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Yaron Singer

VP of AI and Security at Foundation

Foundation AI

Yaron Singer is VP of AI and Security at Foundation AI, Cisco. He was previously CEO and co-founder of Robust Intelligence which was recently acquired by Cisco. Before Robust Intelligence, Yaron was a tenured Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University, a researcher at Google AI and consulting researcher at Microsoft. He is the recipient of multiple awards, including the NSF CAREER award, the DARPA award, the Sloan Fellowship, the Facebook faculty award, the Google faculty award, the 2010 Facebook Graduate Fellowship, the 2009 Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship, and best student paper award at the ACM Web Search and Data Mining conference. He is also an active investor in startups that work at the intersection of AI and security as well as an advisor to leading cybersecurity companies on AI.

Articles

August 6, 2025

SECURITY

Foundation-sec-8B-Instruct: An Out-of-the-Box Security Copilot

2 min read

Foundation-sec-8B-Instruct layers instruction fine-tuning on top of our domain-focused base model, giving you a chat-native copilotthat understands security.

June 9, 2025

SECURITY
Yaron Singer
Amin Karbasi

Foundation-sec-8b-reasoning: World’s First Security Reasoning Model

4 min read

Foundation AI's second release—Foundation-sec-8b-reasoning is designed to designed to bring enhanced analytical capabilities to complex security workflows.

April 28, 2025

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SECURITY

Foundation AI: Robust Intelligence for Cybersecurity

4 min read

Foundation AI is a Cisco organization dedicated to bridging the gap between the promise of AI and its practical application in cybersecurity.

April 28, 2025

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SECURITY

Foundation-sec-8b: Cisco Foundation AI’s First Open-Source Security Model

4 min read

Foundation AI's first release — Llama-3.1-FoundationAI-SecurityLLM-base-8B — is designed to improve response time, expand capacity, and proactively reduce risk.