“You Are no Longer Hostages of Your Existing SIEM Tech” Says SentinelOne CBO

Cybersecurity company SentinelOne has announced its intent to acquire Observo AI, a data streaming platform focused on AI-native telemetry pipeline management. The acquisition is expected to strengthen SentinelOne’s AI-driven security offerings, particularly its AI Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) product.

Eran Ashkenazi, Chief Business Officer at SentinelOne, noted that artificial intelligence has been central to the company’s approach from the beginning. “For SentinelOne, we were kind of using AI before it was called AI,” he told AIM Media House. “From the get-go, we took a completely different approach. We wanted to take all the intelligence and put it on the edge device itself.”

According to Ashkenazi, the company’s use of machine learning and neural networks dates back more than a decade. “We created machine learning algorithms and used neural networks in order to put that brains inside the agent, initially with our behavioral-based detection and eventually also with static detection,” he said. “That pedigree has been lasting for quite some time.”

The decision to acquire Observo AI followed an evaluation of multiple vendors. “Our initial hunt actually started with us looking for ways to improve our AI SIEM ingestion capabilities and have a better, easier way to add a lot of connectors,” Ashkenazi said. “As we were going through that process, we started to realize that perhaps we need more than just an OEM, perhaps we need to have that capability in house.”