By Berry Zwets
Publication Date: 2026-01-30 10:51:00
Cisco Foundation AI is getting new agentic security tools to help companies secure autonomous AI systems. These include Foundation-sec-8B-Reasoning, a cybersecurity reasoning model; an adaptive AI search framework; and the open-source threat-hunting assistant PEAK. The tools offer transparency and keep people involved in the decision-making process.
Foundation-sec-8B-Reasoning is an open-weight reasoning model for cybersecurity use cases. The model is optimized for multistep security analysis, including threat modeling, attack path analysis, and incident investigation.
The model produces explicit reasoning traces that allow analysts to understand how conclusions are reached. This supports validation, trust, and regulatory requirements in high-impact security environments. The focus on transparency is crucial. After all, organizations must be able to explain how AI systems arrive at security decisions.
