To assist organizations from transferring the burden of recurring and daily safety tasks already performed by people analysts to AI, the co-founders of EDR provider Cybereason have regrouped with a new security startup, 7AI. 7AI’s Agentic AI Platform frees security experts from time-consuming tasks, such as triaging emails, interpreting signs, correlating monitoring, and looking for known threats, says Lior Div, one of the co-founders.
When Softbank acquired a majority interest in Cybereason, Div and Yonatan Striem-Amit founded 7AI in April 2024, they left the business. The company, which emerged from secrecy on Thursday, says more than a dozen organizations, generally large and medium businesses, are already using its Agentic AI Platform. 7AI also received$ 36 million in seed funding from Greylock Partners, Spark Capital, and CRV.
Agentic AI is described by Div as” swarms of AI agents” capable of carrying out daily protection tasks independently. These swarms, in contrast to secluded relational AI agents, may enable automatic operations by combining and communicating their intelligence to investigate and prioritize threats while optimizing system resources. One broker could be configured to discover suspicious monitoring in an endpoint detection and response ( EDR) system, and another could be configured to evaluate the potential danger by examining cloud reports in tandem. In identity and access management ( IAM ) systems, another agent could be set up to track user behavior patterns.  ,
” Instead of spending their time on repetitive work to respond to alerts, our early customers are able to start their work with full context, drastically fewer false positives, and the results of full investigations”, Div explained announcing the company’s new platform. The platform records each agent’s decision-making process and can be viewed by human analysts at any time.
7AI’s agentic AI capabilities, which is hosted in the Amazon Web Services cloud, is built with generative AI tools from Open AI and Anthropic.
” When it comes to reasoning, we’re using Open AI”, Div tells Dark Reading. ” But when it comes to actually implementing and writing code, we’re using Anthropic”.
A Replacement for SOAR?
The platform is not intended to replace security analysts and administrators; rather, it will help them get mundane tasks done so they can devote their time to more important tasks.
” AI will take away 90 % of the boring, toiling work”, Div says.
7AI’s platform is designed to correlate telemetry without moving data into another system, aside from performing repetitive tasks. In a typical threat-hunting scenario, for instance, the data would need to be pushed into a security information and event management ( SIEM). Instead, 7AI correlates the information at its source. The platform can also look for anomalies and threat activity in IAM systems like Okta, Div says.
” We think our AI will be able to capture the data where it was created,” he says. ” You don’t have to send a lot of those pieces to the SIEM anymore”.
According to Div, this may lessen organizations ‘ reliance on managed security and service providers or managed detection and response providers.
Once you have our system, we don’t believe you will need a SOAR because it will automatically decide what to run and what kind of investigation to conduct without having to make any formal arrangements, according to Div.