IANS Launches Ask IANS, a Breakthrough AI-Powered Tool Improving Cyber Decision-Making, Delivering Instant, Trusted Answers to Urgent Cybersecurity Questions

Leading cybersecurity advisory firm launches secure AI assistant to offer quick and actionable advice to its CISO client base.

BOSTON, MA – October 22, 2025 – Today, IANS Research formally launched Ask IANS, an AI chatbot designed to provide security leaders with exclusive insights, data, and research on virtually any security topic. Ask IANS is an invaluable resource for CISOs and their teams to receive in-depth, actionable answers to their questions in real-time, leveraging the rich underlying IP generated from our network of more than 170 expert cybersecurity practitioners (the IANS Faculty).

Ask IANS scans across relevant sources within the IANS Client Portal (a deep data-rich repository of cybersecurity expertise & insights) most relevant to clients’ queries, and crafts a rapid, tailored response to enable security leaders to make fast, confident decisions.

"I'm really proud of what we've developed with Ask IANS. By implementing guardrails to ensure every response is grounded in our industry-leading faculty's insights, we've practically eliminated hallucinations - one of the biggest issues tech leaders have with generative AI systems" said Jake Williams, IANS Faculty.

Ask IANS delivers significantly more value than public LLMs or rival AI tools across these key dimensions:

• Practitioner-Sourced Insights – Ask IANS only consults trusted content developed by IANS expert Faculty practitioners - each topic field-tested with decades of hands-on cybersecurity experience.
  

• Built by Cybersecurity Professionals, for Cybersecurity Professionals – Ask IANS was designed and trialed by IANS expert Faculty to ensure Ask IANS correctly interprets complex questions and delivers accurate, relevant answers.
  

• Free from Vendor Bias - All the source data accessed by Ask IANS is vendor-neutral, unlike public LLMs that invariably churn out marketing hype, or competitors’ tools that are inherently biased because the research accessed is often funded by the vendors themselves.
  

“Security leaders are incredibly busy, faced with tough decisions and the stakes are higher than ever,” said Phil Gardner, IANS CEO. “Ask IANS was developed to rapidly deliver actionable insights to CISOs and their teams so they can quickly ramp up on a project, build a framework, or communicate on a security topic.”

For more information about Ask IANS, Contact IANS.

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