Pondurance Named Managed Security Innovation of the Year in 2026 CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards

Pondurance is proud to announce that we have been named Managed Security Innovation of the Year in the 2026 CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards, recognizing our continued commitment to advancing managed security through innovative technology and human expertise.

This recognition comes during a year of significant advancements for Pondurance, including the launch of Kanati, our autonomous Agentic AI Security Operations Center (SOC). Built into Pondurance's managed detection and response (MDR) services, Kanati uses agentic AI to autonomously investigate security alerts, analyze threats, and initiate response actions, helping organizations reduce the time between threat detection and containment.

Advancing Managed Security With Kanati

Traditional security operations often face challenges with growing alert volumes, complex investigations, and the time required to identify and contain threats. Kanati addresses these challenges by bringing autonomous AI directly into the security operations workflow, enabling investigations and response actions to move at machine speed while maintaining human oversight.

Powered by Pondurance's extensive threat intelligence and operational experience, Kanati continuously analyzes security activity, correlates evidence, and determines appropriate next steps. High-confidence threats can be contained automatically, while experienced security analysts remain involved in complex cases and decisions requiring human judgment.

The impact is measurable. Since introducing Kanati, Pondurance has achieved:

• 85% faster mean time to contain, reducing containment times to 11 minutes and 28 seconds compared with human analysts.

• 92% faster mean time to escalate, bringing escalation times down to 9 minutes and 40 seconds.

• 88% faster mean time to remediate, reducing remediation times to 9 minutes and 40 seconds.

• Only 6.3% of cases requiring direct human handling, allowing analysts to focus their expertise where it delivers the greatest value.

These advancements reflect Pondurance's broader vision for managed security, where autonomous AI and experienced security professionals work together to improve the speed, consistency, and effectiveness of threat detection and response.

As the cybersecurity landscape continues to evolve, Pondurance remains focused on helping organizations strengthen their defenses through continuous innovation and expert-led security operations.

We're honored to receive this recognition and grateful to our team for their dedication to advancing cybersecurity and protecting our clients.

Learn more about Kanati and Pondurance's approach to autonomous managed detection and response.