Straight answers about Tuskira

What is Tuskira?

Tuskira is an agentic cyber defense platform. AI agents run on the security tools you already own to reduce exposure before an attack, investigate and respond during one, and feed every outcome back into your defenses.

Five named agents do the work. They find and prove attack paths, test those paths against the controls you've deployed, close them through those same controls, and re-test to confirm they stayed shut. All five reason over the Security Data Fabric, a live model of your environment built from 200+ integrations. See the platform.

What category is Tuskira in?

Tuskira calls its category agentic cyber defense. It's an AI SOC platform and an exposure management platform in one. That covers AI SOC alert triage and investigation, continuous threat exposure management (CTEM), adversarial exposure validation (AEV), attack path analysis, vulnerability prioritization and zero-day response.

The difference is that one set of agents and one model of the environment handle all of them, so a finding in one program carries straight into the next.

Who is Tuskira built for?

Tuskira is built for enterprise security teams. That usually means the CISO and security leadership, the people running vulnerability and exposure management, SecOps and incident response teams, and the platform engineers who connect and govern the stack.

MSSPs, resellers and consulting firms deliver Tuskira to their own clients through the partner program.

Is Tuskira an AI SOC?

Yes. Tuskira is an AI SOC platform. Iris, its investigation agent, triages and investigates L1 and L2 alerts across the tools you already run and returns an evidence-backed verdict with the full reasoning behind it. What sets Tuskira apart from other AI SOC tools is that the same platform also finds and closes breach paths before the attack, so every investigation can see what an incident could reach, and what you learn feeds back into your defenses.

Is Tuskira a CTEM platform?

Yes. Tuskira runs all five CTEM stages (scoping, discovery, prioritization, validation and mobilization) continuously with AI agents instead of as a quarterly project. Most tools cover one or two stages. Tuskira's validation stage tests each exposure against the controls you've deployed, and its mobilization stage closes the path through those controls and re-tests it. Read how agentic CTEM works.

Is Tuskira an adversarial exposure validation (AEV) tool?

Yes. Vector, Tuskira's autonomous red team agent, tests your perimeter like an attacker within the scope you approve, and Kairo validates whether an attacker who gets in can reach what matters. Most AEV tools stop at a validated list of findings. Tuskira keeps going, closing the path through the controls you own and re-testing to prove it stayed shut. See AEV with Tuskira.

What can Tuskira do that point security tools can't?

Point tools each see one slice of the environment. A scanner sees vulnerabilities, an EDR sees endpoints, a SIEM sees logs. Tuskira connects them into one live model, so it can answer questions none of them can answer alone. Is this CVE reachable from the internet? Would the WAF rule you already run stop the exploit? What could this alert's attacker reach next? It then acts on the answer through those same tools, and re-tests to prove the fix held.

Does Tuskira replace my SIEM, EDR or vulnerability scanner?

No. Tuskira works on top of the tools you already run. Your scanners, EDR, SIEM, cloud, identity and network tools stay in place and keep doing their jobs. Tuskira connects to them, reasons across what they each see, and acts through them. The goal is to get more out of the stack you've paid for, not to rip any of it out.

Should we consolidate our security tools onto Tuskira?

No, and you don't need to. Tuskira isn't a replacement stack. It runs on top of the scanners, EDR, SIEM, cloud and identity tools you already own, turns their separate findings into one validated answer, and acts through them.

Is Tuskira built for large enterprises?

Yes. Tuskira is built for enterprise security teams running large, mixed stacks across cloud, identity, endpoint, network and on-prem. Customers include Intrado, Accorian and Tryfacta, and published case studies cover a global retailer, a global manufacturer and a global financial services company. Every agent action is governed by approval policies and recorded in an audit trail, which is what enterprise security and compliance teams need before they let AI act.

Who founded Tuskira, and where is it based?

Tuskira was founded in 2024 by Piyush Sharma (CEO), Om Moolchandani (CPO) and Vipul Parmar (CTO). The three previously built Accurics, which was acquired by Tenable. Tuskira is headquartered in Pleasanton, California, and is backed by Intel Capital, SYN Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Wipro and Rain Capital. Meet the team.

How is Tuskira different from using ChatGPT or another general AI model for security?

A general model doesn't know your environment. It can explain a CVE, but it can't tell you whether that CVE is reachable on your network, whether your controls stop it, or what an alert's attacker could touch next. Tuskira's agents reason over a live model built from your own tools, and the AI is bounded. Reachability comes from the path model, not the language model, and what an agent may execute is set by your policy. Every verdict carries the evidence behind it.

