Command Zero, an autonomous and user-led cyber investigation platform, emerged from stealth with $21 million in seed funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Insight Partners and over 60 cyber industry thought leaders and executives.
With encoded expert knowledge, automation, and advanced Language Learning Models (LLMs), Command Zero is solving the most significant bottleneck in security operations: investigations.
Cybersecurity adversaries are becoming more sophisticated when it comes to adopting innovation. This makes things harder for defenders struggling with the fundamentals in complex enterprise environments. Automation improved detection and triaging capabilities, but all escalated cases still require tedious manual investigations.
This causes investigations to be the most notable bottleneck for security operations. And manually investigating all escalated cases by tier-2 and tier-3 analysts is an impossible task for most organizations. Complex incidents often lead to resource starvation for security operations or the need to hire third party remediation and response firms.
Command Zero combines expert investigative questions, autonomous and user-led methods on a federated data model to transform investigations. With the platform, analysts can utilize automation and LLMs to increase speed, accuracy and consistency of investigations.
Command Zero integrates automation and advanced LLMs to augment human investigators. And during an investigation, each question and response is interpreted and analyzed, in context of the investigation and organization. This removes the laborious work from SecOps teams and helps analysts better determine the responses from data sources. This approach also enables users to know which questions to ask, how to interpret answers and build complete narratives of what occurred. The same capabilities also generate timelines and end-to-end reports for investigations, saving valuable cycles for all analysts.
Launched by a seasoned leadership team with extensive experience in security operations and incident response, Command Zero offers a consistent, efficient and scalable path for investigations and threat hunting. The company co-founders Dov Yoran , Dean De Beer, and Alfred Huger have led seven successful cybersecurity acquisitions to date including exits to Symantec, McAfee, Sourcefire, Cisco and IBM.
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“Running escalations to ground truth has always been the biggest challenge in cyber. To date, conducting thorough cyber investigations has relied on individual expertise, and has been exclusive to select few advanced organizations. Command Zero removes technology expertise barriers, dramatically reduces repetitive manual work and speeds up investigations. Improving institutional knowledge, automation and consistent outcomes are transforming how organizations run threat hunting and investigations at scale.”
- Dov Yoran, co-founder and CEO
