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Detection & Response

Contain in seconds,
not hours.

Aegis is the agentic engine inside Athena. Swarms of specialist agents find, decide, and act at the source, with every action audited and reversible.

What is autonomous detection and response?

Autonomous detection and response (ADR) is security operations where AI agents, not analysts, execute the detection-to-remediation loop: detecting threats from telemetry, triaging and investigating them, deciding on a response, and acting to contain and remediate, under policy-defined human authority. Where EDR detects and a copilot suggests, ADR acts.

How it compares

EDR detects. SOAR scripts. Aegis acts.

Earlier tools stop at an alert or a fixed playbook. Autonomous detection and response runs the whole loop, and reverses any step.

EDR / XDRSOARMDRAegis · ADR
Detects threatsYes, as alertsFrom its inputsYes, by analystsYes, by agents
InvestigatesPartialPlaybook boundYes, by analystsYes, in seconds
Decides the responseAnalystPre-scriptedAnalystAgents, under your policy
Contains and remediatesManualRigid playbooksAnalystAutonomous, at the source
Time to containHoursMinutes to hoursHours in a queueSeconds
Every action reversibleNoVariesNoYes, undo built in
Where your team fitsOperate the toolMaintain playbooksOutsourcedSupervise on the loop

EDR, XDR, SOAR and MDR describe product categories, not any single vendor. Capabilities vary by product and configuration.

The loop

From signal to contained, at the source.

Every step runs inside the authority you set. See how your authority shapes it →

t+0.0s

Detect

Signal at the source

Aegis reads straight off EDR, network, identity, cloud and email telemetry, in parallel with the SIEM, not after it.

The console

Autonomy you can watch and undo.

athena · aegis-consolelive
3.4s
Time to contain
1,284
Actions today
96%
Auto-resolved
Autonomy tensor
AdvisorySupervisedAutonomous
Containment time · 24h
Live response feed
CONTAIN Isolated endpoint WIN-4471undo
BLOCK Blocked C2 23.91.0.0/16undo
IDENT Disabled svc-acct okaforundo
EMAIL Quarantined phishing waveundo
TICKET Case opened · evidenceattached

Where people fit.

Optional human checkpoints handle exactly two things: high-blast-radius actions and the genuinely novel. Everything else runs. Every autonomous action is recorded immutably, so you can always see what was done, why, and how to reverse it.

FLAT PER-ENDPOINT · NO TOKEN METER
The evidence

Alert volume is the problem. Automated reasoning is the answer.

~50%

of security alerts in typical SOC environments are false positives, analyst time consumed with no security return.

ACM Computing Surveys 2025 · USENIX Security ’22 (Oxford)  ·  Full research →
90%

of cybersecurity teams report skills gaps, meaning every wasted alert cycle compounds an already constrained operation.

ISC2 · Cybersecurity Workforce Study 2024  ·  Full research →
61%

reduction in alerts reaching human analysts, demonstrated by automated triage in a live production SOC over six months. False negative rate: 1.36%.

Academic Research · arXiv 2505.09843 · 2025  ·  Full research →

Alert volume figures vary by environment. Academic results are from a single production SOC. False positive and reduction rates should not be assumed as guaranteed outcomes for any specific deployment.

Common questions

Autonomous response, answered.

What is autonomous detection and response (ADR)?

Autonomous detection and response (ADR) is security operations where AI agents, not analysts, run the full loop: detecting threats from telemetry, triaging and investigating them, deciding a response, and acting to contain and remediate, all under policy-defined human authority. Where EDR detects and a copilot suggests, Aegis acts.

How is Aegis different from EDR, XDR or SOAR?

EDR and XDR detect and raise alerts. SOAR runs fixed, pre-scripted playbooks. Aegis reasons over each situation and acts in seconds, including on cases no playbook anticipated, with every action audited and reversible.

Is autonomous response safe? Can it break something?

Aegis acts only within the authority you define, and every action is reversible, because undo is built in. Autonomy is a dial, not a leap: you decide how much runs on its own, and analysts supervise on the loop.

Does Aegis keep humans in control?

Yes. You set the policy-defined authority. People supervise, approve or adjust, and can step in at any point. Nothing is a black box: every decision is explained and auditable.

What does Aegis work with, and does it replace my SIEM or SOC team?

Aegis reads EDR, network, identity, cloud and email telemetry in parallel with your SIEM, and acts through your existing controls. It augments them, it does not replace them. It removes the alert-triage grind so your team supervises outcomes instead of chasing signals; it does not replace the team.

Watch Aegis contain a live threat.

A 30-minute demo. Your environment, your questions, the loop running end to end.