How is Tuskira different from other AI SOC tools?

Most AI SOC tools only work on alerts, and some only see one vendor's telemetry. Tuskira's AI SOC agent, Iris, reasons over a model that unifies every connected tool, so a verdict is grounded in identity, endpoint, cloud, network and exposure at the same time. The bigger difference is that the same platform also works before the attack. It knows your reachable breach paths, so an investigation can see what an incident could reach, not just what fired.

How is Tuskira different from SOAR?

SOAR automates response playbooks, but only after a human has triaged the alert, so the bottleneck moves to triage and stays there. Tuskira triages and investigates the alert itself, returns a verdict with its reasoning, and proposes or runs the response within the limits you set. You don't have to write and maintain a playbook for every alert type before it can help.

How is Tuskira different from an MDR or MSSP?

An MDR provider has people triage your queue, so speed and quality depend on analyst skill and the provider's playbook. Tuskira returns a verdict in seconds with the full reasoning attached, and every escalation arrives already investigated, with blast radius and a recommended response. MSSPs can also use Tuskira themselves to deliver faster, more consistent service, through the MSSP partner program.

How is Tuskira different from exposure management platforms like Tenable One or XM Cyber?

Platforms like Tenable One and XM Cyber are strong at finding exposures, scoring them and mapping attack paths. Tuskira focuses on what happens next. It tests each path against the live state of your controls, closes the paths that stay open through those controls, and re-tests to prove they stayed shut. It also uses the same model for AI SOC triage, so exposure and alert context stay connected. See our CTEM tools comparison.

How is Tuskira different from a vulnerability scanner?

A scanner finds vulnerabilities and ranks them by CVSS severity. Tuskira uses your scanner's findings as an input and adds what the scanner can't see. Is the vulnerable asset reachable? Is the vulnerability exploitable in your environment? Would your deployed controls stop it? In practice that cuts the backlog to the small set that's open to attack. Keep your scanner. Tuskira makes its output actionable.

How is Tuskira different from breach and attack simulation (BAS) tools?

BAS tools run simulated attacks to test whether controls fire, usually against scenarios rather than a live model of your environment. Tuskira computes the attack paths that are true in your environment right now, validates them against your deployed controls, and then closes the ones that stay open and re-tests them. It's the step after validation that most tools leave to a ticket.

How is Tuskira different from attack path tools in a CNAPP?

CNAPP attack path tools are good at visualizing paths inside the cloud control plane. They're mostly limited to cloud and built from configuration and posture data. Tuskira's paths span cloud, identity, endpoint, network and on-prem, built from a live model that's kept current as things change, and Tuskira can close a path through the controls you own rather than only show it.

Is Tuskira tied to one security vendor's ecosystem?

No. Tuskira is vendor-neutral. It connects to 200+ integrations across many vendors, including ones that compete with each other, and reasons across all of them. A single-vendor platform hardens its own products. Tuskira hardens the whole estate, including whichever megavendor tools you already run.

What does Tuskira's AI SOC do?

Tuskira's AI SOC runs L1 triage, L2 investigation and response as one workflow. Every alert from your connected tools goes straight to the triage agent with no queue. It returns a verdict of true positive, false positive or escalate, with a confidence score and full reasoning. Benign alerts close automatically. Real ones move to investigation, which maps the timeline and blast radius, and a response agent proposes containment through your existing controls. Meet Iris.

How does Tuskira triage alerts?

Iris investigates L1 and L2 alerts the way an analyst would. It forms hypotheses, pulls evidence from the tools that hold it, and returns a verdict with the full reasoning behind it. For alerts that turn out to be real, it uses the model of your environment to show what the incident could reach and recommends containment. Every step is logged so an analyst can open it and check the work.

How much alert noise does Tuskira remove?

Tuskira reports a 98% reduction in alert noise, because benign alerts close automatically with their reasoning recorded and only true positives reach a person. Analysts spend their time on verdicts and judgment calls instead of working a queue.

How fast does Tuskira respond to an alert?

Alerts reach the triage agent within seconds of firing, and a verdict typically takes seconds. In a typical malicious sign-in case, the verdict comes back in about 12 seconds and the session is revoked in under four minutes end to end. Queue-based SOCs typically measure the same journey in hours.

What kinds of incidents does Tuskira's AI SOC handle?

Iris handles the alerts that cross tools, which are the ones human queues struggle with most. Common cases include the following.

