The way the market works today, cybersecurity knowledge is scattered across countless sources, with varying levels of reliability, and is most often delivered through complete platforms and bundled solutions. Yet in many situations, what SecOps teams need first is simply fast access to the right expertise at the right moment.
The good news is that cybersecurity expertise already exists across the ecosystem, and it is incredibly rich! Independent experts, vendors, researchers, and security organizations continuously produce valuable knowledge and intelligence. But accessing, validating, and operationalizing it remains difficult for most teams.
Our mission is to transform fragmented cybersecurity knowledge into reliable, explainable, and actionable assistance that professionals can use in real operational situations.
From the beginning, it did not make sense to build this alone. If the goal is to support teams facing real-world cybersecurity challenges, then the product must be shaped with them and with the ecosystem that shares our vision of collaboration and knowledge sharing.
So we first started building a community of users, and the response exceeded our expectations. In just two months, hundreds joined, simply by sharing our ambition to help shape a tool designed to improve their day-to-day security operations. This community is now at the core of how we build.
This new release marks a major step forward for Askeal, introducing our contributor portal for autonomous knowledge sharing, alongside performance improvements driven directly by community feedback.
Opening our contributor ecosystem
This release introduces the first version of the Askeal Contributor Portal, designed to allow cybersecurity experts and organizations to directly contribute their expertise to the platform.
Contributors can now create dedicated contributor profiles, either individually or collaboratively across teams within the same organization. Through this portal, they can onboard autonomously by connecting APIs, threat intelligence feeds, tools, or by sharing cybersecurity knowledge through documents, links, reports, research content, and other specialized resources.
The portal also introduces dedicated analytics dashboards where contributors can monitor how their expertise is being used across the platform, including contribution reach and engagement signals.
“This is an important step toward our long-term vision: building a cybersecurity assistant powered not only by AI, but by the collective expertise of the cybersecurity ecosystem itself.” Roxane Suau, CEO and cofounder of Askeal
Faster response times
When professionals are in the middle of an investigation or an operational task, waiting breaks their flow. Speed is not a nice-to-have, it is critical. With this release, we have taken the first significant step by making response times up to 3× faster, and this is only the beginning. We will continue improving in that direction with each release, because faster answers directly translate into better decision-making in real-world situations.
“Reducing latency across the entire pipeline without compromising reliability, traceability, or security is one of the biggest challenges in AI today. With this release, we are pushing the boundaries of what operational AI performance should look like.” Maxime Abade, CTO of Askeal
File upload and analysis
Day-to-day security operations constantly involve logs, reports, configuration files, scripts, and exported datasets that teams need to investigate, correlate, and operationalize quickly.
With this new release, Askeal now allows users to upload and analyze files directly within the platform in common formats such as .log, .json, .csv, .txt, .xml, scripts, and reports, reducing friction caused by constantly switching between tools during investigations.
This is only the first step. Later this month, Askeal will also introduce direct output generation capabilities, allowing investigations to be converted into ready-to-use deliverables such as reports (.pdf, .docx), structured data files (.csv, .json) when relevant, significantly simplifying reporting and operational workflows.
What’s next
We are building a cybersecurity assistant professionals can genuinely rely on during real investigations, operational decisions, and day-to-day security work. To achieve this, we will continue working in close collaboration with the cybersecurity community by iterating quickly, testing continuously in operational environments, transforming feedback into concrete improvements and expanding our network of contributors.
