Cisco has launched the Cisco AI Assistant for Security to aid in decision-making, integrating existing tools, and automating complex tasks.
Trained on one of the most comprehensive security data sets, which analyses over 550 billion security events every day across the internet, email, endpoints, networks, and applications, Cisco expects the AI assistant to “reframe how organisations think about cybersecurity outcomes”.
The Cisco AI Assistant for Security is being deployed across the entire Security Cloud, Cisco’s unified, AI-powered security platform.
Jeetu Patel, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Security and Collaboration at Cisco, believes this security solution will give defenders against cyber-attacks the advantage: “To be an AI-first company, you must be a data-first company.
With our extensive native telemetry, Cisco is uniquely positioned to deliver cybersecurity solutions that allow businesses to confidently operate at machine scale, augmenting what humans can do alone.
“Today’s announcement is a monumental step forward. This advancement will help tip the scales in favour of defenders, empowering customers with AI built pervasively throughout the Cisco Security Cloud.”
According to the Cisco Talos 2023 Year in Review Report, ransomware and extortion attacks now account for 20 percent of Cisco Talos Incident Response engagements this year. Attacks on network devices have reportedly become more sophisticated, which calls for “machine-scale defences”, Cisco says.
As part of the AI assistant’s analysis capabilities, it can understand the impact, scope, and triage of security events and perform root cause analysis while responding to policy design.
The Cisco AI Assistant for Security will first go live as an AI Assistant for Firewall Policy in the Cisco Firewall Management Center and Cisco Defense Orchestrator to set and maintain policies and firewall rules. Natural language can be leveraged to get rule recommendations and remove duplicate rules, misconfigured policies, and complex workflows.
