{"id":14270,"date":"2019-02-19T14:08:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T14:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/senseon-raises-6-4m-to-tackle-cybersecurity-threats-with-an-ai-triangulation-approach.html"},"modified":"2019-02-19T14:08:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T14:08:04","slug":"senseon-raises-6-4m-to-tackle-cybersecurity-threats-with-an-ai-triangulation-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/senseon-raises-6-4m-to-tackle-cybersecurity-threats-with-an-ai-triangulation-approach.html","title":{"rendered":"Senseon raises $6.4M to tackle cybersecurity threats with an AI \u2018triangulation\u2019 approach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Darktrace<\/a>\u00a0helped<\/a>\u00a0pave the way for using artificial intelligence to combat malicious hacking and enterprise security breaches. Now a new UK startup founded by an ex-Darktrace executive has raised some funding to take the use of AI in cybersecurity to the next level.<\/p>\n

Senseon<\/a>, which has pioneered a new model that it calls \u201cAI triangulation\u201d \u2014 simultaneously applying artificial intelligence algorithms to oversee, monitor and defend an organization\u2019s\u00a0network appliances, endpoints, and \u2018investigator bots\u2019 covering multiple microservices<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 has raised $6.4 million in seed funding.<\/p>\n

David Atkinson \u2014 the startup\u2019s CEO and founder who had previously been the commercial director for Darktrace and before that helped pioneer new cybersecurity techniques as an operative at the UK\u2019s Ministry of Defense<\/span>\u00a0\u2014 said that Senseon will use the funding to continue to expand its business both in Europe and the US.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The deal was co-led by\u00a0MMC Ventures and Mark Weatherford, who is chief cyber security strategist at vArmour (which itself raised money in recent weeks<\/a>) and previously Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Others in the round included Amadeus Capital Partners, Crane Venture Partners and CyLon<\/a>, a security startup incubator in London.<\/p>\n

As Atkinson describes it, triangulation was an analytics concept first introduced by the CIA in the US, a method of bringing together multiple vectors of information to unearth inconsistencies in a data set\u00a0(you can read more on triangulation in\u00a0<\/span>this CIA publication<\/a>)<\/span>. He saw an opportunity to build a platform that took the same kind of approach to enterprise security.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are a number of companies that are using AI-based techniques to help defend against breaches \u2014 in addition to Darktrace, <\/a> there is Hexadite<\/a>, a remediation specialist acquired by Microsoft, Amazon\u2019s<\/a> working in the field, and many others. In fact I think you\u2019d be hard-pressed to find any IT security company today that doesn\u2019t claim to or actually use AI in its approach.<\/p>\n

Atkinson claims, however, that many AI-based solutions \u2014 and many other IT security products \u2014 take siloed, single-point approaches to defending a network. That is to say, you have network appliance security products, endpoint security, perhaps security for individual microservices so on.<\/p>\n

But while many of these work well, you don\u2019t always get those different services speaking to each other. And that doesn\u2019t reflect the shape that the most sophisticated security breaches are taking today:<\/p>\n

As cybersecurity breaches \u00a0and identified vulnerabilities continue to grow in frequency and scope \u2014 with hundreds of millions of individuals\u2019 and organizations\u2019 data potentially exposed in the process, systems disabled, and more \u2014 we\u2019re seeing an increasing amount of sophistication on the part of the attackers.<\/p>\n

Yes, those malicious actors employ artificial intelligence. But \u2014 as described in this 2019 paper on the state of cybersecurity from Symantec<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 they are also taking advantage of bigger \u201csurface areas\u201d with growing networks of connected objects all up for grabs; and they are tackling new frontiers like infiltrating data in transport and cloud-based systems. (In terms of examples of new frontiers, mobile networks, biometric data, gaming networks, public clouds, and new card skimming techniques are some of the specific areas that Experian<\/a> calls out.)<\/p>\n

Senseon\u2019s antidote has been to build a new platform that \u201cemulates how analysts think,\u201d said Atkinson. Looking at an enterprise\u2019s\u00a0network appliance, an endpoint, and microservices in the cloud, the Senseon platform \u201chas an autonomous conversation\u201d using the source data, before it presents a conclusion, threat, warning or even breach alert to the organization\u2019s security team.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have an ability to take observations and compare that to hypothetical scenarios. When we tell you something, it has a rich context,\u201d he said. Single-point alternatives essentially can create \u201cblind spots that hackers and manoeuvre around. Relying on single-source intelligence is like tying one hand behind your back.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Senseon compiles its data, it sends out alerts to security teams in a remediation service. Interestingly, while the platform\u2019s aim is to identify malicious activity in a network, another consequence of what it\u2019s doing is to help organizations identify \u201cfalse positives\u201d that are not actually threats, to cut down on time and money that get wasted on investigating those.<\/p>\n

\u201cOrganisations of all sizes need to get better at keeping pace with emerging threats, but more importantly, identifying the attacks that require intervention,\u201d said Mina Samaan of MMC Ventures in a statement. \u201cSenseon\u2019s technology directly addresses this challenge by using reinforcement learning AI techniques to help over-burdened security teams better understand anomalous behaviour through a single holistic platform.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Senseon is only announcing seed funding today, the company has actually been around since 2017 and already has customers, primarily in the finance and legal industries (it would only give out one customer reference, the law firm of Harbottle Lewis<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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