Cisco is adding Anthropic\u2019s Claude Mythos to its AI Defense red-teaming tool. Credit: Cisco Cisco will add Anthropic\u2019s Claude Mythos to AI Defense to plan attacks on customers\u2019 own AI apps and agents, a practice called red teaming. Customers get no open prompt access, every test is logged to a named person, and it comes first to select enterprises. Cisco will add Anthropic\u2019s Claude Mythos to AI Defense, the company announced at its Cisco Live event in Melbourne.<\/p>\n
AI Defense attacks companies\u2019 own AI systems to find weak spots before hackers do. Mythos will come first to select enterprise customers, with no date set. Mythos will plan tests and come up with attack ideas against AI apps and agents, a practice known as red teaming. In July, Cisco researchers used it to push 15 chatbots past their guardrails.<\/p>\n
Customers cannot type prompts to Mythos directly. It works only on a fixed job, against systems the customer owns and has registered for testing. Every test is tied to a named person, recorded for audit and can be stopped at any time. Mythos cannot scan the wider internet, Cisco said in a blog post. \u201cEnterprises are increasingly building AI agents into their core operations and want to test those agents thoroughly before putting them into production,\u201d said Michael Moore, Anthropic\u2019s cybersecurity lead.<\/p>\n
Security firms are lining up to build Mythos into their products. Palo Alto Networks launched always-on testing on Mythos and OpenAI\u2019s cyber model in September. IBM said on Monday it plans to add Mythos to its Concert Protect tool in early 2027. That suits Anthropic, which puts Mythos inside partners\u2019 products rather than handing out the model.<\/p>\n
It released Mythos 5.2 on Monday, still only for vetted organisations. Tight controls matter: in April, an unauthorised group reached Mythos through a contractor\u2019s access. Cisco also updated its Splunk tools that track what AI agents cost and grade the quality of their work. A cost tool called Tokenomics enters private preview in December.<\/p>\n
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