Enterprise networking and security leader Cisco has unveiled the Cisco AI Assistant for Security, which marks a major step in making artificial intelligence (AI) pervasive in the Security Cloud, Cisco’s unified, AI-driven, cross-domain security platform.
The AI Assistant will help customers make informed decisions, augment their tool capabilities, and automate complex tasks.
The new Cisco AI Assistant for Security is trained on one of the largest security-focused data sets in the world, which analyzes more than 550 billion security events each day across web, email, endpoints, networks and applications. It can understand event triage, impact and scope, root cause analysis and policy design.
With this data, the AI Assistant aims to close the gap between cybersecurity intent and outcomes. All of Cisco’s AI capabilities are built securely and align with Cisco’s Responsible AI Framework.
Continuing the rapid pace of innovation, Cisco introduces the following:
- AI Assistant for Firewall Policy: The Cisco AI Assistant for Security is first going live within the Cisco Cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center and Cisco Defense Orchestrator to solve the big challenge of setting and maintaining complex policies and firewall rules. Administrators can now use natural language to discover policies and get rule recommendations, eliminating duplicate rules, misconfigured policies and complex workflows with increased visibility as well as accelerated troubleshooting and configuration tasks.
- AI-powered Encrypted Visibility Engine for All Firewall Models: The Encrypted Visibility Engine leverages billions of samples, including sandboxed malware samples, to determine if the encrypted traffic is transporting malware. It can tell which operating system the traffic is coming from and what client application is generating that – all without the need for decryption.
