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. And today we are very happy to announce the availability of our newest innovations.

The Balbix BX5 engine represents a huge leap forward in how we process massive amounts of cybersecurity data, combining advanced differential processing with specialized small language models (SLMs). These SLMs drastically boost the speed and accuracy of cybersecurity analysis, allowing quicker fine-tuning and rapid adaptation to new threats. For instance, BX5 can quickly differentiate between the exposure of two vulnerability instances of the same CVE on a single asset, accurately pinpointing which instance poses an immediate risk due to its unique runtime and configuration. When evaluating the same CVE across different assets, BX5 intelligently prioritizes threats by assessing specific attack paths, security controls, TTP interactions, and asset criticalities. This analysis is automatically updated any time any of the underlying data changes and trigger downstream (hopefully automated) workflows. This precision helps security and IT teams effectively cut through the noise and focus on addressing the most critical threats first.

BX5 also enhances the way asset telemetry from all connected tools is analyzed, boosting confidence in risk management decisions. By providing targeted recommendations to improve asset visibility, BX5 ensures teams maintain the level of insight necessary to run an effective security program.

Early feedback from our customers underscores BX5’s effectiveness. Traditional tools like Qualys, Rapid7, Tenable, and Wiz often highlight overwhelming numbers of critical and high vulnerabilities—BX5 can reduce this noise by more than 90%. For each deprioritized vulnerability, BX5 clearly identifies mitigating factors and provides transparent reasoning backed by solid data. This dynamic prioritization also adapts as the effectiveness of your existing controls (like EDR) improves over time, helping teams avoid unnecessary out-of-cycle patching. Customers using BX5 have experienced an average 85% reduction in mean-time-to-mitigate (MTTM) critical and high-risk exposures within weeks. As the CISO of a leading healthcare provider put it: “Tenable is too noisy, and Wiz is too chatty. Balbix finds and delivers the right insights for precise action.”

The next piece of innovation we are delivering today: our updated GenAI assistant, BIX, also delivers significantly enhanced capabilities, now responding 66% faster to complex cybersecurity inquiries. The new BIX integrates advanced chain-of-thought reasoning with real-time web search capabilities, providing comprehensive insights into emerging threats, exploits, and regulatory developments.

As people familiar using GenAI for cybersecurity will recognize, the core tradeoff is between achieving high precision through detailed reasoning and maintaining low latency and efficient performance. Balbix has carefully optimized the tradeoff between reasoning depth and precision in BIX. By dynamically adjusting reasoning complexity based on cybersecurity context, BIX applies detailed, step-by-step inference when addressing critical security challenges, while utilizing streamlined reasoning for routine operations.

Top solve for this key tradeoff, we picked a operating zone where the system delivers 95%+ precision for 50,000 sample questions drawn from typical queries from various stakeholders who use BIX: CISOs, vulnerability management, IT, business risk owners and the CFO. This approach allows BIX to consistently deliver highly precise, interpretable, and actionable insights without sacrificing performance, thus effectively bridging precision and efficiency in cybersecurity risk assessment.

Additionally, BIX supports multi-modal responses, including visuals like charts, graphs, and trend analytics, enabling faster, intuitive decision-making. We’ve also streamlined workflows through BIX’s ability to directly create projects, tickets, and reports, dramatically reducing manual overhead. This automation frees security analysts from repetitive administrative tasks, empowering them to focus more on strategic activities. This not only accelerates response times but also ensures consistent tracking of incidents and significantly reduces human error, enhancing overall security posture

BIX’s new conversation-sharing feature further boosts collaboration, allowing teams to easily retain, revisit, and share crucial security dialogues. This ensures everyone remains aligned and informed, improving decision-making speed, accuracy, and team responsiveness to emerging threats.

At Balbix, we’re reshaping how security teams operate. Our innovations in BX5 and BIX deliver actionable, immediate insights, dramatically simplifying risk identification and mitigation. With Balbix, CISOs and their teams can finally move beyond dashboards, spending less time searching for answers and more time proactively protecting their organizations.

To experience the power of BX5 and BIX or arrange a personalized demo, visit our website at www.balbix.com.