Using LLMs to fortify cyber defenses: Sophos’s insight on strategies for using LLMs with Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker

This post is co-written with Adarsh Kyadige and Salma Taoufiq from Sophos.

As a leader in cutting-edge cybersecurity, Sophos is dedicated to safeguarding over 500,000 organizations and millions of customers across more than 150 countries. By harnessing the power of threat intelligence, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI), Sophos delivers a comprehensive range of advanced products and services. These solutions are designed to protect and defend users, networks, and endpoints against a wide array of cyber threats including phishing, ransomware, and malware. The Sophos Artificial Intelligence (AI) group (SophosAI) oversees the development and maintenance of Sophos’s major ML security technology.

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in natural language understanding and generation across diverse domains as showcased in numerous leaderboards (e.g., HELM, Hugging Face Open LLM leaderboard) that evaluate them on a myriad of generic tasks. However, their effectiveness in specialized fields like cybersecurity ...