Bell and Cohere announced Wednesday the deployment of a domain-specific cybersecurity AI model within Bell Cyber’s security operations in Canada.
Built using Cohere’s secure enterprise AI technology and Bell Cyber’s cybersecurity data and operational expertise, this customized model is being integrated into Bell Cyber’s Autonomous Security Operations Centre (ASOC). It is designed to analyze and summarize complex security information, surface content most relevant to an investigation, and support standardized investigative workflows, reducing the time analysts spend gathering and interpreting information and allowing them to focus on validating threats and directing the response, Bell said in a press release.
“The model is now running in production on Bell AI Fabric infrastructure, with AI processing and sensitive security information remaining within a Canadian-hosted environment,” reads the press release. “This architecture gives Bell Cyber greater control over the model, data and operations supporting the service, adding a sovereign AI capability to its ASOC for Canadian businesses and public sector organizations.”
Bell and Cohere made their announcement at the second annual Bell Cybersecurity Summit taking place in Toronto on Wednesday. It marks the first customer-facing solution developed through Bell and Cohere’s strategic AI collaboration announced last year.
“AI is changing both the scale of cyber risk and the tools available to defenders,” John Menezes, president and CEO of Bell Cyber, said in the press release. “By grounding Cohere’s enterprise AI technology in Bell Cyber’s data, workflows and operational expertise, we have developed a model purpose-built to support cybersecurity investigations. It can help analysts move from alert to informed action faster and more consistently, while Canadian-hosted processing gives us greater control over sensitive security information and keeps human expertise at the centre of critical decisions.”
“Cohere builds secure enterprise AI solutions tailored to each organization’s data, workflows, and operating requirements,” Michael Pelosi, Cohere’s country manager for Canada, said in a statement. “This collaboration applies that approach to cybersecurity — combining Cohere’s technology and globally recognized model customization capabilities with Bell Cyber’s domain expertise and Bell AI Fabric’s Canadian infrastructure to create a specialized capability for one of the most demanding enterprise environments.”
