eSentire adds offensive AI features & names cyber chief

eSentire has added new pre-empt, detect and respond functions to its Atlas Platform and appointed Ilan Mindel as Chief Cyber Officer.

The update expands the platform's offensive security, exposure management, and managed detection and response services. Mindel will lead a new offensive cyber team.

eSentire says the Atlas Platform uses agentic artificial intelligence in a continuous operating cycle that links offensive testing with detection and response. The system carries out hundreds of thousands of autonomous investigations and responses across more than 2,000 customer environments and aligns with senior analyst decisions more than 95% of the time.

The company is positioning the platform around what it calls controlled autonomy, with AI systems operating under human oversight rather than replacing analysts. It says this approach is intended to help security teams deal with faster attack cycles, rising exploit activity, and the challenge of managing tools from multiple vendors.

Platform changes

New features include continuous attacker-view assessments of exploitable exposure through autonomous offensive security, links between proven exploits and live managed detection rules, and recommendations on coverage gaps based on environmental risk. eSentire has also added identity enrichment and confidence scoring to detect credential-based attacks.

Those changes reflect a broader shift in the cyber market as suppliers try to combine defensive monitoring with more proactive testing before attackers exploit weaknesses. Vendors increasingly argue that artificial intelligence is shortening the time between identifying a weakness and attempting to exploit it, putting pressure on security teams to respond faster.

Dustin Hillard, Chief Product and Technology Officer at eSentire, outlined the rationale behind the changes. "AI has compressed the attacker's timelines from weeks to hours. Defenders need to keep pace, continuously, and with judgement. With Atlas, offensive AI surfaces the exposures attackers would exploit, and that evidence drives detection, response, and remediation in the customer's environment. That is Controlled Autonomy SecOps, expert-depth capability governed by the engineered human controls that regulators, boards, and insurers require," he said.

He added: "Our customers don't measure us in alerts triaged or hours saved, they measure us in attacks that never achieve business disruption."

New role

Mindel's appointment creates a new senior role focused on offensive cyber operations. According to eSentire, his team will bring adversarial simulation and exposure validation into the Atlas Platform so weaknesses can be identified and addressed before they are used in live attacks.

He will oversee offensive security strategy and the development of what the company describes as proactive cyber defence. His background includes cyber security architecture, adversarial simulation, and threat exposure management.

In a separate statement, Mindel set out his view of the market. "AI and cyber risk are converging faster than ever, and that demands a new standard for resilience. I joined eSentire to sharpen how we simulate real-world adversaries and neutralize skyrocketing exposures before they're exploited. Our mission is clear: deliver MDR that moves first, preempting, detecting, and responding, so organizations everywhere can shift from reactive defense to proactive, AI-driven security," said Ilan Mindel, Chief Cyber Officer at eSentire.

Operational metrics

eSentire also disclosed several operating measures tied to its managed detection and response service. Its AI systems engage signals in less than 30 seconds, triage all signals without queue delays, and produce full threat context in less than five minutes through telemetry enrichment, correlation, and investigation.

Based in cyber security services, eSentire says it protects more than 2,000 organisations across more than 35 industries worldwide. Its model combines round-the-clock human security operations centre coverage with AI-driven analysis and response across customer environments.

The latest changes show how cyber security providers are trying to combine exposure identification, incident detection, and response in a single workflow rather than offering them as separate products. For customers, that means offensive findings such as exploitable weaknesses can feed directly into detection rules and remediation actions instead of sitting in isolated testing reports.

eSentire says the Atlas Platform is designed to work across existing customer technology environments without requiring organisations to commit to a single vendor stack, and that it operates across any integration.