• Malicious sign-ins from a new geography or a known bad IP
• Phishing that leads to endpoint compromise and stolen credentials
• Ransomware staging, caught before encryption starts
• Insider privilege misuse, which stays human-led by policy

Each case is stitched into one auditable investigation instead of four alerts in four queues.

Can Tuskira contain a threat on its own?

Within the limits you set, yes. The response agent can revoke a session, require MFA, isolate an endpoint or block an IP through the tools you already own. You decide which actions run automatically and which wait for approval. Every action is logged and reversible.

Does Tuskira replace SOC analysts?

No. It changes what analysts spend their time on. Tuskira takes the evidence gathering and repetitive triage off their plate, so the work that reaches a person is already investigated and needs a decision. Analysts move from closing tickets to supervising verdicts, hunting threats and tuning what the agents do. High-impact actions still wait for human approval.

Does Tuskira work with my SIEM?

Yes. Tuskira connects to your SIEM and log sources and queries them where the data lives. It doesn't ask you to move logs into a new data lake, and it doesn't replace your SIEM's detection logic. It can also query more than one SIEM or log platform, so teams running several can investigate across all of them at once.

Can analysts correct the AI SOC or teach it?

Yes. Analysts can override a verdict and give the agents feedback on a specific alert, and they can set standing guidance that shapes how the agents handle a type of alert or a specific tool. Overrides are recorded in the audit trail alongside the original reasoning, so you can see what changed and why. How human oversight works.

Can an MSSP or MDR use Tuskira to run its SOC?

Yes. MSSPs and MDR providers can use Tuskira to triage and investigate across many client environments with the same reasoning and audit trail on every case. Partners get their own demo environment, deal registration, sales and technical certification, and co-marketing. See the MSSP program.

What is agentic CTEM?

Agentic CTEM is continuous threat exposure management run by AI agents instead of a quarterly project. Agents scope the environment, discover exposures, prioritize them by real risk, validate them against your controls and mobilize fixes, continuously. The difference from traditional CTEM is speed and follow-through. Validation and mobilization happen in the same loop, so findings get closed rather than handed off as tickets. Read about agentic CTEM.

What's the difference between exposed and breachable?

Exposed means a weakness exists. Breachable means an attacker can reach it, exploit it and get past the controls you run. Most security programs measure exposure, which is why backlogs grow faster than teams can patch. Tuskira measures breachability, so the list you work from is the short one that can hurt you.

How does Tuskira prioritize vulnerabilities?

By whether an attacker can use them, not by severity score alone. Lattice checks three things for each finding. Is the asset reachable? Is the vulnerability exploitable in your environment? Do the controls you've deployed already block it? A critical CVE behind a working control can wait. A medium one on an open path to a crown-jewel system can't. See vulnerability prioritization.

How much of the vulnerability backlog does Tuskira cut?

Usually most of it. Tuskira typically deprioritizes 95% or more of CVEs as unreachable or already controlled, with the evidence recorded for each one. In one financial services deployment, 12.3 million raw findings came down to 0.46% that were actionable. In another cycle, 1,596 disclosures came down to the 2 that were reachable and unprotected.

How does Tuskira find attack paths?

Kairo computes attack paths from a live model of your assets, identities, controls, exposures and telemetry. Because the model is kept current, the paths reflect your environment now, not a point-in-time snapshot. Kairo surfaces the paths your existing controls don't block, then finds the control point where one change closes the most of them. See breach path disruption.

What does validating against deployed controls mean?

It means testing a finding against the security controls you're running today, such as your WAF rules, EDR policies, firewall rules and identity settings, to see whether they'd stop the attack. The same CVE can be dangerous on one system and harmless on another because of what sits in front of it. Control validation is how Tuskira tells those apart, and it's the step most tools skip.

What is a compensating control, and how does Tuskira use it?

A compensating control is a change to something you already run, such as a WAF rule, firewall rule, EDR policy or identity setting, that blocks an attack when you can't patch yet. Tuskira picks the compensating control that closes the path, validates that it stops the exploit, and tracks it until the permanent fix lands and the temporary control can be retired. How control validation works.

How does Tuskira prove a fix worked?

It re-tests. After a path is closed, Tuskira runs the validation again to confirm the path is shut, and keeps re-testing as the environment changes. A configuration change, a new asset or a rolled-back rule can reopen a path, and continuous re-testing is how you find out before an attacker does.

