Kognos Launches Autonomous XDR Investigator Backed by Security-Aware AI

Built on the principle that attacker behavior indicates attack methodology, attribution, and data for exfiltration, the Autonomous XDR Investigator fuses events from existing EDR, NDR, SIEM, and other telemetry sources into relationship graphs.

FREMONT, CA: Creator of the Cybersecurity industry's first autonomous XDR investigator platform, Kognos, launched the Autonomous XDR Investigator, a platform backed by security-aware AI that empowers customers to automatically detect, investigate and respond to attack campaigns in real-time. Built on the principle that attacker behavior indicates attack methodology, attribution, and data for exfiltration, the Autonomous XDR Investigator fuses events from existing EDR, NDR, SIEM, and other telemetry sources into relationship graphs.

"Modern defenders need a full understanding of attack behaviors across different perspectives, as well as the relationships among those behaviors," said Mike Viscuso, co-founder and former CTO of Carbon Black. "Kognos' security-aware AI combines signals from disparate sources into one, consistent attack story, empowering defenders to immediately act on malicious campaigns without the noise from individual product alerts."

The company continuously monitors billions of these relationships to detect suspicious behavior. Once seen, Kognos uses an AI-powered inquiry engine to ask thousands of forensic questions per second, mining these relationships to autonomously track malicious users or external actors throughout the network and present the findings as visual stories, empowering security analysts to respond in real-time and significantly reduce dwell time.

"Today's threat actor lives and thrives within enterprise environments with the ability to freely execute lateral campaigns, live off the environment itself, or offer a prime opportunity for insider threats to siphon information for financial gain," said Rakesh Nair, Co-Founder, and CEO, Kognos. "With Kognos, enterprises can now gain real-time visibility of all of these scenarios as they are happening and act immediately to prevent the ability for attackers to fully execute campaigns."

The Kognos advisory board comprises some of the cybersecurity industry's most innovative executives including, Tim Eades, CEO of vArmour, Mike Viscuso, co-founder and former CTO of Carbon Black, Joram Borenstein, GM, Cybersecurity Solutions, Microsoft, and Joe Eandi, Co-Founder and former CEO, BrightPoint Security.