We're proud to announce that eSentire has won a 2026 Global AI Award in the AI in Cybersecurity category, recognizing the Atlas Platform and the Controlled Autonomy SecOps operating model behind it.
The Global AI Awards recognizes organizations applying artificial intelligence to solve real-world challenges with measurable impact. For eSentire, this recognition validates a different approach to AI in cybersecurity: organizations should not have to trade accountability for speed, especially as the threat landscape becomes more automated and unforgiving.
When Speed Outpaces Trust
AI has changed the economics of cyberattacks. Threat actors can move faster, test more attack paths, and scale their operations with unprecedented efficiency. For security teams, the challenge is no longer simply utilizing AI; it's adopting AI that can act at machine speed without creating a black box of ungoverned security decisions.
The market conversation around agentic AI in cybersecurity often lands at one of two extremes: fully autonomous AI SOC platforms that remove people from high-impact decisions, or legacy workflows enhanced with isolated automation. Atlas was built to close that gap, delivering agentic AI at machine speed without forcing a tradeoff between autonomy and accountability.
The Architecture of Accountable AI
Controlled Autonomy SecOps brings together purpose-built agentic AI operatives, engineered human-judgment controls, and the expertise of eSentire's 24/7 Security Operations Center. The Atlas Platform continuously investigates, validates, and advances security actions across the customer environment, while keeping every outcome explainable, reversible, and accountable. With the Atlas Operations Center, security teams can monitor AI-powered threat detections, launch autonomous pen tests, review active investigations, and access self-service reporting, all from a single platform, on any device. It's an operating model designed to help organizations move faster than attackers, while maintaining the control required to protect business operations, customer data, and compliance obligations.
Results at Scale
Publicly launched in May 2026, the Atlas Platform is the engine behind eSentire's Preempt, Detect, and Respond capabilities. It unifies offensive validation, managed detection, and controlled autonomous response into a continuous security lifecycle that helps organizations find exposures before attackers do and stop threats in real time. Today, Atlas is delivering measurable outcomes:
- <30 second Mean Time to Engage, with 100% autonomous signal triage and no analyst queue delay
- <5 minutes to move from signal telemetry to full threat context
- 99.99% initial host compromise prevention, with no lateral movement to a second device
- >95% alignment to Tier 3 SOC Analyst validation and expertise
- An 8–11X ROI compared with building and staffing an equivalent security program in-house
The recent Global AI Awards win adds to a strong 2026 for eSentire and the Atlas Platform, which was also named Best Agentic AI Security Platform in the 2026 Hacker News Cybersecurity Stars Awards.
We're honored to continue receiving industry recognition, and even more focused on the customer outcomes that make it possible.
To learn how eSentire can help you find exposures and defend your organization, connect with an eSentire Security Specialist now.
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eSentire is a leader in Controlled Autonomy SecOps, protecting 2,000+ organizations across 35+ industries around the world. Founded in 2001, the company’s Controlled Autonomy SecOps operating model pairs agentic AI operatives with engineered human-judgment controls, delivering expert-depth security outcomes at machine speed without ceding accountability to opaque automation. Powered by the unified agentic AI Atlas Platform, eSentire’s Atlas AI + 24/7 expert human SOC coverage delivers offensive capabilities that preempt exposures before attackers do, detect, and respond to stop threats in real time. For more information, visit esentire.com and follow @eSentire.