Auguria announces its formal entrance into the
cybersecurity AI space with seed round funding from SYN Ventures
and SentinelOne's S Ventures. Auguria drives the transformation of
traditional security operations by encoding generations worth of
hard-won human security experience into artificial intelligence
(AI) models capable of cutting through a sea of multi-vendor event
data.
LADERA
RANCH, Calif., March 19,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Auguria, Inc., a cybersecurity
artificial intelligence company, is pleased to announce its
emergence from stealth mode after two plus years of software
platform development. With an initial investment from SYN Ventures
Seed Fund, Auguria is driving the transformation of traditional
security operations by optimizing data for human and AI consumption
with the industry's first vector-based cybersecurity platform for
security operations data integration, transformation and analytics.
Auguria's Security Knowledge Layer™, or Auguria SKL™ leverages the
latest developments in AI automation techniques to transform,
classify, and prioritize massive parallel streams of events, logs,
and telemetry produced by technology security infrastructures.
Cybersecurity AI provider Auguria emerges
from stealth to solve security operations data overload and cost
problems.
"Companies worldwide are struggling under the weight of millions
to billions of security events that their infrastructures are
producing. CISOs and their teams often do not know if they are
compromised by adversaries because the meaningful clues these
systems produce are difficult to isolate and interpret," says
Dan Burns, Auguria Board Member and
Committee Chairman at SYN Ventures Seed Fund. Burns should know. As
CEO and Co-founder of Optiv, which he created in 2015 with the
merger of Accuvant and Fishnet Security, he's been a trusted
advisor to thousands of firms who've been in this exact situation.
Burns expands by saying, "SYN is pitched by multiple companies
every week, especially with AI-based ideas, but what stood out
about Auguria was how they are cleverly applying AI to solve an
enormous problem, that is, data overload, situational awareness,
and the cost of data storage."
Auguria is ushering in a new era of cybersecurity where AI
understands and automatically adapts to each organization's unique
needs. Auguria SKL creates the foundation for AI-driven SecOps,
acting as the connective layer between SIEM and data lakes, rich
security data sources such as XDR, and language models like
copilots and AI assistants. Auguria is unleashing the potential of
human-machine teaming for security operations to finally solve the
critical challenge of data overload.
Ryan Permeh, Board Observer and
Operating Partner & Investor at SYN Ventures, comments on what
attracted him to this investment. "Organizations are often on the
backfoot as adversaries relentlessly attack. One mitigation effort
is to send every bit of telemetry to expensive SIEM analytic
platforms with the hope that staff can stop maliciousness before it
has a chance to do damage. This isn't working so well anymore
because the volume of data needing analysis with the human
interpretive touch is in the stratosphere." Permeh, former Chief
Scientist at McAfee and co-founder of Cylance, acknowledges that
something has to change. "Auguria has figured out a way to
eliminate 99% of the noise from event data so that SecOps teams can
focus with a high degree of confidence and that the remaining 1% is
indeed interesting and actionable. Their SKL platform is highly
effective at revealing what was previously unknown in the
environment which is a holy grail for threat hunters."
SentinelOne's S Ventures is also an Auguria seed round investor.
Shlomi Salem, S Venture's CTO
comments, "Amidst data deluge, a significant challenge emerges:
distinguishing data related to genuine threats from the multitude
of benign noise. This task is not only complex but also critical
for effective threat detection and response. Consequently, many
organizations opt to retain all gathered data, erring on the side
of caution. This approach, however, leads to a substantial increase
in SIEM costs." Salem goes on to add, "To mitigate these burgeoning
SIEM expenses, a practical strategy involves the meticulous
identification and elimination of duplicate, repetitive data,
followed by the strategic categorization of the remaining data
based on its necessity for either immediate investigation or
long-term storage for forensic and compliance purposes. Auguria
makes identification of anomalous activity extremely easy while
simultaneously unburdening security analysts. And also diverting
uninteresting telemetry to storage that is less expensive."
Chris Coulter, Auguria CTO and
Co-Founder says, "The giant challenge security teams face today is
too much data and too little time. Analytical tools have not kept
pace with the ever growing complexity of data. As a result,
security teams often develop all sorts of hightouch manual
workarounds and often with repurposed tools usually designed for
something else. Every security team I speak with says the same
thing. They want modern data analysis solutions tailored
specifically for security practitioners. This is exactly why we
started Auguria. Our methods streamline and automate the entire
process, from data ingestion to analysis, to enrichment and
prioritization so that analysts can go directly to the step of
responding to an incident versus spending vast amounts of time
sorting, filtering, and triaging billions of data points. We're
super excited that Auguria is already making people's heads
turn."
The benefits of the AI automation to SecOps teams are numerous.
When processed through the Auguria SKL, data is "de-noised" which
is to say AI processes it and determines what is "normal" and
therefore of no risk. The data that remains is the proverbial
needle in a haystack. By accurately classifying and setting to the
side everything that is normal, what comes into focus are the
previously unknown tactics and techniques that adversaries are
constantly iterating upon. All of this is mapped into a visual
ontology to give even greater context. Customers can also send
Auguria SKL enriched data back to their analytic platforms so that
questions like "show me everything related to the accounting
network where Auguria thinks the event is abnormal."
Keith Palumbo, Auguria CEO and
Co-Founder says this, "We are thrilled to have the trust of our
investors SYN Ventures and S Ventures as we introduce this new
technology to the market. We are confident that customers that give
us a look will see that we really can help them accelerate and
modernize their SIEM operations by feeding in actionable and
prioritized data that analysts can managebly act upon while at the
same time giving them the option to divert run-of-the-mill,
non-controversial events to less expensive storage."
About Auguria
Auguria is driving the transformation of traditional security
operations by optimizing data for human and AI consumption with the
industry's first vector-based cybersecurity platform for security
operations data integration, transformation and analytics
Follow Auguria on linkedin.com/company/auguria-io/ or go to
auguria.io for more information.
About SYN Ventures
SYN Ventures (SYN) is a venture capital firm focused on
investing in disruptive and innovative security companies in the
cybersecurity, industrial security, national defense, privacy,
regulatory compliance, and data governance industries. Learn more
at synventures.com.
About S Ventures
S Ventures, is the venture capital arm of SentinelOne
(NYSE:S). SentinelOne's mission is to defeat every attack, every
second, of every day. Learn more at sentinelone.com.
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