ION IQ is an AI component of Ontinue's ION MXDR (Managed Extended Detection and Response) service. It builds contextual models of a customer's environment, personnel, operations, and risk profile to deliver localized security insights. ION IQ operates through a layered architecture: - Contextual data is ingested from the customer environment, including behaviors of both the customer's security team and Ontinue's Cyber Defenders - This data flows into a Data Mesh infrastructure where it is processed and curated - The refined data is used to build and sequence AI Models — a combination of Ontinue's proprietary models and third-party models (e.g., Azure OpenAI) - These models power a set of AI Skills that surface actionable security insights Key design principles include data isolation (customer data does not flow into third-party AI models) and natural language query support, enabling users to ask questions and receive localized, environment-specific answers. ION IQ is intended to reduce analyst workload by filtering noise, prioritizing threats based on environmental context, and generating preventative recommendations. It is built and maintained by a dedicated Data Science team comprising PhD data scientists and automation engineers with experience in machine learning.