post<\/a>, Cisco revealed it\u2019s using the model with Duo Identity Intelligence, a service that analyzes who logs on to networks, where they log on from, and which devices they use.<\/p>\n\u201cBy examining post authentication signals, the system identifies patterns that traditional access controls often miss, including unusual geographic activity, abnormal privilege usage, and indications of MFA fatigue attempts or session hijacking,\u201d Cisco explained.<\/p>\n
The product alerts users to potential identity issues in a weekly email digest that Cisco will now compose with help from its new model.<\/p>\n
\u201cProducing such a digest requires an artificial intelligence model that understands identity behavior, can interpret long chains of events, and communicates insights in a way that aligns with how security administrators make decisions,\u201d Cisco\u2019s post states, adding that general-purpose models \u201care not always tuned for the nuance and precision required for identity security and often introduce external dependencies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Using its own model, Cisco says, will deliver \u201csummaries that are more accurate, more readable, and more aligned with real security workflows.\u201d<\/p>\n
The company also says the content of the digests will become \u201cnoticeably stronger \u2026 clearer and more consistent. Prioritization improves, making it easier to identify what demands immediate attention. Insights feel more relevant to each environment, and recommendations are expressed in a more actionable way.\u201d Cisco reckons you\u2019ll therefore end up using Identity Intelligence more often, because the model will produce info that demands action.<\/p>\n
The improved digest is the result of collaboration between the teams that develop Duo and Cisco\u2019s foundation models.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth groups created a tuned prompt stack that significantly improved output quality and aligned the model with the analytical style expected in the digest,\u201d Cisco\u2019s post states.<\/p>\n
Over 2,000 Cisco customers receive the digest. If you\u2019re one of them, let us know if the weekly email has improved!<\/p>\n
The model can run on-prem or in the cloud, and do much more than write nice email digests. Cisco says its downstream uses include:<\/p>\n
Prioritizing vulnerabilities based on contextual risk<\/p>\n
Extracting compliance evidence from documents<\/p>\n
Generating red-team attack plans and threat models<\/p>\n
Predicting attacker next steps in active investigations<\/p>\n
In early November, Cisco told<\/a> The Register it\u2019s working on a 17-billion parameter foundation model, and \u201ca whole phalanx\u201d of other AI. Foundation-Sec-1.1-8B-Instruct seems to come from the phalanx, as while it is a foundation model it is nine billion parameters short of the forthcoming model Cisco mentioned.\u00ae<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cisco has decided its homegrown AI models are ready to power its products, starting with its Duo Identity…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-189243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}