displaying results of model scans and vulnerabilities

Integrate with AI Development

Supply chain scanning is a critical early step in secure AI development. AI Defense supports multiple file formats, enabling developers to scan individual assets or entire repositories in minutes.

Establish a Secure Foundation for AI Innovation

Scan Files and Repositories

Whether a single model or an entire AI repository, supply chain scans are easy to initiate and done in minutes.

Verify Assets from Any Source

Programmatically scans every AI asset as it enters your private repository, regardless of origin.

Align with Security Standards

Vulnerabilities are mapped to AI Security Taxonomy for better communication and transparency.

Industry Standards

Aligned with Leading AI Security Frameworks

AI Supply Chain Risk Management maps findings to industry-recognized frameworks, giving your security team the context needed to prioritize remediation and communicate risk effectively across the organization.

  • OWASP LLM Top 10 vulnerability mapping
  • MITRE ATLAS adversarial threat alignment
  • NIST AI Risk Management Framework compliance
OWASP MITRE NIST AI security standards compliance mapping

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Secure Your AI Supply Chain

Our Cisco-certified specialists can help you evaluate, license, and deploy AI Supply Chain Risk Management to protect your organization from compromised models, malicious agents, and vulnerable AI components.

  • Scan open-source models for backdoors and malicious behaviors
  • Validate AI agents and MCP server configurations
  • Integrate supply chain scanning into development workflows
  • Response from a certified Cisco specialist within one business day