SenseOn recognised as a WEF Technology Pioneer 2021

It is a great privilege to be able to share with you all, some of what has been happening within the company recently, as well as a humbling announcement that makes me incredibly proud of our customers, our partners, our investors and our team that have made it possible.

First and foremost, those that are eagle-eyed will have already noticed that the SenseOn brand has undergone a slight refresh, with the presentation of our name now separated into two words by our iconic, colourful triangle. This carries with it a slight change in the pronunciation, also, as we move from Senseon to SenseOn.

These adaptations, along with the new end-line “On A Mission”, are the result of internal exercises we completed as a team, to identify the actions that we take both as individuals and collectively as a company, that are most important to our customers. Now in the midst of scaling, these are the actions we believe we should enshrine as company values, in order to ensure that our customers, current and future, are at the heart of everything we do. We are nothing if not customer-obsessed and so these changes are borne from the belief that company culture is what you do, not what you say you do. 

This sense of being on a mission to help our customers has often manifested itself during internal meetings, or indeed when speaking with information security professionals for the first time and describing to them who SenseOn is and what we are about. There are countless examples of the team going above and beyond time and time again to ensure our customers feel supported as they embark on their own missions.

Ever since we developed the idea for an entirely new security architecture for the future, the data has consistently demonstrated just how much sense it makes for our customers in terms of reducing risk, time, cost and workload for their security teams.

It has been three and a half years since I penned that very first blog post for the SenseOn website. At the time, I was described as crazy; what we were attempting to do was described as a technical impossibility; and some considered our approach to security architecture design as blasphemous. 

Today, however, the world in which a CISO would have to acquire multiple siloed and expensive tools such as EDR, NDR, IDS, NGAV, SOAR, SIEM and then battle with the challenge of engineering and integrating and looking after them all, is fortunately just a painful and distant memory. 

Our work to achieve what has been described by industry experts as a ‘generational leap forward in the way we protect organisations’ has not been in vain. At the early onset of COVID-19 we were well-placed to support our customers as they transitioned from traditional ways of working to the model we all know and recognise today. This has carried through a huge number of digital transformations as the organisations we work with have confronted the new reality they are now faced with. Attackers have made significant advancements in their tactics and techniques; the complexity of the environments that security teams are charged with safeguarding has increased exponentially, as has the volume of data they are now processing; and they are facing ever-increasingly sophisticated threat actors as the explosion of  ransomware attacks has funded research and development into malicious capabilities.

About the author

David Atkinson, Founder and CEO, Senseon

Before moving into the cyber security industry, David spent over 15 years working within the UK’s specialist military units where he was the first cyber operative. His combined experience and technical abilities gained from his background in military, government and the private sector has led him to challenge the current approaches to cyber security and to create Senseon.

Information security professionals today have to get it right all the time - every second, every day. The bad guys have to get it right once. 

The security industry has failed infosec professionals through its expectation that they can manage an overgrown stack of disparate, siloed tools across multiple infrastructures, fighting through the noise in an effort to protect their organisations’ data, infrastructure and people.

To support our customers on their individual missions, we have developed a world first: a security architecture for automated detection, investigation and response that can be deployed across an entire enterprise estate via a single piece of software. This reduces the time it takes to deploy the equivalent capabilities such as NGAV, EDR, NDR, IDS, SOAR, SIEM from years to just days. It means we save our customers millions of dollars, not just through initial implementation costs, but also ongoing maintenance, security engineering, cloud monitoring, and other costs associated with a highly complex, noisy environment. 

We are incredibly humbled and proud to announce that today we are named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer for 2021. Past recipients of this accolade include Google, Airbnb, Spotify, TransferWise and Twitter. The World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers is “composed of early to growth stage companies that are involved in the design, development and deployment of new technologies and innovations that are poised to have a significant impact on business and society”. 

I would like to reiterate my deepest thanks to all our customers, partners, investors and my amazing team, without whom this achievement would not be possible.

We are pioneers with a purpose. At SenseOn, our mission is your mission.