Orange Cyberdefense partners with Mistral AI: setting up a new standard in AI augmented and trusted cybersecurity

TLTR

• Orange Cyberdefense joins Mistral AI’s Design Partner program as the first european MSSP, in order to leverage upon Mistral Large 4's capabilities;  
• The advanced Mistral AI model will be gradually integrated into penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, investigation and incident response solutions;  
• This european partnership represents the next step of augmented cybersecurity for organizations, in terms of sovereignty, compliance and trust.  

Orange Cyberdefense and Mistral AI join forces as part of the Design Partner program

Orange Cyberdefense and Mistral AI's partnership marks the convergence of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. Within the Design Partner program led by Mistral AI, Orange Cyberdefense is the first european MSSP to take the lead in augmented cybersecurity solutions. 

The convergence between cybersecurity and artificial intelligence

Faced with increasingly industrialized and sophisticated attacks, Orange Cyberdefense has swiftly integrated AI into its operational model, its proprietary cyber threat intelligence (CTI) and its range of cutting edge security services. As early as April 2025, the integration and then gradual deployment of the Qevlar AI solution within its operational detection centers (SOCs) marked a first step toward an AI augmented cybersecurity. This commitment is now entering its second phase through a second partnership with Mistral AI.  

Launched in early October, Mistral Large 4 – aka "the Chonk" - is a powerful language model, now at the core of Mistral AI’s Design Partner program. As the first European MSSP player within the project, Orange Cyberdefense will be able to leverage the capabilities of this cutting-edge multimodal model to raise the bar of AI augmented cybersecurity. 

The capabilities of Mistral Large 4 will be gradually integrated into Orange Cyberdefense’s first in class cybersecurity services: 

• Upstream, at the heart of intrusion tests (Pentest) and enhanced technical audits, but also for vulnerability assessment in order to explore potential attack path and scenarios; 
• On remediation level in order to accelerate the investigation and incident response phase. 

A european scale partnership: a new step toward a trustworthy AI cybersecurity

By partnering with Mistral AI, a european leader in artificial intelligence, Orange Cyberdefense takes the best of its cybersecurity expertise into the age of frontier AI models. The Mistral Large 4 model is an in-house product developed by Mistral AI, whose own data centers are located in Europe. Orange Cyberdefense will rely on these computing capabilities to run its dedicated models for cybersecurity operations. 

This alliance between Orange Cyberdefense and Mistral AI reinforces the foundation of a cybersecurity enhanced by a trustworthy AI, says Anis Trabelsi, Head of Innovation and AI at Orange Cyberdefense. 

Having a European led technology and environment on board is a guarantee of sovereignty for organizations wishing to use AI in sensitive contexts and complying as well with regulatory requirements.

This opportunity marks a new step to build a safer digital society using trusted and AI-enhanced cybersecurity. 

If you want to read more about this new partnership, please read the press release below.