“Security teams are drowning in coordination work: chasing down system owners, writing tickets, proving fixes happened. We built AI agents that handle that work end-to-end, so security teams can finally keep pace with attackers,” said Vineet Edupuganti, CEO and co-founder of Cogent.Related:VulnCheck Raises $25 Million in Series B Funding to Scale Vulnerability IntelligenceRelated:Nucleus Raises $20 Million for Exposure ManagementRelated:GitGuardian Raises $50 Million for Secrets and Non-Human Identity SecurityRelated:Zast.AI Raises $6 Million for AI-Powered Code Security

Related:VulnCheck Raises $25 Million in Series B Funding to Scale Vulnerability IntelligenceRelated:Nucleus Raises $20 Million for Exposure ManagementRelated:GitGuardian Raises $50 Million for Secrets and Non-Human Identity SecurityRelated:Zast.AI Raises $6 Million for AI-Powered Code Security

Related:Nucleus Raises $20 Million for Exposure ManagementRelated:GitGuardian Raises $50 Million for Secrets and Non-Human Identity SecurityRelated:Zast.AI Raises $6 Million for AI-Powered Code Security

Related:GitGuardian Raises $50 Million for Secrets and Non-Human Identity SecurityRelated:Zast.AI Raises $6 Million for AI-Powered Code Security

Related:Zast.AI Raises $6 Million for AI-Powered Code Security

Eduard Kovacs (@EduardKovacs) is the managing editor at SecurityWeek. He worked as a high school IT teacher before starting a career in journalism in 2011. Eduard holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial informatics and a master’s degree in computer techniques applied in electrical engineering.

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