About Ackuity
Ackuity is an AI-native security observability platform built to secure autonomous AI agents in production. As agents become embedded across business operations, they introduce a new class of risks that traditional security tools can’t detect or govern. Ackuity provides deep visibility into agentic workflows, decision-making patterns, and system interactions, enabling CISOs and SOC teams to monitor, detect, and respond to threats in real time.
Q: Tell us about your background.
The founders of Ackuity bring deep experience in building cybersecurity, threat, and vulnerability management platforms, as well as running large-scale global SOC operations. They previously co-founded Paladion, a managed detection and response (MDR) leader that was acquired by French IT major Atos in 2020. In 2024, they founded Ackuity to address the new cybersecurity challenges posed by the adoption of AI agents.
Q: Tell us about your business/idea.
AI agents are poised to become the next major insider threat. Once deployed in production, they can be manipulated to perform unauthorized actions, serve as launchpads for attacks, or make flawed decisions with real-world consequences. Security operations teams will need continuous monitoring capabilities to detect threats, anomalies, and policy violations originating from these agents. Ackuity is an AI-native security observability platform purpose-built for this challenge, empowering CISOs and SOC teams with deep visibility into agentic workflows, decision-making patterns, and data interactions. With Ackuity, security leaders can proactively detect and respond to threats emerging from autonomous AI agents in production environments.
Q: What was the original inspiration for your company/product?
My co-founder, Vinod Vasudevan, and I previously built Paladion, a managed detection and response company that we scaled and later sold to Atos. At Paladion, we developed a platform that monitored users and systems for threats using traditional telemetry, such as system logs. When autonomous AI agents began to emerge, we realized that these legacy monitoring approaches couldn’t effectively interpret or track agentic behavior. Agents operate with their own decision-making logic and interact with systems in ways that aren’t captured by conventional logs. Additionally, the threat detection model for these systems needs to be different, based on semantic analysis and LLM-driven detectors. We saw a clear gap: every company that monitors users and systems today will soon need a solution to monitor AI agents and their interactions. That insight led us to create Ackuity, a platform purpose-built to secure and observe autonomous agents in production environments.
Q: What’s your vision for the future? What will the market you’re pursuing look like in 5–10 years?
In the next 5–10 years, autonomous agents will be embedded in every business operation, across every application, and used by every team in the enterprise. This mainstream adoption will create a vast new attack surface that demands constant monitoring. At the same time, regulatory pressure will increase to ensure the safety and security of agentic operations. Today, more than 100,000 companies operate security monitoring systems focused on users and infrastructure. In the future, every one of them will need agentic observability and threat detection capabilities to secure their AI-driven environments. Ackuity aims to be the foundational layer for this emerging need.
Q: How does your business address pressing cyber and data challenges in the commercial sector?
Enterprises today face a growing number of global regulations targeting the use of AI, on top of existing cybersecurity compliance requirements. CISOs and security teams can use Ackuity’s security observability platform to secure their agentic AI initiatives in production. Ackuity delivers comprehensive enterprise threat management and governance capabilities, helping organizations stay compliant while maintaining operational trust.
Q: What attracted you to the DataTribe Foundry? Why did you choose to participate in the DataTribe Challenge?
The DataTribe Challenge focuses on category-defining cybersecurity innovations, especially those addressing emerging threats such as AI-driven risks. Ackuity’s solution for agentic AI security observability, threat detection, and response aligns closely with that mission. We were also drawn to DataTribe’s team of hands-on operators with deep experience in cybersecurity and adjacent markets. Their expertise and operational approach could help us accelerate both our product development and go-to-market strategy.
Q: What’s your long-term vision for your business?
Ackuity’s long-term vision is to become the trust infrastructure for autonomous enterprises, providing the observability, security, and governance layer that enables the safe deployment of AI agents across all business functions. As enterprises evolve toward AI-native operations, Ackuity will ensure that agentic systems remain transparent, accountable, and aligned with organizational intent in real time.
