aiqbench analysis
Cisco's AI Defense is joining ServiceNow's Control Tower Alliance as a founding member, adding security scanning for AI assets such as models, agents, and MCP servers to ServiceNow's AI governance platform. The announcement is a partnership and integration claim from the vendors, so the practical questions are how the qualification and certification process works in practice and how much it actually reduces risk for enterprises governing AI at scale.
Cisco AI Defense joins ServiceNow’s Control Tower Alliance
If you govern AI in ServiceNow, Cisco AI Defense is the security engine you plug in, and it already works today. Now Cisco joins the Control Tower Alliance as a founding member to build on it.
If your team governs artificial intelligence (AI) in ServiceNow, you already track which AI assets you run, who owns them, and which business services depend on them. The harder part is knowing whether those assets are safe: whether a model carries malicious code or whether an agent can be talked into leaking data. A security tool can find those problems. On its own, it can’t…
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