San Francisco, CA, September 22, 2020 -- Kognos, creators of the cybersecurity industry’s first autonomous XDR investigator platform, today 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 is indicative of 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.

Kognos continuously monitors billions of these relationships to detect suspicious behavior. Once detected, 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.

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.

“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.”

Founded by CEO Rakesh Nair, former Head of Engineering at Netwitness/RSA, Kognos was built by security practitioners for security practitioners. With the known issue of alert fatigue, frustration with false positives and negatives, and the current complicated process of investigating attacker behavior and campaigns, Kognos is the only platform that dramatically simplifies the process of investigating attacker behavior and campaigns in real-time so security teams can focus on remediation and response.

“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.”

Kognos empowers enterprises to: