Assail Puts Its Own AI Model on Customer Hardware, Keeping Vulnerability Data Local | A Brand Story Conversation with Alissa Knight, CEO & Chief AI Officer at Assail

Alissa Knight , CEO & Chief AI Officer at Assail , says federal, military and large enterprise buyers raise two worries about running offensive cyber operations in the cloud: the cost of tokens and where vulnerability data ends up. Assail does not sell to small and midsize businesses. Knight says Assail is the only adversarial exposure validation platform that gives the customer the entire application stack, including the AI model. She says it is a small language model, about 60 gigabytes with 31 billion parameters, that can run on hardware such as the RTX 6000 Pro, and that it now runs on both x86 and ARM. She also says competing wrappers around frontier models can report clean results when the real cause is a high rejection rate behind the scenes. These are her claims. Sean asked for scenarios where the model needs to sit on premises. Knight says running disconnected has let Assail serve federal and military users in contested areas, and gives customers AI sovereignty and data sovereignty. Sean also asked what comes out the other side: she describes an interactive report in plain English with exploit evidence, a video of the attack, and patches. The conversation matters for any team weighing offensive security tools: ask where the model runs, where findings go, and what a clean report actually means. This is a Brand Highlight. A Brand Highlight is a ~5 minute introductory conversation designed to put a spotlight on the guest and their company. Learn more: https://www.studioc60.com/creation#highlight GUEST Alissa Knight , CEO & Chief AI Officer at Assail On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alissaknight/ RESOURCES Learn more about Assail : https://www.assailai.com/ Learn more about Assail Federal : https://assailfederal.com ▶︎ Want your brand on ITSPmagazine? Explore all of the options here: https://www.itspmagazine.com/advertise KEYWORDS Alissa Knight, Assail, Sean Martin, brand story, brand marketing, marketing podcast, brand highlight, Recorded On Location at ISC2 Security Congress, adversarial exposure validation, autonomous offensive security, small language model, on-premises AI, AI sovereignty, data sovereignty, disconnected environments, federal and military cybersecurity, offensive cyber operations

Assail Puts Its Own AI Model on Customer Hardware, Keeping Vulnerability Data Local | A Brand Story Conversation with Alissa Knight, CEO & Chief AI Officer at Assail | Hosted by Sean Martin