When “Good Enough” Hallucination Rates Aren’t Good Enough (and Why the Agentic AI Hype Misses the Point)
Vendors will tell you their latest models “hallucinate less. That’s true in a narrow, benchmark sense—but even the best numbers are far from non-zero, and they vary widely by task and context. OpenAI’s 2025 paper, Why Language Models Hallucinate, captures the issue precisely: “Hallucinations are not a mysterious artifact of ... Read More
Cyber Risk Isn’t a Backlog Problem. It’s a Parallel Processing Problem.
After nearly a decade of working with Fortune 500 CISOs, I’ve learned two universal truths: Everyone has too many vulnerabilities. Nobody has enough Advil. The vulnerability backlog is like laundry. No matter how many loads you run, it just piles up again. And yet, boards keep asking the same question: ... Read More
Safer Conversational AI for Cybersecurity: The BIX Approach
Here’s a scenario security teams increasingly face. A user—or an attacker pretending to be one—types something like: This is how many prompt injection attempts begin. The phrase looks harmless, but it’s a red flag: the user is telling the AI to forget its built‑in rules. What follows is often hidden ... Read More
Fast Answers, Less Noise: Meet BX5, Our New AI Engine, and the Heavily Updated BIX
Cybersecurity can quickly spiral out of control. Dashboards pile up, alerts never stop buzzing, and vulnerabilities keep pouring in faster than teams can handle. That’s exactly why we built BX5, our latest AI engine, and enhanced our GenAI cybersecurity assistant, BIX—to bring clarity and speed back into your security operations ... Read More
The Limits of GenAI in Cybersecurity and How to Bridge the Gap
In today’s cybersecurity landscape, Generative AI (GenAI), powered by technologies like Large Language Models (LLMs), has emerged as a game-changer. GenAI’s ability to process vast amounts of information, recognize patterns, and deliver engaging, human-like interactions makes it a powerful tool for detecting threats, analyzing data, and streamlining workflows. However, GenAI ... Read More
Balbix is recognized in Forrester’s CRQ Solutions Landscape, Q4 2024
Last week, Balbix was recognized in the Forrester Cyber Risk Quantification (CRQ) Solutions Landscape, Q4 2024. You can read the report here. Increasingly, CRQ has become a key tool for security leaders for executive reporting, risk prioritization, ROI analysis, and more. Balbix is at the forefront of these discussions. While ... Read More
The Story of BIX, a Specialized AI Agent for Cybersecurity, Built with NVIDIA AI
BIX isn’t just an AI assistant—it’s a game-changer in cybersecurity. With BIX, organizations can instantly get clear, actionable answers on everything from vulnerabilities to threat analysis and risk mitigation, transforming massive data into precise insights, risk reduction strategies with quantifiable ROI. But how did this revolutionary AI come to life? ... Read More
Balbix D3: A New Dawn for Faster Burndown of Exposures and Vulnerabilities
Cybersecurity is a race against time. With attackers becoming increasingly sophisticated, the ability to identify, prioritize, and mitigate vulnerabilities faster than adversaries can exploit them is paramount. While visibility into exposures and vulnerabilities is crucial, it’s only the first step—without the ability to take effective action, visibility alone falls short ... Read More
A Cybersecurity AI Assistant: The Pricey Addition You Don’t Need—Or Do You?
You’ve probably seen all the buzz lately—announcements about cybersecurity AI assistants promising to revolutionize the way companies defend against threats. With so much noise in the industry, it’s tough to know whether an AI assistant is worth the investment or just an expensive gimmick. In this 2-part blog, let’s dive ... Read More
Balbix Recognized in Three 2024 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ Reports
A couple of weeks ago, Balbix was recognized as a Representative Vendor in the newly created Exposure Assessment Platforms (EAPs) category in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ reports for Security Operations and Managing Operational Technology, 2024. In the report, Gartner mentioned that deploying “the EAP platform has high benefits, with 20-50% ... Read More
