April 10, 2026 | Draxis.ai, the AI-powered cyber risk intelligence platform for companies and vCISOs, today announced a major evolution of its core AI assistant: the launch of the AI vCISO Skills Platform. Previously known simply as “Ask AI,” the assistant has been redesigned and renamed the AI vCISO, reflecting its expanded role as a true virtual Chief Information Security Officer capable of delivering deep, domain-specific expertise across cybersecurity, insurance, and strategy.
The Skills Platform introduces an extensible architecture that allows the AI vCISO to invoke specialized capabilities on demand. Rather than a single general-purpose assistant, the AI vCISO now acts as an intelligent orchestrator, routing questions to the right expert skill, synthesizing insights across domains, and delivering answers grounded in the organization's live risk data.
The Problem with Generic AI in Cybersecurity
Enterprise security decisions increasingly require expertise at the intersection of multiple disciplines. A CFO asking about ransomware coverage needs a response that bridges cybersecurity risk, insurance policy language, and financial exposure modeling. A CISO preparing a board presentation needs strategic framing, not just data.
General-purpose AI falls short in these scenarios because it lacks both the organizational context and the domain depth to be genuinely useful. The AI vCISO Skills Platform solves both problems: it has full access to the organization's live Draxis risk posture, and it can now apply specialized domain expertise through purpose-built skills.
Launch Skills
The AI vCISO Skills Platform launches with three production-ready skills, each designed around the most critical questions security stakeholders ask:
Cyber Insurance Advisor
Analyzes uploaded insurance policies against the organization's real-time risk profile, identifying coverage gaps, over-insured areas, and exclusion risks. Generates broker-ready talking points tailored by stakeholder role. Learn more →
CISO Strategy Advisor
Provides executive-level strategic guidance on security program maturity, board communication, regulatory alignment, and risk prioritization. Draws on the organization's KRI trends, control effectiveness data, and financial exposure modeling to ground every recommendation.
Stakeholder Onboarding Agent
Guides new platform users -- from board members to security engineers -- through a personalized onboarding experience. Learns the user's role, priorities, and communication preferences to calibrate future AI vCISO responses accordingly.
AI vCISO: A New Standard for Stakeholder-Aware Security Advisory
The renaming from "Ask AI" to "AI vCISO" signals more than a rebrand -- it reflects a fundamental shift in how Draxis.ai thinks about the role of AI in enterprise security. A vCISO is not a search engine. It is a trusted advisor who understands the organization, communicates differently with a CFO than with a CISO, and takes initiative when action is required.
The AI vCISO has been updated to reflect that standard. It now:
- Adapts its communication style to each stakeholder role -- financial framing for CFOs, technical depth for security engineers, governance language for board members
- Proactively surfaces insights based on observed changes in risk posture, not just in response to direct questions
- Maintains continuity across conversations, building a model of each stakeholder's priorities and communication preferences over time
- Invokes skills autonomously -- routing questions to the most relevant domain expert capability without requiring users to know which skill to invoke
- Takes action when authorized, scheduling follow-up briefings and generating stakeholder-ready reports on demand
"The gap between knowing your risks and acting on them has always been a people problem -- not enough experts, not enough time, and too much lost in translation between technical teams and business leaders. The AI vCISO Skills Platform closes that gap by putting the right expertise in the right conversation, every time."-- Draxis.ai
Why This Matters for vCISO Firms
The vCISO market is experiencing extraordinary growth, with MSP adoption surging 319% year-over-year as organizations seek cost-effective alternatives to full-time CISO hires at compensation packages exceeding $250,000 annually. For vCISO advisory firms using the Draxis platform, the Skills Platform represents a step-change in the scope of services they can deliver per client.
With the AI vCISO handling first-line advisory across insurance analysis and strategic guidance, human vCISOs can focus their time on the high-judgment work that drives the deepest client value: interpreting ambiguous risks, navigating organizational dynamics, and advising on strategic investment decisions. The AI vCISO handles the always-on, always-available advisory layer that would otherwise require additional headcount for every client.
Availability
The AI vCISO Skills Platform is available today across all Draxis.ai tiers. All three launch skills are included at no additional cost:
- Mid-Market tier ($2,500/mo) -- AI vCISO with all skills (150 queries/tenant/month)
- vCISO tier ($7,500/mo) -- AI vCISO with all skills across all client tenants (500 queries/tenant/month)
- Enterprise tier (custom) -- unlimited usage with dedicated support and custom skill development
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Draxis.ai is an AI-powered cyber risk intelligence platform that translates technical security data into executive decisions -- personalized for every stakeholder. The platform connects security tool data to business outcomes through a five-layer risk model and uses an AI vCISO to deliver role-aware briefings to CFOs, CISOs, board members, and risk committees. Used by companies managing their own risk posture and by vCISO advisory firms scaling across multiple clients, Draxis.ai provides multi-tenant isolation, financial risk quantification, and full traceability from security tools to business impact.
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