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Best AI for cybersecurity
Security teams, SOCs and managed security providers receive thousands of alerts every day from endpoints, networks, cloud and email. AI helps sift that flow: triaging and summarising alerts, spotting unusual behaviour on the network, intercepting phishing, testing your attack surface from the outside and training staff with simulated attacks. Security assistants answer questions in plain language, write search queries and produce incident reports. Since the Cybersecurity Act (the Dutch implementation of NIS2) took effect on 15 August 2026, at least 8,000 organisations must demonstrably work on cybersecurity and report incidents within 24 hours. The technology speeds up analysis and response, but the analyst decides on intervention.
SoSafeGDPR: Strong- Provider based in the EU
- Data in the EU according to the provider
- Publishes certification/GDPR safeguards
ClaudeGDPR: Strong- Editorial score 9.0 of 10
- Elo 1506
Watch out in this field
A security tool sees everything: log files, emails, usernames and network traffic. That is personal data, so you need a data processing agreement and must know where the data is stored. Also ask whether the AI assistant is trained on your data. WithSecure (Finland) says it processes data for Luminen in AWS in Europe and does not train foundation models on customer data. Sekoia stores data in Germany or elsewhere in the EU/EEA and is ISO 27001 certified. SoSafe (France) can run self-hosted. With Microsoft Security Copilot you choose the geo of your workspace, but sharing data with Microsoft is on by default. For Charlotte AI, ESET LiveAI and Mindgard the hosting location is not public. Never let an agent act on production systems without analyst approval, and record who makes the 24-hour report under the Cybersecurity Act when an incident occurs.
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Professional tools with the strongest published GDPR safeguards first, then general assistants by suitability.
SoSafe professional toolSoSafe SE (Cologne, Germany) · EUPlatform for security awareness and human risk management with gamified training, phishing simulations and the AI chatbot Sofie, which helps employees with security questions 24/7.own modelfrom €625/month (billed annually…Strong2
Aikido Security professional toolAikido Security BV (Ghent, BE) · EU · free to tryA security platform that scans your code, dependencies, containers and cloud for vulnerabilities. AI agents perform a code audit and a pentest, then open a pull request with the fix.own modelDeveloper free (2 users, 1…Good3
Eye Security professional toolEye Security (The Hague, Netherlands) · NetherlandsManaged detection and response for medium-sized European businesses: a 24/7 SOC, incident response, security awareness and cyber insurance in one contract. Analysts make the decisions, AI makes them faster.own modelon requestGood4
Hadrian professional toolHadrian Security B.V. (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · NetherlandsOffensive security platform: Atlas continuously maps your internet-reachable assets and exposures, and Nova runs pentests with AI agents on request.own modelNova from €1,250 per test (bundle…Good5
Sekoia professional toolSekoia (Rennes, France) · EUAutonomous SOC platform (SIEM, XDR, threat intelligence) with AI agents for detection, investigation and response. You can run it in the cloud or self-hosted.own modelon requestGood6
365 Total Protection professional toolHornetsecurity GmbH (Hannover, Germany), part of Proofpoint (US) since December 2025 · EUSecurity package for Microsoft 365 in four plans. Plan 4 includes the AI Cyber Assistant, which analyses reported emails, protects Teams and checks recipients before you send anything.own modelon requestGood7
WithSecure Elements professional toolWithSecure (Helsinki, Finland) · EUCloud security platform with XDR, exposure management and managed services. The built-in GenAI assistant Luminen explains detections in plain language and advises on remediation.own modelon request (Luminen without extra…Good8
Tines professional toolTines (Dublin, Ireland) · EU · free to tryPlatform for smart workflows that lets security teams automate work such as alert triage with AI agents, chat and integrations.own modelFree Edition free (3 live workf…Good9
Darktrace professional toolDarktrace (Cambridge, United Kingdom)Security platform that learns the normal behaviour of your network, email, cloud, OT and identities and detects deviations. Cyber AI Analyst investigates alerts autonomously, including those from third-party tools, and summarises the findings in reports.own modelon requestLimited10
ESET LiveAI professional toolESET (Bratislava, Slovakia)Generative AI assistant in ESET PROTECT (formerly ESET AI Advisor) that helps you analyse threats and handle incidents. Included in the PROTECT Complete, Elite and MDR packages.own modelon requestUnknown11
Microsoft Security Copilot professional toolMicrosoft (Redmond, United States)Generative AI assistant for security teams that works in Defender, Sentinel, Intune, Entra and Purview, and as a standalone environment. You ask questions in plain language for incident investigation, threat hunting and reporting.own modelper Security Compute Unit (SCU),…Unknown12
Charlotte AI professional toolCrowdStrike (Austin, United States)Agentic AI analyst in the CrowdStrike Falcon platform that assesses detections and deploys agents to investigate endpoints, identities, cloud and network. Actions you configure yourself first require approval from a human.own model50 AI credits per month at no me…Unknown13
