Conifers.ai—based in Dallas and Tel Aviv, Israel—announced $25 million in funding as well as the formal launch of the company and its Conifers CognitiveSOC platform. CognitiveSOC is a native AI platform that helps organizations solve critical security operations center challenges at scale, increasing efficiency and effectiveness and reducing risk.
“This is the year companies will start demanding more and compromising less” for cybersecurity operations, Tom Findling, co-founder and CEO of Conifers.ai, said in a statement.
He added that the company’s enterprise and managed security service provider customers are looking for solutions that address basic, Tier 1 problems as well as more complex challenges.
“They need to measure ROI and value beyond standard operational metrics … to understand true business impact,” Findling said. “The stakes are far too high to make the uncomfortable compromise between efficiency and effectiveness. They now need both for [security operations center] excellence at a time when cyber-attacks are at an all-time high,”
Findling is based in Dallas-Fort Worth, while the startup’s co-founder and CTO Mark Kurman is based in Tel Aviv. The company’s third co-founder is U.S.-based Alon Yotvat, who serves as chief product officer, data science.
Agentic AI is seen as a ‘force multiplier’
Backed by SYN Ventures, Picus Capital, and others, Conifers.ai said it brings the power of agentic AI as a “force multiplier” to security operations teams.
Conifers.ai said it was created to solve the challenges faced by enterprise and service provider security operations teams. Among those challenges: quality and scalability issues, expertise shortages, labor inefficiencies, outdated technology, lack of visibility into risk management, and inability for proactive detection and response.
By combining advanced data science and AI with deep cybersecurity and security operations expertise, it’s redefining the way organizations approach cybersecurity, the startup said.
Conifers.ai said it enables customers to use AI to rapidly investigate complex, multi-tier security incidents at scale with confidence and trust, and with the tools and portals they already use.
The CognitiveSOC platform was designed to continuously ingest an organization’s ever-growing stream of security incidents and, in conjunction with its institutional knowledge, provide deep, contextual investigations.
According to Conifers.ai, this has resulted in increasing investigation accuracy by up to 8% compared to humans, while reducing total end-to-end investigation time by up to 87%.
Process is said to build ‘trust and confidence’
The platform’s patent-pending architecture ensures the right combination of AI techniques will be used on each incident analysis for more efficient and accurate incident resolution with predictable costs.
Through its unique staged implementation framework, Conifers.ai provides organizations with a proven process that builds trust and confidence in adopting AI in the enterprise, the company said.
“We’re thrilled to partner with Conifers as it assists [security operations center] teams in solving their most challenging investigations with its AI-native platform, CognitiveSOC,” Jay Leek, managing partner and co-founder of SYN Ventures, said in a statement.
Users said they’ve seen value in the platform.
“Operating in large-scale deployments across the enterprise and providers, the Conifers CognitiveSOC demonstrates real business value,” Rutger de Boer, CTO of DTX, said in a statement. “As a service provider, implementing Conifers CognitiveSOC has enabled us to expand our offerings and business.”
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