Foundation-Sec-8B-Instruct: An Out-Of-The-Box Security Copilot
Cisco, Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
When we released Llama-3.1-FoundationAI-SecurityLLM-base-8B (Foundation-sec-8B) in April, we proved that an eight-billion-parameter model-trained exclusively on security data-can outperform general-purpose LLMs many times its size on cybersecurity benchmarks.
Practitioners loved the results, yet they kept asking:
'Can I interact with it like ChatGPT-no extra scaffolding, just prompt and go?'
Now you can. Llama-3.1-FoundationAI-SecurityLLM-instruct-8B (Foundation-sec-8B-Instruct) layers instruction fine-tuning on top of our domain-focused base model, giving you a chat-native copilot that understands security context and follows natural-language directions straight out of the box.