Mindgard professional toolMindgard (London, United Kingdom)AI red teaming platform that attacks your AI models, agents and applications to find weaknesses, fix them and test continuously.own modelon requestUnknown14Claude generalAnthropicFamily of language models from Anthropic that excels at long documents, careful reasoning, coding and reliable, safe output.1506Elo$20 / monthStrong15
Gemini generalGoogleGoogle DeepMind's natively multimodal model family, deeply integrated into Workspace, with a very large context window.1527Elo€4.99 / monthStrong16
ChatGPT generalOpenAIOpenAI's versatile, agentic flagship with a very large context window and a broad ecosystem of integrations.1485Elo$8 / monthStrong17
Copilot generalMicrosoftMicrosoft's AI layer that combines GPT and Claude models with your own organisational data and the Microsoft 365 apps.1485Elofrom €10 / monthCaution18
Le Chat (Mistral) generalMistral AIFrench/European AI lab with open-weight and commercial models and the Le Chat assistant, with EU data residency as its core proposition.1426Elo$14.99 / monthStrong19
Qwen generalAlibaba Cloud · free to tryChinese model family from Alibaba Cloud with a free chat app, a large open-weight catalogue and the proprietary flagship Qwen3.8-Max with 1 million tokens of context.1484Eloon requestCaution20
GLM (Z.ai) generalZ.ai (Zhipu AI) · free to tryChinese AI lab (Zhipu, international Z.ai) with the open-weight GLM family under MIT licence, particularly strong at programming and agent tasks at low prices.1483Elo$18 / monthCaution21
Kimi generalMoonshot AI · free to tryChinese AI lab (Moonshot AI) with the open-weight Kimi K2 family and an assistant that focuses strongly on agents, deep research and long documents.1487Elo$19 / monthCaution22
Grok generalxAIThe model from xAI, integrated into X, distinguished by real-time access to live X posts and web data.1471Elo$10 / monthCaution23
DeepSeek generalDeepSeek · free to tryOpen-weight (MIT) Chinese language model with a 1M context window and a built-in reasoning mode, at very low API costs.1475Eloon requestCaution24
Perplexity generalPerplexity AI · free to tryUS AI search engine that delivers answers with source citations via its own Sonar models and external frontier models, with separate Enterprise agreements on data use.–Elo$20 / monthUnknown25
Llama generalMeta · free to tryMeta's natively multimodal, open-weight Mixture-of-Experts family (Scout and Maverick), free to download and self-host.–Eloon requestCautionNo options with these filters. Switch off a filter.
Last checked: 6 November 2026 · How we check
How to get started in cybersecurity
- Try this weekStart free with Aikido Security on non-confidential work. In an hour you can see what AI can do for cybersecurity.
- Sort the basics (GDPR)Choose the business variant, sign a data processing agreement and turn off training on your data. See the GDPR check per option.
- Go deeper with professional softwareBook a demo with SoSafe: built for cybersecurity, with the strongest published safeguards.
Where AI does the most in this field
The core tasks we track for this profession. Tools in the list above can be compared on these tasks.
- 1Detection and triage: assessing, grouping and summarising alerts from endpoints, networks, cloud and email
- 2Investigation and response: looking into incidents, writing search queries and proposing or carrying out countermeasures
- 3Attack surface and pentests: mapping reachable systems and testing for vulnerabilities with AI agents
- 4Awareness and reporting: phishing simulations, staff training and reports for NIS2 and the board
Per task in cybersecurity
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What is the best AI for cybersecurity?
That depends on your requirements. Field-specific solutions such as Claude are built for cybersecurity; general assistants such as SoSafe are more widely applicable and cheaper to start with. At the top of this page are our picks.
What is the difference between a 'field-specific tool' and a 'general assistant'?
A general assistant (such as ChatGPT or Claude) is a clever all-rounder you converse with yourself. A field-specific tool is a ready-made product for cybersecurity, often built on top of such an assistant, with its own domain knowledge, integrations and GDPR commitments. In the 'Quality' column you can see which model a tool runs on.
May I use confidential data?
A security tool sees everything: log files, emails, usernames and network traffic. That is personal data, so you need a data processing agreement and must know where the data is stored. Also ask whether the AI assistant is trained on your data. WithSecure (Finland) says it processes data for Luminen in AWS in Europe and does not train foundation models on customer data. Sekoia stores data in Germany or elsewhere in the EU/EEA and is ISO 27001 certified. SoSafe (France) can run self-hosted. With Microsoft Security Copilot you choose the geo of your workspace, but sharing data with Microsoft is on by default. For Charlotte AI, ESET LiveAI and Mindgard the hosting location is not public. Never let an agent act on production systems without analyst approval, and record who makes the 24-hour report under the Cybersecurity Act when an incident occurs.
What does the GDPR profile mean?
Our summary of what the provider publishes about data protection: EU hosting, no training on your data, certifications and provenance. 'Strong' = several safeguards published; 'Unknown' = the provider shares little, so ask them. It is a tool, not legal advice.