How CISO AI uses AI to brief Australian business on cyber threats
CISO AI turns the day's cyber security news into short, plain-language briefings and video briefs for Australian business. AI reads trusted sources around the clock and writes each briefing. A person writes the analysis.
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The problem
Australian businesses face a steady stream of cyber threats. The news about them is scattered across dozens of outlets, written for specialists and often about overseas organisations. Most business owners and managers do not have time to read it all, or a security team to tell them what matters.
They need to know three things: what happened, who it affects, and what to do about it.
What we built
CISO AI is a news service that uses AI to do the reading and the first draft, so a busy reader gets the point in under a minute.
- It reads trusted sources. Every three hours it checks 28 outlets, from the Australian Cyber Security Centre and CISA to Krebs on Security, Dark Reading, iTnews and the ABC. It drops promotional items and anything it has already seen.
- It looks beyond the news. It picks video briefings from security channels on YouTube. It watches X for announcements from agencies such as the FBI, CISA and the Australian Signals Directorate. It follows the startups launching on Hacker News and in Y Combinator's newest batches.
- AI writes the briefing. Claude, Anthropic's AI model, rewrites each new story in plain language. It writes a short summary, a key takeaway for Australian businesses and a set of topic tags.
- It checks what matters. Government advisories are kept only when they are significant. Ransomware claims against Australian businesses are reported as claims, not facts, and listings that are not Australian are dropped.
- It confirms before it trusts. Grok, xAI's model, searches X for agency posts. Every post it finds is confirmed with X itself before it is used, then attached to the matching briefing as the original source. A post no outlet has covered goes to a person to decide.
- It publishes four ways. Every briefing gets its own page on the site. A weekly email goes out every Monday with up to ten stories, merged when many outlets cover the same event. Businesses can take the briefings through an API. The stories that matter most become short video briefs, the CISO AI Brief, on YouTube and X. Each one is voiced by ElevenLabs in Nick Stein's own cloned voice and assembled with HyperFrames, which turns web pages into video. New startups appear in the apps directory.
Where AI is used, and where a person is
AI does
- Reading every new story from every source
- Writing the summary, the key takeaway and the tags
- Judging whether a story or advisory matters enough to publish
- Reporting ransomware gangs' claims against Australian businesses
- Searching X for agency announcements
- Drafting LinkedIn posts from the day's briefings
- Voicing the video briefs
A person does
- Choosing which sources are trusted
- Writing the analysis that opens the weekly email
- Approving every outside contributor's article before it goes live
- Deciding whether an agency post no outlet has covered becomes a story
- Setting the rules the AI writes to
How we keep it trustworthy
- Every briefing names and links its source. Readers can check the original in one click.
- Summaries are written, not copied. The AI rewrites the story in its own words and never reproduces the original at length.
- The AI holds no keys. It reaches the AI model through a gateway that holds the credentials, so no password sits in the code.
- Every change is checked before it ships. Automated checks run on every update, and after each release they confirm the news feed is not empty.
- No tracking pixels in the email. One-click unsubscribe, and addresses are never passed on.
Results
CISO AI has run in production since February 2026. It has published more than 2,400 briefings, each on its own page with its own share card. In mid-October 2026 the site served 250 to 400 page views a day (Cloudflare Web Analytics). Readers get a weekly email, businesses can connect through the API and webhooks, and the CISO AI Brief brings the biggest stories to YouTube and X as short videos.
Reading 28 outlets every three hours, every day, is not a job a person could keep up by hand. The AI does the reading and the first draft, and a person spends their time on the analysis instead.
What's next
- Cyber and tech jobs. AI will pick the cyber security and technology roles from job listings and hiring news on our sister site, provnhr.com, and bring them into the briefing.
- A video podcast. Longer conversations with the people building, breaking and defending AI systems, on the same YouTube and X channels.
Technology
Claude Sonnet 5.5 from Anthropic writes the briefings, reached through Cloudflare AI Gateway. Grok from xAI searches X. ElevenLabs voices the video briefs and HyperFrames assembles them. Sources come in through news feeds, the YouTube Data API, X, the Hacker News API and Y Combinator's public company directory. The service runs on Cloudflare Workers and Pages, with Cloudflare storage for briefings and articles.
About Cintelis. Cintelis Pty Limited is a Brisbane company that builds AI products for Australian organisations. It also builds Sigilant, identity and governance for AI agents.
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Figures as at 18 October 2026.