How does Tuskira respond to a new zero-day?

Quell checks whether the new vulnerability creates a reachable path in your environment, often before a patch exists. If it does, Quell recommends the compensating control that closes the path, validates that the control works, and tracks it until the real patch lands and the temporary control can be retired. Read the zero-day response guide.

How does Vector's red teaming differ from a periodic test?

A periodic test gives you a snapshot that starts going stale the day it's delivered. Vector tests from the outside continuously, within the scope you approve, so new exposures are found as they appear. Its findings arrive already validated and flow straight into the rest of the loop, where Kairo checks what an attacker could reach next and the path gets closed. Meet Vector.

Does Tuskira discover assets and vulnerabilities itself?

Mostly it uses what your tools already find. Tuskira consumes your scanners, external attack surface tools, cloud security tools and asset inventories through its integrations, and Vector adds autonomous testing from the outside. Tuskira's focus is what happens next, validating what's reachable and defended and closing what isn't.

What is the patch gap?

The patch gap is the growing distance between how fast vulnerabilities are found and how fast teams can fix them. Tuskira Research analyzed 1,596 verified vulnerabilities across 281 open-source projects in 63 days and found AI-driven discovery outpacing remediation by about 16.5 times. The report was cited by J.P. Morgan. The takeaway is that patching alone can't keep up, so teams need to close exposure through controls first. Read the report.

How does Tuskira work?

Tuskira runs one loop. It senses what's happening across your tools, normalizes it into a live model of your environment, validates which exposures are reachable and whether your controls stop them, closes the paths that stay open, and re-tests to confirm the fix held.

AI agents run each step. They query your tools where the data lives, so nothing has to be centralized first, and high-impact actions wait for a person to approve them.

What do Tuskira's five AI agents do?

Each agent answers one question.

• Vector asks whether an attacker can get in. It runs autonomous red teaming from the perimeter.
• Kairo asks where an attacker could go. It validates and closes breach paths inside your environment.
• Lattice asks what matters most. It prioritizes vulnerabilities by reachability, exploitability and control coverage.
• Quell asks whether a new threat creates a path. It handles zero-day response.
• Iris asks what happened and what to do. It triages and investigates alerts.

What is the Security Data Fabric?

The Security Data Fabric is the layer that turns signals from your security tools into one consistent model. It connects to 200+ tools, normalizes assets, identities, exposures, controls and detections, and keeps a live digital twin of your environment current as things change. Every Tuskira agent reasons over it, which is why a finding from one agent means the same thing to the next. How it differs from a SIEM or a data lake.

What's the difference between the Security Data Fabric and the digital twin?

They're two different things that feed each other. The Security Data Fabric collects and normalizes signals from your tools. The digital twin is the live model of your environment those signals build. Think of the twin as the simulator agents use to test what an attacker could do, and the fabric as what keeps that simulator accurate. Read more on digital twins in security.

What role does the AI model play, and what does it not decide?

The language model forms hypotheses, chooses what evidence to pull, writes up verdicts and explains its reasoning. It doesn't decide what's reachable, which comes from the path model built on your environment. It doesn't decide what it's allowed to do, which comes from your approval policy. And it doesn't hold your logs, which stay in your tools. That split is what makes the agents' work checkable.

Does Tuskira fix problems or just report them?

It closes them. When a path stays open, Tuskira closes it through the controls you already own, for example by tightening a policy or adding a compensating control, and then re-tests to prove the path stayed shut. You decide which actions run on their own and which wait for a person to approve them.

Does Tuskira need a playbook for every scenario?

No. Tuskira's agents reason through a case from the evidence, so they can handle a situation nobody wrote a playbook for. Teams can still author their own tenant-specific playbooks through the product API when they want a specific procedure followed every time.

What does Tuskira integrate with?

Tuskira has 200+ integrations across EDR and XDR, SIEM and log sources, vulnerability scanners, cloud, identity, network, email, code security and threat intelligence. It connects by API and MCP. Teams can also work with Tuskira through its own UI, API and MCP server. Browse the integrations.

Does Tuskira copy all my security data into its own platform?

No. Your raw telemetry and logs stay in the tools that hold them. Tuskira queries those tools where the data lives and doesn't require you to ship everything to a central lake first. What Tuskira does keep is the context it needs to build the model of your environment, such as asset, configuration and finding data. The subprocessors page lists where that data is stored.

Where is Tuskira hosted?

