SalienceCyber.ai was founded by operators with decades of combined experience inside enterprise security operations, threat intelligence, AI systems, and cybersecurity company building. We’d watched the industry meet every new threat class by bolting another scanner onto a legacy stack. The AI attack class deserved a platform made of AI — native, not retrofitted.
Prompt injection, AI-generated malware, and agentic exploitation don't look like the threats security stacks were built to catch. They carry no prior signature, and they move through a plane — the AI interaction itself — that EDR, XDR, and SIEM were never designed to watch.
The incumbent model profits from the chase: detect after the fact, alert, and clean up. Against AI-speed attacks that exfiltrate or act in microseconds, an alert hours later isn't security — it's a record of the loss.
We built a platform that reads the intent inside an AI interaction at runtime and neutralizes the hostile ones before they execute — autonomously, agentless, with no analyst in the loop.
The team behind the CognitionAI Engine has built and operated security technology at NetWitness, RSA, Invincea, Trend Micro, Xceedium, and beyond — and has the patents, the published research, and the scar tissue to prove it.