Cloud and endpoint cybersecurity startup Uptycs Inc. today announced a new strategic partnership with SAP SE to deploy verifiable artificial intelligence analysts that augment enterprise security teams.

The collaboration centers on Uptycs’ AI analyst platform Juno, which acts as “virtual employees.” They’re designed to augment security operation center teams and allow analysts to concentrate on advanced threat hunting and deeper attack path analysis while improving overall security coverage and resilience.

The Juno platform was originally developed as a threat hunting platform capable of analyzing activity across both cloud-native and on-premises environments but is now being positioned as a broader strategic cybersecurity assistant. The platform analyzes telemetry from cloud infrastructure, containers and endpoints to help security teams identify threats, investigate incidents and understand attack paths across complex enterprise environments.

The partnership with SAP demonstrates how AI systems can be deployed in enterprise environments in a verifiable and transparent way.

Juno’s architecture uses a “glass box” approach that allows security teams to trace AI-generated insights back to the underlying data and evidence used to produce them. The platform relies on a unified telemetry containing roughly 150,000 structured data fields that describe relationships between different types of security data to help ensure that the AI’s conclusions can be validated rather than accepted blindly.

The system is also designed to produce higher-level strategic insights, with early deployments showing that the platform can generate detailed cybersecurity risk reports within minutes that would normally take weeks for consulting teams to prepare. Each report generated includes hyperlinked references tied to an organization’s internal telemetry and external vulnerability databases, such as Common Vulnerability and Exposure records, that ensure that recommendations are supported by verifiable evidence.

SAP’s involvement brings the potential for large-scale enterprise adoption, as the company serves hundreds of thousands of enterprise customers globally and operates across more than 150 countries, providing cloud services, enterprise applications and AI capabilities that power mission-critical business systems.

“Security in today’s cloud‑centric world demands tools that not only detect threats, but elevate strategic decision‑making,” said Roland Costea, chief information security officer and executive vice president of enterprise cloud services at SAP. “Our partnership with Uptycs reflects a shared commitment to verifiable, intelligent cybersecurity solutions that empower teams to stay ahead of risk while transforming how enterprise security operates.”

Uptycs is a venture capital-backed startup that has raised approximately $93 million in funding, including rounds of $30 million in June 2020 and $50 million in May 2021. Investors in the company include Sapphire Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners LP, ServiceNow Ventures, Comcast Ventures and ForgePoint Capital.

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