Tuskira runs on AWS. Snowflake and ClickHouse are used as data stores for customer and configuration data. The full, current list is on the subprocessors page, and the contractual terms are in the Data Processing Addendum.

Is Tuskira SOC 2 compliant?

Yes. Tuskira has completed a SOC 2 Type 2 audit. Reports, security policies and the latest third-party penetration test summary are available on request through the Tuskira Trust Center.

Can Tuskira's agents take action without my approval?

Only if you allow it. You set the autonomy boundaries for each kind of action. Low-risk steps can run on their own, and high-impact actions wait for a person to approve them. Actions run through the controls you already own, and every decision and approval is recorded.

Are agent actions reversible?

Yes. Every control action an agent takes is logged with the reasoning behind it and can be rolled back. Actions run through the tools you already own, inside the boundaries your policy sets, so nothing happens outside the controls your team already manages.

Is there an audit trail for what the agents do?

Yes. Every agent run is logged with its full reasoning chain, the evidence it used, the verdict it reached, and any action and approval that followed. You can open any decision and inspect it. Tuskira also records token and cost usage per investigation, agent, model and run, so you can see what each piece of work cost.

How is access to Tuskira controlled?

With role-based access control that maps to your existing roles. Platform engineers can govern who sees what and who can approve which actions, and can connect Tuskira through its API and MCP server under the same controls. See how it's built.

Is Tuskira's red teaming safe to run against my environment?

Vector, the autonomous red team agent, only tests targets inside the external scope you approve. It's built to prove whether an attacker can get in, not to cause damage. Inside the environment, Kairo validates breach paths against a live digital twin rather than attacking production systems directly.

Is Tuskira itself penetration tested?

Yes. Tuskira engages a third party to penetration test the platform every year and whenever it releases a new product. Findings are prioritized and fixed by severity. The latest report is available on request through the Trust Center.

How can we evaluate Tuskira?

Start with a comparison demo on your own stack. Bring your tools, and Tuskira's team will show you which risks can reach you and how Tuskira closes them, usually in about 30 minutes. From there, teams typically connect more of their environment to see results on their own data. Book a comparison demo.

What do we need to connect to get started?

Start with the tools that matter most for the first use case, such as your vulnerability scanner, cloud and identity tools for exposure work, or your SIEM and EDR for AI SOC. Tuskira connects by API and MCP, and you can add sources over time. Nothing has to be migrated or centralized first.

Who uses Tuskira?

Security teams at Intrado, Accorian and Tryfacta, and many more. Published case studies cover a global retail brand, a global manufacturer and a global financial services company. "2026 is the year cyber defenses are seeing the shift from AI-assisted attacks to AI-enabled attacks, and defenders need to adapt. That's why Intrado partnered with Tuskira," said Charles Gifford, CISO at Intrado. Read the case studies.

What results have Tuskira customers seen?

Results Tuskira has published from customer deployments include the following.

• 12.3 million raw findings cut to 0.46% actionable at a global financial services company
• Exposure triage time down from three weeks to about thirty minutes
• 95% fewer false positives
• 98% less alert noise reaching analysts
• About four minutes from initial attack to approved containment

What awards and analyst recognition has Tuskira received?

Tuskira was named a Representative Vendor in the Gartner® Market Guide for Adversarial Exposure Validation, and has been recognized in research from Frost & Sullivan, 451 Research and IDC. In 2026 it was named a SINET16 Honoree, one of 16 chosen from 158 applicants, and won Gold in the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards for Agentic AI Security. In 2025 it won two Cloud Security Awards, for Best Use of AI in a Cloud Security Solution and Best Security Solution in Risk Identification and Risk Management.

Can we buy Tuskira through a partner?

Yes. Tuskira works with delivery partners including KPMG, Wipro and Infotrust, plus MSSPs and resellers. You can buy directly or through a partner you already work with. See the partner program.

Does Tuskira offer anything open source?

Yes. The Tuskira AI Agent Gateway is an open-source, self-hosted gateway between AI agents and the LLMs and MCP tools they use. It lets teams set access once, see every call that passes through it and track token spend across providers. It's pre-1.0 and the source is on GitHub. Learn about the gateway.

Where can I see Tuskira in action?

Watch the demo videos for the platform, the AI SOC agents and the Security Data Fabric, or request a live demo on your own stack.

How do I contact Tuskira?

Request a demo at tuskira.ai/request-a-demo, or email info@tuskira.ai. Tuskira is headquartered at 4695 Chabot Drive, Suite 108, Pleasanton, California.