Leveraging agentic AI for predictive resilience

Wisr’s architecture uses autonomous, goal-driven agents to predict, prioritise, and monitor cyber and third-party risk in real time. Capabilities include:

• Predictive vendor-risk modelling. Continuous ingestion of global signals, including breach disclosures and dark-web intelligence, to evaluate vendor exposure and estimate the likelihood of near-term incidents at an entity.

• Assessment automation with RiskAssure. An agentic RAG workflow that analyses security documentation and compliance artefacts, such as SOC 2, to draft responses, link evidence, and reduce questionnaire effort by an estimated 60% to 80%.

Strategic alignment with national priorities

The platform supports federal priorities, including Our North, Strong and Free, and advances digital and operational resilience across the economy. Benefits for defence and regulated partners include:

• NIST-aligned security architecture with configurable data-residency controls for Canadian and EU regions.

• Sector focus on Defence & Aerospace, Critical Minerals & Energy, Healthcare & Life Sciences, and Transportation & Logistics.

• Program readiness that may align with initiatives such as the Strategic Response Fund (SRF) and the Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) Program, while also helping major contractors meet Industrial and Technological Benefits (ITB) obligations.

Product pillars and deployment options

To support both mission and commercial requirements, the platform will launch with the following pillars:

• Sovereign analytics. Run sensitive workloads inside secure federal cloud, protected on-premise, or military-grade environments to preserve operational control and auditability.

• Portfolio-wide vendor visibility. Map suppliers, sub-suppliers, and concentration risk, then surface exposure paths tied to incidents or high-risk signals.

• Actionable workflows. Convert scores into playbooks that prompt teams to rotate credentials, tighten access, or raise monitoring based on thresholds.

• Framework-first reporting. Align outcomes to NIST CSF 2.0 supply-chain outcomes, ISO/IEC 27001 Annex A supplier controls, and SOC 2 CC9.2 for clear, verifiable evidence.

Timeline and rollout

Wisr is targeting alpha in Q2 2026 and MVP in mid-2026, followed by phased sector rollouts in collaboration with early partners and programs.

Why this matters now

Supply-chain attacks and third-party exposures remain a top driver of cyber risk. Organisations need technology that predicts where risk is rising and automates the next step. For defence and other highly regulated environments, that technology must also run under sovereign control to meet residency, classification, and operational requirements. The Wisr platform is designed to meet both needs in a single, deployable stack.

What customers can expect

• Faster assessments. Agentic automation helps teams answer standard questionnaires in hours instead of days and ties every answer back to evidence.

• Better signal, less noise. Predictive scoring highlights vendors with rising incident likelihood so teams can act before an event.

• Cleaner audits. Evidence and actions map to recognised frameworks and produce board-ready summaries that show who did what and when.

• Flexible deployment. Run on infrastructure that satisfies national policy and sector-specific compliance.

“Supply chain resilience is a national security priority and a commercial imperative. From critical minerals to aerospace, healthcare to defence, Canada’s prosperity and sovereignty depend on secure and predictable supply chains. Our dual-use platform pairs agentic AI with sovereign options to protect these vital sectors.”

Getting involved

Wisr will work with a limited number of early adopters to validate sector-specific requirements and deployment patterns for sovereign environments. Interested organisations can request a briefing and discuss pilot timelines that align with the 2026 milestones.

Link to press release: https://www.newsfilecorp.com/release/277409/Wisr-AI-Systems-Announces-DualUse-Defence-Platform-Bringing-Agentic-AI-to-Canadas-Critical-Supply-Chain-Resilience