Tech Mahindra Partners with Cisco to Launch AI-Driven Security Service Edge Managed Offering

On July 24, 2026, Tech Mahindra and Cisco announced a partnership to deliver a managed Security Service Edge (SSE) offering built on Cisco Secure Access. Tech Mahindra will handle deployment, integration, and day-to-day operations, while the announcement disclosed no customers, pricing, or availability date. The underlying Cisco platform integrates zero-trust access, secure web gateways, and data loss prevention. According to Unite.AI, its AI Access features provide visibility into employees' use of third-party generative-AI tools and flag corporate data being sent to them, while separate controls issue short-lived access tokens and inspect autonomous-agent traffic for risks such as prompt-injection-driven data exfiltration. The announcement follows previous Tech Mahindra-Cisco security offerings, while LTIMindtree has launched a comparable managed SSE service on the same platform.

Tech Mahindra-Cisco managed SSE partnership

• ▪Under the partnership, Tech Mahindra will manage the deployment, integration, and day-to-day operations of the Cisco Secure Access platform for enterprise customers
• ▪Tech Mahindra and Cisco previously collaborated on a Splunk-based Cyber Resilience Fabric in May 2026 and a managed offering for Cisco Multicloud Defense in June 2025
• ▪Tech Mahindra announced a partnership with Cisco on July 24, 2026, to deliver a managed Security Service Edge offering built on Cisco Secure Access
• ▪The July 24, 2026, announcement did not disclose any specific customers, pricing, financial terms, or general availability dates for the managed offering

Security Service Edge consolidation trend

• ▪Cisco Secure Access holds United States government FedRAMP authorization and, according to Cisco, earned a top rating in SE Labs' first zero-trust access test
• ▪Cisco Secure Access is a zero-trust Security Service Edge platform that integrates VPN-as-a-service, DNS-layer filtering, identity checks through Duo, and experience monitoring through ThousandEyes
• ▪Security Service Edge platforms consolidate previously separate security controls, including secure web gateways, cloud access security brokers, zero-trust network access, firewall-as-a-service, and data loss prevention

Cisco Secure Access AI capabilities

• ▪Cisco Secure Access features AI Access capabilities designed to give security teams visibility into employees' use of third-party generative-AI tools and flag corporate data being sent to those tools
• ▪According to Unite.AI, Cisco Secure Access includes controls for discovering and registering autonomous AI agents, issuing short-lived least-privilege access tokens, and inspecting agent traffic at runtime for risks such as prompt-injection-driven data exfiltration

Managed security services competition

• ▪Tech Mahindra expanded its managed SASE portfolio by striking a parallel partnership with Fortinet in March 2026
• ▪Systems integrator LTIMindtree has launched a competing managed Security Service Edge service built on the Cisco Secure Access platform