Cisco Security EA 3.0 AI Defense Runtime Essentials | Cloud Licensing — E3S-AIDEF-RT-ESS

Maintain tighter control over AI runtime security with Cisco Security EA 3.0 AI Defense Runtime Essentials from Cisco. This licensing offering is designed for organizations standardizing security coverage across enterprise environments, where consistency, procurement simplicity, and policy alignment matter as much as technical fit. For infrastructure and security teams, the value is in structured access to Cisco security capabilities through an enterprise licensing model. That makes it easier to align spend, deployment planning, and renewal management without fragmenting coverage across multiple point purchases. It is a practical fit for teams that need to support AI-related runtime operations while keeping governance and commercial terms clear. Because this is a software licensing product, the emphasis is on entitlement and program structure rather than hardware specifications. That makes it suitable for organizations that already run Cisco security architectures and want a cleaner path to extend coverage under an EA framework. For procurement teams, it supports more predictable buying cycles. For architects, it helps preserve consistency across the security stack. For operations teams, it reduces ambiguity around what is licensed, where it applies, and how it is managed. Ideal For Standardizing AI runtime security licensing across an enterprise Cisco environment Supporting procurement of security entitlements under a Cisco EA framework Extending policy-managed coverage to AI-related runtime operations Consolidating software licensing for security teams managing Cisco estates Why This Product 1 Enterprise Agreement licensing instead of ad hoc software purchases 2 Cisco-native entitlement for security program consistency 3 Designed for AI runtime coverage rather than general-purpose licensing 4 Better fit for procurement control and renewal planning