SaaS application security provider Valence and managed detection and response (MDR) firm eSentire have announced the launch of new tools leveraging generative AI to boost cyber resilience and simplify cybersecurity tasks.

Valence announced the integration of a new AI assistant tool—which the firm claims is an industry-first for SaaS security—into its platform. The company says its new AI assistant will allow analysts to identify and contextualize SaaS application risks and apply remediation measures without requiring extensive knowledge of each individual application or platform’s terminology, configurations, data models, and permissions. 

eSentire launched “AI Investigator,” a proprietary generative model for its extended detection and response (XDR) platform. The solution leverages eSentire's database of reportedly more than one million cybersecurity investigations and response actions to provide customers with real-time security information via a simple language interface. The firm also utilizes AI Investigator to correlate threat signals with past events to reduce manual processing required by eSentire’s security operations center (SOC) and to assist the firm’s threat response unit (TRU) in proactively hunting down threats.

Analyst QuickTake: eSentire and Valence’s reveals are the latest in a string of announcements on generative AI in cybersecurity, with Google Cloud , Zscaler , ZeroFox , SentinelOne , Crowdstrike , Darktrace , and several others launching products and features either leveraging the technology or targeting security issues arising from its use.