Cyware’s New AI Workflows Add Muscle To Its Quarterback AI Threat Intel Platform

Cyware’s Quarterback AI platform has been upgraded with AI Fabric, a new feature designed to accelerate threat intelligence and security workflows, the company says.

Cybersecurity and threat intelligence company Cyware recently unveiled new capabilities to its Quarterback AI offering to help organizations, particularly ones in the midmarket, fight ongoing AI-fueled threats.

AI Fabric is a new upgrade to Cyware’s Quarterback AI offering, which launched in March 2024 as a copilot chat security assistant.

According to Cyware, AI Fabric combines generative, agentic and product-enhanced AI to deliver accelerated threat intelligence and security operations workflows or, in Cyware’s language, security “playbooks.”

The AI Fabric features now in Cyware’s Quarterback AI include:

• Playbook Builder Agent: An AI agent that, like a coach does for a team, assists IT leaders in creating a security playbook using an LLM interface that creates workflows using natural language.

• Custom Code Generator: Another AI agent that generates custom code for playbooks.

• Playbook Runlog Debugger: This agent helps IT teams debug issues related to security playbooks.

• Threat Summarization: This feature summarizes threat intelligence reporting and issues like Indicators of Compromise, malware, etc.

• Advanced Threat Intel Crawler: A browser plug-in that gathers threat intelligence from websites and transforms it in real time into structured data with the purpose of saving security analysts time from manually scraping threat data.

“Paramount to Cyware’s direction is our customers’ success, and we are excited to be able to ease the practitioner’s day-to-day operations and accelerate their workflows with an AI Fabric approach,” said Sachin Jade, chief product officer of Cyware, in a news release. “Our latest innovations in Cyware Quarterback AI tackle complex playbook creation, manual threat data collection, disconnected threat context, and delayed threat detection and response with the best AI methods available.”

Cybersecurity companies have increasingly been incorporating AI to battle the AI-heightened threat landscape.

In the MES podcast, Ready.Set.Midmarket! Jawahar “Jawa” Sivasankaran, president of Cyware, spoke about his company’s pivot to address AI threats.

“What was initially the focus on cybersecurity technologies was what was traditionally perimeter security: firewalls, intrusion detection, prevention systems, all of that. They did their job relatively well, VPNs and things like that. ... Then fast forward 10-plus years, clearly there was a need to analyze data because there are events happening. There are alerts that security professionals have to look at,” he said on the podcast episode.

Sivasankaran delved deeper into Cyware’s AI vision and road map and the company’s offerings for the midmarket.

“What we are doing at Cyware is taking a focused approach. What we don’t want to do is go after the easy button, which in some ways, we could have gone out and built a couple of LLM wrappers to solve specific SecOps problems, like Sockbots. That’s kind of what I call it. There’s still value in it, make no mistake about it. But the true value that somebody like us, that we can bring to our customers and organizations using us, is leveraging AI in a way where it is connected to the cyber threat intelligence framework so that when you’re leveraging AI for CTI functionalities, looking at high-priority threats that you have to go after, prioritizing them or automating the action that you want to take based on AI or leveraging AI as a tool. So that’s what we are doing. Again, focus on who we are, focus on our strengths,” he said.