Every step looks legitimate
PowerShell. SSH. Git. Cloud APIs. Kubernetes. None are inherently malicious. Attackers use legitimate credentials, trusted services, and familiar admin tools, so each action on its own looks like normal operations.
Whether an AI-accelerated attacker breaches the perimeter or a rogue agent turns from within, Nodal CyberBrain™ spots the early signs of compromise and cuts them off at machine speed, while every device stays online.
See how CyberBrain traces an attack and cuts it off
Attack graph
Ticket 33
Detections
3
Devices in chain
4
Subnets affected
2
Devices isolated
0
Once inside, attackers establish command channels, move between systems, and adapt their activity as they stage their attack. AI-driven attacks have accelerated the pace. By the time the team has correlated the signals, reconstructed what happened and agreed on a response, the attacker is several steps ahead.
4min
Fastest observed breakout from initial access to lateral movement
ReliaQuest 2026Read more(opens in a new tab)
45min
A human approval cycle, while a machine-speed attack progresses every six minutes
Booz Allen 2026Read more(opens in a new tab)
5+years
Volt Typhoon operating inside US critical infrastructure before discovery
CISA / FBIRead more(opens in a new tab)
PowerShell. SSH. Git. Cloud APIs. Kubernetes. None are inherently malicious. Attackers use legitimate credentials, trusted services, and familiar admin tools, so each action on its own looks like normal operations.
An autonomous agent can move through clusters, running its command channel over ordinary and trusted web services. Runtime tools might flag odd activity on each host they watch. But without the network evidence that ties those hosts together, every signal stays ambiguous. The alert never reaches the severity that alerts your team, and the agent keeps working for days.
Printers, controllers, edge network appliances and legacy applications can't run an agent. When attackers relay commands through them and pivot subnet to subnet, the attack path goes dark in the middle, even though every hop still crosses the network.
The network is the ground truth adversaries can't avoid.
Attackers can evade an agent or reuse valid logins, but every move still crosses the wire. That's where the evidence comes together, joined across every device, account and service.
CyberBrain detects attacker behavior on the network itself, like discovery and lateral movement, and pulls in alerts from existing security tools. It maps every communication between devices, across multiple hops, and joins the activity into one attack graph within seconds, ready to cut off.
CyberBrain blocks the attacker's command channel immediately, while every device stays online. Blocks are time-limited and reversible, so your team investigates with the pressure off, and high-risk incidents are contained before they spread.
CyberBrain pre-processes and triages the evidence, then sends only the tickets that need it to a configurable AI model, so you pay for investigation, not raw data analysis. Each investigation delivers enriched findings, a risk verdict and clear next steps. Analysts review a finished investigation instead of building one, and escalate only when the evidence calls for it.
Inside your network
A simulated network of five sites. In turn: Rogue AI agent, Credential hijack, Exploited server, Breakout and scan. Each is detected while it happens, its channel is cut, and every device stays online.
Threat contained
C2 blocked, every device online
Response guided
Plain-language next steps
Deep network visibility of every device, service and relationship, as the network actually behaves, including devices that can't run an agent.
Gain deep network observabilitySpot attacker behavior inside the network, not just at its perimeter, and join weak signals into one attack path as it unfolds.
Explore the detection engineReliable, understandable, actionable investigations, consolidated into a few Tickets, with automated mitigation and containment.
Actionable investigationWhen an AI agent escapes its guardrails, CyberBrain is the network-level failsafe: it detects where insider threats operate and isolates them.
Lightweight software probes monitor switch-level traffic. Endpoint agents cover cloud workloads, or add process attribution where you need it.
Integrate CyberBrain with the EDR, identity, firewall and SIEM you already run.
The proof
A resort with next-generation firewalls, endpoint detection and response, intrusion prevention, zero trust and 24/7 MSSP monitoring had an adversary living in its network for six to twelve months. Within hours of installing Nodal CyberBrain, the full campaign was mapped. It was remediated in 48 hours, with no impact on guests.
Validated by Greg Akers — former SVP of Security Research at Cisco.
$500K+
Annual security spend already in place
6–12months
Undetected inside the network, without CyberBrain
48h
To full remediation once CyberBrain was deployed
$0
Guest-facing business impact
Partners
In the field
At JSI Telecom US, we provide critical information needs to governments around the world. The Nodal CyberBrain is an integral part of our information security defense-in-depth strategy… It provides us with certainty to clearly see any anomalous activity in our environment.
See it live
Thirty minutes with a Nodal engineer: see the network from the inside out as an attack is detected, traced and stopped live, with every device online. Then get straight answers on deploying CyberBrain in your network.