Jul 2, 2025

Securing Production-Grade AI

Thanos Baskous, Co-founder & VP Engineering

Built Secure from Day Zero

In today’s enterprise landscape, generative AI has evolved from a buzzword to a boardroom priority. Security leaders see the promise of AI: faster automation, deeper insights, reduced toil, but also recognize that it creates new risks. In fact, nearly nine in ten CISOs express concern about adopting AI securely, with issues related to data privacy, hallucinations, and loss of control at the top of their lists.

At Cogent Security, we believe trust is non-negotiable. That’s why we’ve built our platform to be secure from day zero, delivering powerful AI agents for vulnerability management that enterprises can deploy with confidence.

A World-class Team That’s Built for Security

Security and privacy are Cogent’s foundational DNA. Our founding team comes from the trenches of global security and high-stakes infrastructure environments where failure wasn’t an option, having defended trillions in financial assets at Coinbase and Blackstone, secured mission-critical fleets at Tesla, and served a large swath of the Fortune 500 at Abnormal Security. This seasoned team brings an uncompromising adversarial mindset into how we build systems and serve customers.

What Makes Cogent Uniquely Secure

Isolated-by-Design Multi-Tenancy

Each Cogent customer operates within a fully isolated data enclave: both logically and physically separated. There's no shared compute, storage, or pipelines. Your data belongs solely and entirely to you, ensuring confidentiality and compliance at every step.

Never Trust, Always Verify

Access at Cogent isn’t just secure, it’s verifiably secure. We employ end-to-end encryption, hardware-backed security keys, and mandatory multi-factor authentication. Every single interaction with your data is logged, traceable, and auditable.

Embedded Threat Detection with Adversarial Defense

At Cogent, we think like attackers in order to stay ahead of attackers. We've embedded advanced detection mechanisms throughout our infrastructure to immediately reveal unauthorized activity. This adversarial approach ensures threats are detected timely and neutralized swiftly, maintaining continuous vigilance and firm security posture.

Cultivating an Adversarial Mindset

At Cogent, we actively foster a culture that encourages our team members to think like attackers and adversaries. By regularly performing threat modeling exercises, red-team engagements, and security simulations, we instill a deep understanding of adversarial techniques and tactics in every employee (even Sales!).

This mindset not only sharpens our defenses but also directly informs how we build our AI-driven security tools for customers. Every AI model, feature, and workflow is designed with potential attack scenarios in mind, ensuring robust protection from exploitation and misuse.

We don’t just practice this mindset internally, we design it directly into our platform's security architecture, ensuring that our customers benefit from the proactive, adversarial thinking woven directly into our products.

Security for AI

The rise of AI introduces a new class of threats that traditional security tools were never designed to stop: prompt injection, jailbreaks, model misuse, and context leakage. These attacks don’t just compromise data, they compromise trust in the very systems built to protect you.

At Cogent, we’ve built our agents to be resilient from the ground up. That means more than slapping on filters or red-teaming prompts. It means treating AI like any other high-risk component in a modern stack: one that deserves rigorous security controls, isolation boundaries, and continuous monitoring.

We’ve engineered defenses that detect and neutralize adversarial input, validate every action our agents take, and limit what data they can see or touch. Even in a hostile environment, they behave safely without leaking context, executing unintended actions, or opening up new attack surfaces.

This results in Resilient AI agents that work safely even in hostile environments without sacrificing automation or speed.

Built for the CISO: Governance, Trust, and Control

AI adoption in security can’t succeed without alignment to enterprise guardrails. Cogent’s platform was designed from the ground up to integrate seamlessly with your security governance program:

  • Operational Integrity: Our AI agents operate with precision. They act only within clearly defined bounds, with built-in fail-safes and rollback options.

  • Auditability: Every action, every finding, every fix is logged and explainable. You always know what the AI did, when, and why.

  • Explainability: Our agents don’t just act, they explain. Whether it’s highlighting risky code or recommending a patch, the rationale is transparent and backed by evidence.

  • Zero Trust Architecture: We enforce zero trust internally. Every interaction between services is authenticated and authorized. AI agents run in sandboxed environments with minimal privileges, ensuring containment even if something goes wrong.

These principles allow Cogent to slot into your environment cleanly with minimal translation needed, and no special exceptions required. With Cogent, CISOs can feel safe leveraging the latest AI developments without sacrificing enterprise security controls.

Securing AI in Production

Securing AI is not optional. It is the price of entry for any serious security platform in 2025.

Cogent has embraced this reality from the beginning, by defining what secure, production-grade AI looks like. We’ve combined best-in-class engineering, proven enterprise controls, and a relentless security focus to create an AI agent platform that CISOs can trust.

©2025 Cogent Security, Inc. All rights reserved.

©2025 Cogent Security, Inc. All rights reserved.

©2025 Cogent Security, Inc. All rights reserved.

©2025 Cogent Security, Inc. All rights reserved.

©2025 Cogent Security, Inc. All rights reserved.