Cisco Systems (CSCO) and ServiceNow (NOW) said Monday that they are expanding their partnership to help businesses securely adopt and scale AI by integrating Cisco's infrastructure and security platforms with ServiceNow's AI-driven and security solutions.

The companies said the collaboration will provide customers with a unified approach to protecting AI applications and ensuring governance by combining Cisco AI Defense with ServiceNow's security operations tools.

The combination of Cisco AI Defense and ServiceNow SecOps would help build capabilities such as AI workload discovery, automated vulnerability management, real-time protection, incident response, and compliance tracking, they added.

Initial trials will begin soon, with broader availability expected in H2, the companies said, adding that further integrations are planned later this year.