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AI has fundamentally changed how attacks happen, allowing malicious actors to operate at unprecedented speed and scale. Cogent’s \"AI Taskforce\" assesses petabytes of enterprise data to remediate these issues before critical breaches occur.\nTo stay at the cutting edge, we blend frontier research with real-world execution. Alongside our core product work, Cogent Research serves as our applied AI lab, providing the research horsepower needed to make truly agentic security workflows a reality.\nSince coming out of stealth, Cogent has experienced rapid growth. We partner with Fortune 500 companies to secure some of the most complex production environments in the world.\nWe’re backed by Greylock and we’ve built a team with the best minds in applied AI. 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