Command Zero, the pioneering autonomous and user-led cyber investigation platform, announced its emergence from stealth mode today with a notable $21 million in seed funding. The funding round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Insight Partners and over 60 cyber industry thought leaders and executives. Command Zero is addressing the critical bottleneck in security operations by leveraging encoded expert knowledge, automation, and advanced Language Learning Models (LLMs) to streamline the investigation process.
Despite substantial investments in cybersecurity, adversaries continue to outpace organizations in adopting innovative strategies, leaving defenders grappling with fundamental security challenges in complex enterprise environments. While automation has enhanced detection and triaging capabilities, escalated cases still demand exhaustive manual investigations. This creates a significant bottleneck for security operations, as manually investigating every escalated case is unfeasible for most organizations. Complex incidents often lead to resource constraints or necessitate hiring third-party remediation and response firms.
Command Zero transforms the investigation process, which is inherently composed of questions and answers, by combining expert investigative questions with autonomous and user-led methods on a federated data model. The platform allows for technology-independent inquiries across all data sources within modern enterprises, enabling analysts to leverage automation and LLMs for faster, more accurate, and consistent investigations.
Human intelligence and creativity are irreplaceable in cyber investigations. However, machines excel at repetitive tasks and can process vast amounts of data swiftly. Command Zero leverages these strengths, using automation and advanced LLMs to augment human investigators. Each question and response during an investigation is interpreted and analyzed within the context of the specific investigation and organization, thereby alleviating the workload of security operations teams and enhancing analysts’ ability to interpret data responses. This approach helps users identify which questions to ask, how to interpret answers, and build comprehensive narratives of incidents. The platform also generates timelines and end-to-end reports for investigations, saving valuable time for analysts.
Command Zero was founded by a seasoned leadership team with extensive experience in security operations and incident response. Co-founders Dov Yoran, Dean De Beer, and Alfred Huger have collectively led seven successful cybersecurity acquisitions, including exits to Symantec, McAfee, Sourcefire, Cisco, and IBM. “Running escalations to ground truth has always been the biggest challenge in cyber,” said Dov Yoran, co-founder and CEO. “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.”
Command Zero’s research team meticulously creates and curates investigative sequences and technology-specific questions, combining decades of incident response experience with advanced automation capabilities and a sophisticated LLM implementation. This results in expert outcomes accessible to all users, revolutionizing the way cyber investigations and threat hunting are conducted across the industry.
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