TENEX was founded to solve the hardest problem in enterprise security: the coverage gap. Not because analysts aren't talented, but because human-speed triage can never match machine-speed attacks.
AI attacks don't wait for human analysts. Fully-Agentic, Human-Led Security Operations closes the gap between machine-speed threats and human-scale response.
AI Attacks scale exponentially. Human resources scale linearly. Attackers exploit the gap. That is the impossible math, and every conventional answer, more tooling, more outsourcing, more headcount, makes it worse. We built the alternative: agents that own the volume, and accountable experts who own the judgment.
We didn't partner with the platform vendors. Our founding engineers created Google Chronicle, now Google SecOps, and our operators have scaled MDR businesses before.
The founding engineers of Google Chronicle build the agentic platform. Detection content, data pipelines, and hyperscaler behavior are not reverse-engineered here; they were designed by this team.
A former Fortune 50 CISO and the MDR leaders who scaled prior providers sit behind every service decision, from SLO design to escalation paths.
Every escalation is owned by a named analyst averaging 8+ years of experience. Zero offshore handoffs, on every plan, without exception.
The founding team has built, scaled, and sold security operations businesses before — and built the platforms they ran on.
Co-founded Cyderes and led it as President through the merger with Herjavec Group. Three-time CISO (UMB Financial, Netsmart), early executive at RiskIQ and President at Stairwell.
Founding executive at Fishtech Group and CFO & COO of Cyderes. Previously CFO at FireMon and Controller at Garmin.
Former head of Security Sales for Google Cloud Security and Director of Sales at ProtectWise.
Founding engineer of Google’s core SecOps stack. Leads the team building the agentic platform.
Former Microsoft CVP responsible for AI Copilot for Security and Threat Intelligence; former CEO of RiskIQ. General Partner, Manousos Investments; Venture Partner, Shield Capital.
Five principles that decide how we run the company, hire, and answer a customer at 3am.
We measure by customer outcomes, not internal activity.
Speak up early. Ask questions. Help others. No surprises.
Make it work, then make it better. Automate the painful.
Show the work. No black boxes. No lock-in, ever.
Hours and minutes matter in cyber. Urgency without chaos.
Two profiles, the same impossible math, the same answer.
TENEX.ai is the leader in agentic-native, human-led security operations and a next-generation MDR provider built by operators who have scaled MDR before, with founding engineers from Google Chronicle and leading AI labs. TENEX serves enterprise customers across the Google and Microsoft security ecosystems.
The TENEX AI-native, human-led agentic SOC platform autonomously triages, investigates, hunts, and responds to threats, with elite human analysts always in the loop, combining the speed and scale of AI with the accountability of human-led security operations.
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