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The Intelligent Software Applications (ISA) group develops cutting-edge AI technologies that help organizations create smarter, more efficient and trustworthy software solutions.
Leveraging advances in generative AI and high-performance AI systems, we enable organizations to automate complex knowledge-intensive processes, enhance expert decision-making and deploy neural network applications more efficiently across a wide range of computing platforms.
By combining generative AI, intelligent automation, privacy-preserving analytics and AI workload optimization, we transform cutting-edge research into practical solutions for real-world challenges. Our technologies help organizations increase productivity, improve decision-making and deploy AI systems with greater efficiency, transparency and control.
Generative AI applications for cybersecurity intelligence
One of ISA’s main application areas is cybersecurity intelligence. Security teams need to understand information coming from many different sources, including cyber threat intelligence reports, vulnerability databases, alerts, system observations and open-source intelligence. ISA develops generative AI technologies that help analysts turn this data into structured knowledge, explanations and actionable recommendations.
Our work combines large language models, agentic workflows, semantic search, knowledge representation and cyber threat intelligence standards. These technologies support analysts in extracting relevant information, correlating it with monitored systems and understanding how emerging threats may affect their organization.
A key focus of our research is the private and controlled use of LLMs in sensitive environments. Cybersecurity tasks often involve confidential data, such as internal alerts, logs, hostnames, IP addresses or vulnerability information. ISA develops privacy-preserving techniques that allow organizations to benefit from external or third-party LLMs while reducing unnecessary exposure of sensitive information. This includes anonymization, controlled information disclosure and mechanisms to preserve the usefulness of AI-generated answers while protecting sensitive data.
By combining generative AI with human expertise, ISA supports faster threat understanding, improved situational awareness and more effective cybersecurity decision-making.
AutoReport: AI-driven cyber threat intelligence for the NEC CyIOC
AutoReport is NLE’s agentic AI platform for cyber threat intelligence (CTI). It automates the collection, analysis and dissemination of CTI, helping security specialists rapidly understand attack methods, affected assets, likely targets and possible mitigation actions.
AutoReport plays an important role in NEC’s next-generation security ecosystem, contributing to the NEC CyIOC and NEC’s Security Deep Research product line. Within the CyIOC environment, AutoReport provides an AI-driven intelligence layer that helps transform cyber threat information into decision support for security operations.
The CyIOC platform is designed to help global enterprises improve situational awareness and accelerate incident response. In this context, AutoReport supports security teams by identifying relevant changes in the threat landscape, recognizing emerging risks earlier and reducing the manual effort required to move from information gathering to mitigation planning.
Looking ahead, ISA is advancing the integration of generative AI into cybersecurity operations, working with NEC's global security portfolio and European research partners to develop intelligent, privacy-aware and scalable technologies for cyber defense. Through this work, the group continues to expand the practical application of AI for threat analysis, situational awareness and security decision support.
Accelerating AI performance with SOL
As NEC's European AI technology hub, NEC Laboratories Europe develops advanced technologies that help organizations unlock greater value from AI. Developed by our researchers, SOL is a full-stack AI compiler and optimization platform that enables hardware manufacturers and software developers to accelerate neural network workloads, improve compute efficiency and bring AI products to market faster. Learn more.
Combining these two approaches yields deep insight into the behavior of the systems we operate. It provides decision support for cybersecurity at scale and enables human operators and artificial systems to work together to defend against cyberattacks.
Turning AI innovation into real-world impact requires more than powerful models – it requires the ability to run them efficiently at scale. SOL is NEC Laboratories Europe's full-stack AI compiler and optimization platform, helping hardware manufacturers and software developers accelerate neural network workloads, maximize compute efficiency and bring AI-powered products to market faster.
SOL is designed to optimize AI and machine learning workloads across heterogeneous computing environments, including CPUs, GPUs, accelerators, edge devices and cloud infrastructure. By combining advanced compiler technologies with automated optimization, SOL enables organizations to deploy AI applications more efficiently while reducing the effort required to adapt workloads for different hardware platforms.
By automatically analyzing and optimizing neural network execution across the software and hardware stack, SOL improves performance, resource utilization, and portability. The result is faster AI deployment, lower infrastructure overhead and more sustainable operation of AI services at scale.
Discover how SOL helps organizations accelerate AI innovation, optimize performance, and streamline deployment across diverse hardware environments.
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Discover how SOL helps organizations accelerate AI innovation, optimize performance, and streamline deployment across diverse hardware environments.
Explore the SOL service
