Cogent AI: A Blazingly Fast Reasoning Engine

The Context Crisis in Vulnerability Management

Today’s CISOs are overwhelmed. Not just because of the number of vulnerabilities appearing in the systems for which they are responsible, but because of the lack of context surrounding those vulnerabilities.

Security teams are inundated with findings from scanners, threat feeds, and compliance tools. Yet too often, these findings are detached from business impact, exploitability, or asset criticality. This results in misprioritization, alert fatigue, and remediation efforts that fail to reduce real-world risk.

To break this cycle, organizations need more than data: they need real-time, autonomous context.

That’s where Cogent’s AI Reasoning Engine steps in.

Meet Cogent’s AI Reasoning Engine

At the heart of our platform is the AI Reasoning Engine, a real-time system that acts like a security analyst working 24/7. It ingests raw security signals and automatically infers the critical context that humans typically spend hours piecing together.

Blazingly Fast Reasoning

Cogent’s AI is built for speed and precision, drawing on techniques we honed at Abnormal AI and Google Research to deliver fast, reliable outcomes at enterprise scale.

At the core are proprietary embedding models, fine-tuned for security data. They enable near-instant retrieval of relevant context, down to the exact way each customer’s assets, vulnerabilities, ownership structures, and compensating controls are described.

On top of that, we’ve developed custom models deeply familiar with security workflows. These are purpose-built to reason through complex vulnerability management tasks with the fluency of a seasoned analyst.

Using a real-time knowledge graph, we break down and chain multi-step tasks, like mapping a CVE to affected assets, identifying applicable patch policies, and tracing ownership, in milliseconds. Fast semantic search and intelligent traversal power all AI Agent actions.

Ensuring fast reasoning is critical to providing an enterprise-grade experience, and Cogent is architected to bring the time required for human-level analysis and decision-making from days and weeks to seconds and minutes.

AI Agents That Think Like Seasoned Analysts

Cogent’s reasoning engine runs on a team of specialized AI agents, each trained to handle a core piece of the security workflow. Together, they clean, enrich, and contextualize vulnerability data in real time, just like a seasoned analyst would.

It starts with data normalization: resolving asset IDs, merging duplicates, and fixing inconsistencies. Metadata like exploitability or ownership is sourced from your internal documentation and tribal knowledge, while our heuristic agents spot interesting patterns and adds inference tags like “legacy server” or “owned by finance” in our knowledge graph based on available context.

What sets Cogent apart is contextual inference. Our agents reason through real-world risk factors:

• Internet exposure from cloud misconfigs or DNS leaks

• Sensitive data based on asset function (HR, finance, prod DB)

• Compensating controls like WAFs or network segmentation

• Exploitability based on live threat intel and business context

Trained on millions of expert decisions, our models mirror the judgment of top-tier analysts. They even adjust to user intent, whether you’re triaging, reporting, or preparing for audit.

As a result, every CVE is transformed into a rich, contextual risk narrative: prioritized and actionable, with the reasoning explained and sources cited.

Actionable Risk in Minutes, Not Days

Security is no longer about chasing visibility or checking boxes on patching SLAs. It’s about making faster, smarter decisions that align with real business risk.

Cogent’s AI Reasoning Engine gives security teams the clarity and confidence to act instantly. By automating deep context analysis and surfacing explainable, expert-level insights, we cut through the noise and help teams focus on what truly matters.

Remediation decisions happen in minutes, not days. Risk signals stay aligned with shifting assets, ownership, and threats. And conversations with stakeholders become clearer and more impactful.

This is more than automation. It’s a new model for how security teams operate: with speed, precision, and purpose. We’re proud to be building the future of proactive, AI-powered defense.