Cisco creating new security model using 30 years of data

"Cisco's current hero model is Foundation-Sec-8b, an eight-billion parameter effort that it uses in several products, and suggests for use on tasks such as automated processing of security alerts, reviewing code to find potential security issues, and suggesting workflows that prioritize security. At the Asia-Pacific edition of its Cisco Live event in Melbourne today, Cisco's senior vice president and chief product officer for security, Raj Chopra, said Cisco is working on a new model that will use 17 billion parameters."

"As was the case with Foundation-Sec-8B, Cisco will train the new model on threat information, incident summaries, red team playbooks, and other info it's collected. Chopra said this new model is not a successor to Foundation-Sec-8B, but instead a fresh effort because Cisco's goal is to build a model that can both detect threats and advise on steps to address them."

Cisco currently uses Foundation-Sec-8B, an eight-billion-parameter model, for automated processing of security alerts, reviewing code for security issues, and suggesting security-prioritized workflows. A new 17-billion-parameter model is under development to both detect threats and advise on remediation steps. The new model will be trained on threat intelligence, incident summaries, red team playbooks, and three decades of Talos threat data. Release timing is planned shortly after Christmas. Additional AI models and updates, including a recent SecureBERT update, are also being developed to enhance security tooling and product capabilities.

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