Why Senseon are excited to be working with i-Trace

We are excited to be partnering with the likes of BT, Cisco and other members of the i-Trace consortium and we are looking forward to what the future may hold for our collaboration. In this blog, I want to take some time to share with you a little of Senseon’s story: what we do, what we hope to achieve and what we are contributing to the i-Trace project.

Smart security

Reliably finding and stopping malicious behaviour before it does harm is no longer realistically possible without some degree of automation, particularly given the huge volumes of data generated by modern IT environments. However, automation that falls short of human expertise creates more work through large volumes of false positive alerts and the endless tuning required as enterprises and their environments change.

The Senseon team have built the first self-driving system for cyber defence. Emulating the way expert human analysts theorise about, look for and explain complex cyber threats, Senseon automates the process of threat detection, investigation and response.

A recent study by the Ponemon Institute characterised life in a SOC today as ‘ineffective and overwhelming’ with high levels of analyst burnout due to their heavy workload and the immense amount of stress and pressure they face on a daily basis (consider that an attacker only has to be right once, but the SOC team have to be right every time).

Senseon delivers true digital transformation for the organisations we work with, fixing some of the fundamental technical and human factor flaws in security operations today that otherwise leave 79% of teams feeling overwhelmed by the volume of alerts they receive. One of the things we are most proud of is that our customers are able to achieve a workload reduction of up to 99.4% as compared to the time they would previously have spent investigating false positives before deploying Senseon.

Securing IoT

With the number of IoT connected devices worldwide expected to reach over 60 billion by the end of 2025, the need to protect these types of devices is both very real and growing.

IoT devices present a very particular set of security challenges; as it stands it is currently the least developed branch of cyber security and the potential consequences of this could be severe, since the entire security of an IoT network depends on a single device in the chain. If one device suffers a breach, this can compromise the security of every other connected device, as well as any connected systems.

Unfortunately, security is often an afterthought when it comes to the development and release of IoT devices and many contain inherent security vulnerabilities that leave them susceptible to compromise and easy attack vectors for malicious actors.

Senseon’s contribution to the i-Trace project is our self-driving system for cyber defence. Just as Senseon does in our customers’ environments, our technology analyses the vast quantities of data that constrained and IoT devices produce. Our automated investigation engine, called AI Triangulation, investigates anomalous or suspicious activity tens of thousands of times a day, on our customers’ behalf. Deploying Senseon provides organisations with a virtual workforce, automatically conducting the same type of thorough, nuanced analysis that you would expect a team of human experts to do.

An intelligent future

As with any collaboration project, it is always exciting to see what can be achieved when members of the consortium come together and combine our efforts. We are excited at what the future holds for such an important project that has the potential to create a real societal impact.

The significance of IoT devices is only going to increase in the future and become instrumental not only to businesses, but to society as a whole as more and more of our lives become connected and rely on the seamless flow of data.

We believe i-Trace is essential in facilitating that flow of data and we’re proud to be playing our part in securing the future. There is work still to be done, but together I am confident that we can bring about a smart, connected and, most importantly, secure future.

About the author

Jack Hughes, Head of Product at Senseon

Jack has spent the last decade building products that customers love across a range of industries and company sizes, from intelligence analysts in UK Government to data scientists in the hospitality industry, in start-ups, scale-ups and large enterprises. .

At Senseon, Jack works closely with our customers to understand their needs, and align these with new product features. Jack connects customer insights with internal teams to help formulate the product roadmap and ensure we deliver unparalleled value and continued innovation.