New Sentinel AI Analyst closes 96% of tier-1 alerts without a human

Stop the breach, not the business

Guardian Sentinel unifies endpoint, network, cloud, identity and data telemetry into a single autonomous platform — detecting intrusions in under a second, containing them without waiting for an analyst, and handing your auditors the evidence trail automatically.

Single lightweight agent. No kernel driver conflicts. Production rollout in under 30 minutes — and you keep your existing SIEM.

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ENDPOINT NETWORK CLOUD IDENTITY DATA SAAS Protected surface Attack blocked at perimeter

Trusted by security teams at 6,800+ organisations, including 43 of the Fortune 100

Halcyon Bank
Verax Health
Nordkraft
Orbital Freight
Solvex Labs
Trellis Retail
Arkadia
Vantage Telecom

Measured, not marketed

Numbers our customers can reproduce

Every figure below is drawn from anonymised production telemetry across the Guardian Sentinel fleet for the twelve months ending 30 June 2026.

0.9s Median time to detect a hands-on-keyboard intrusion P95: 4.6 seconds
8.4s Median time to contain, from first malicious signal to host isolation Autonomous mode, no analyst in the loop
91% Reduction in tier-1 alerts reaching human analysts Measured across 412 enterprise SOCs
4.2T Security events correlated every week by the Sentinel graph Roughly 6.9 million events per second

Detection and containment timings exclude scheduled maintenance windows and are calculated on production tenants with autonomous response enabled. Full methodology is published in the Sentinel Efficacy Report.

The problem

Adversaries automated first. Most defences did not.

Intrusions no longer look like malware on a laptop. They look like a valid login from an unusual ASN, a legitimate binary doing something it has never done, and a cloud role quietly granting itself more than it needs — all inside an hour.

Breakout time collapsed to 41 minutes

The median interval between initial access and the first lateral move has fallen 58% since 2019. Ticket queues and shift handovers cannot keep pace with that clock.

79% of intrusions are identity-driven

Stolen sessions, token replay and MFA fatigue produce activity that is technically authorised. Signature-based tooling has nothing to match on.

The average enterprise runs 76 security tools

Each one produces its own alerts, its own console and its own blind spots. Correlation becomes a human job performed at 3 a.m. under time pressure.

0 25 50 75 100 41 minutes median breakout, 2026 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Median breakout time (minutes) Identity-driven intrusions (%)
Source: Guardian Labs telemetry and incident-response engagements, 2019–2026. Breakout time is measured from confirmed initial access to the first successful lateral movement attempt.

The Sentinel platform

Six surfaces. One decision engine.

Guardian Sentinel is not a bundle of point products sharing a login page. Every module writes into the same behavioural graph, so a phishing click, a credential replay and an S3 enumeration become one incident — not three tickets.

Endpoint security

A single 12 MB agent for Windows, macOS, Linux and ARM covers prevention, EDR and forensic capture. Ransomware canaries trigger automatic rollback of encrypted files from local shadow copies in under four seconds.

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Network security

Passive sensors and inline enforcement points reconstruct east-west flows, fingerprint encrypted sessions without decryption, and cut command-and-control egress at the switch the moment a beacon is confirmed.

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Cloud security

Agentless posture scanning across AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI plus runtime protection for containers, Kubernetes and serverless. Drift between your IaC baseline and live infrastructure is flagged in under five seconds.

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Identity protection

Continuous risk scoring for every human and machine identity. Sentinel detects token theft, impossible travel, Kerberoasting and privilege escalation, then revokes the session before the adversary reaches a domain controller.

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Data protection

Classify structured and unstructured data in place, track where regulated records actually travel, and block exfiltration to unmanaged devices, personal cloud accounts and generative AI endpoints.

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Automation & response

The Sentinel AI Analyst reconstructs the full attack narrative, chooses a containment playbook, executes it, and writes the evidence pack your regulator will ask for — with a documented rollback path for every action.

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Correlation, not collection

Thirty-one signals. One incident. Zero pages at 3 a.m.

This is a real intrusion pattern, replayed from a Guardian Labs engagement. Every node below arrived from a different sensor. Sentinel stitched them into one graph, scored it, and contained the host before the staging step completed.

sentinel://incidents/INC-2026-04817 — severity CRITICAL — status CONTAINED
T1566.001 T1078.004 T1059.001 T1021.002 T1580 Phishing mail Mail gateway Token replay Identity provider Child process Endpoint agent SMB lateral Network sensor Cloud enum. Cloud connector Data staging never executed Contained at 8.4s t+0.0s t+1.7s t+3.1s t+5.8s t+7.9s t+8.4s
Reasoned, not rule-matched Sentinel explains why it acted in plain language, cites the evidence, and shows the confidence interval behind every decision.
Reversible by design Every autonomous action carries a one-click rollback and a full audit record, including which model version made the call.
Audit-ready output Incidents export as a signed evidence pack mapped to your control framework — no analyst write-up required.

How it works

From first packet to closed incident in three moves

Sentinel ingests everything you already generate, decides what matters, and acts — within the guardrails your security architects define.

TELEMETRY Endpoint agents Network sensors Cloud & container APIs Identity providers Third-party feeds Sentinel reasoning engine Behavioural graph & entity resolution Adversary technique mapping Confidence scoring & policy guardrails AUTONOMOUS RESPONSE Isolate host, preserve forensics Revoke session & rotate credentials Block C2 egress at the edge Publish signed evidence pack Median end-to-end: 8.4 seconds

Deploy and baseline

Push the agent through your existing MDM or configuration manager and connect cloud and identity providers with read-only roles. Sentinel spends its first 72 hours learning what normal looks like in your estate — which service accounts touch which shares, which build agents call which registries — before it enforces anything.

Typical time to first value: 4 hours.

Detect and correlate

Behavioural models score every process, session, flow and API call against that baseline and against Guardian Labs intelligence on 340 tracked adversary groups. Related signals collapse into a single incident with a scored attack narrative, mapped to technique-level detail your team already speaks.

Median detection: 0.9 seconds.

Contain and prove

Above your confidence threshold, Sentinel executes the containment playbook you approved — isolate, revoke, block, quarantine — and records what it did and why. Below the threshold, it drafts the recommendation and waits for a human. Either way you finish with an evidence pack, not a blank incident report.

Median containment: 8.4 seconds.

We replaced four consoles and a nightly log-shipping job with one platform. The number that changed my mind was not detection rate — it was that our analysts stopped starting every shift with 900 open alerts. Last quarter Sentinel contained a token-replay intrusion at 02:14 and my on-call engineer read about it over breakfast.

Elena Okafor
Chief Information Security Officer, Halcyon Bank

Halcyon Bank — 18 months on Guardian Sentinel

96%fewer escalations to tier 2
4→1consoles in the SOC
$3.1Mannual tooling spend retired

Halcyon runs Sentinel across 61,000 endpoints, three cloud providers and a regulated on-premises core banking estate under DORA supervision.

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