By Simon Sharwood
Publication Date: 2025-12-17 06:24:00
Cisco has decided its homegrown AI models are ready to power its products, starting with its Duo Identity Intelligence offering.
The model Cisco will use is called “Foundation-Sec-1.1-8B-Instruct”. As described on the Hugging Face model-mart, it’s an open-weight, 8-billion-parameter instruction-tuned “Auto-regressive language model that uses an optimized transformer architecture,” namely Meta Llama-3.1-8B backbone.
Cisco tuned the model for cybersecurity applications and optimized it for three uses:
- SOC Acceleration: Automating triage, summarization, case note generation, and evidence collection.
- Proactive Threat Defense: Simulating attacks, prioritizing vulnerabilities, mapping TTPs, and modeling attacker behavior.
- Engineering Enablement: Providing security assistance, validating configurations, assessing compliance evidence, and improving security posture.
In a Tuesday post, Cisco revealed it’s using the model with Duo Identity Intelligence, a service that…
