About

Mission

 

Mission: Providing detailed intelligence against highly sophisticated network attacks.

Cognitive Security provides a flexible array of products and services, that provides clients with a granular view in their corporate-wide network activities.  This includes visibility into threats that traverse traditional network defenses, and may include sophisticated and unauthorized penetration into sensitive IT assets, targeted malware infections, or strategically motivated black hackers.  Cognitive Security specializes in quickly identifying these attacks, and allowing administrators to quickly mitigate against security breaches.

Vision: Optimize security costs by swiftly identifying unauthorized breaches to corporate assets.

If the mantra is "using the right tool for the right job", then Cognitive Security offers a cost-effective set of tools to significantly reduce, and in many cases eliminating an attacker's presence in a corporate network.  Cognitive Behavior Analysis is able to reveal the presence of an offending intruder, the methods they are deploying, and the assets they are targeting.  Security and IT administrators can then quickly identify the attackers, allowing them to take appropriate action to protect their assets.

Management

Martin Rehak

ImageCEO, Management Board Member, Founder

Besides his strategic role as a CEO, Martin also supervises the portfolio strategy of the company. His expertise covers both security and network monitoring, as well as the development of cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms. Martin is also a lead researcher with the Agent Technology Center at the Czech Technical University, where he directs cutting-edge research in network intrusion detection and prevention (IDS & IPS) in collaboration with Cognitive Security.

Prior to his current position, Martin was a member of the Mobile Communication Operations team of Schlumberger Smartcards (now Gemalto), where he defined, designed and integrated secure services for major telecommunication operators.

Martin Rehak holds an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale, Paris, France, and a PhD from the CTU Department of Cybernetics, Prague, Czech Republic. Martin was a 2005 McKinsey Scholar, and a visiting researcher with the Tokyo National Institute of Informatics, Japan, in 2006 and published more than 60 journal and conference papers in the fields of security and AI.

Gabriel Dusil

ImageVice President, Global Sales & Marketing

Gabriel Dusil oversees the sales & marketing strategies of Cognitive Security, with a mandate to expand the company's presence across Europe, the USA, and beyond.

Before joining Cognitive Security, Gabriel was the Director of Alliances at SecureWorks, responsible for partnerships across Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).  Previous to SecureWorks, Gabriel worked at VeriSign and Motorola in a combination of senior marketing and sales roles.

Over nearly two decades, Gabriel's experience has encompassed the development and management of international partner programs, EMEA marketing & sales, and business development.  Gabriel has also lectured in security, authentication, and data communications, as well as speaking in several prominent IT symposiums.

Gabriel obtained a Degree in Engineering Physics from the University of McMaster, in Canada and has advanced knowledge in Cloud Computing, SaaS (Security as a Service), Managed Security Services (MSS), Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Security Best Practices.

Michal Pechoucek

ImageChief Scientist, Management Board Member, Founder

Michal Pechoucek leads the advanced research and government-relations activities in Cognitive Security. He is an expert in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Cybernetics.

Michal is a full-time professor in artificial intelligence at the Czech Technical University (CTU), Prague, Czech Republic, and the Head of the Agent Technology Centre at the CTU. He has been a Principal Investigator in more than thirty research projects funded by the US Department of Defense (DoD) agencies, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He is a honorary member of the Artificial Intelligence Application Institute at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom and a member of the Advisory board of the Centre of Advanced Information Technologies at the University of Binghamton, New York, USA.

Vladislav Jez

ImageDirector

Vladislav is truly a Czech venture capital pioneer, he has been active in the venture capital industry since 1994 when he managed to launch one of the first VC funds in the region. As a Partner, Vladislav was actively involved in five venture capital funds with the total of 25 realized investments. He was also a board member/executive in 21 investee companies.
Vladislav is currently a Partner at Credo Ventures and a President of the Czech Private Equity and Venture Capital Association and was the Board Member of the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association from 2005 to 2008.

 

 

 

History

Cognitive Behavior Analysis is based on the Cooperative Adaptive Mechanism for Network Protection (CAMNEP) intrusion detection algorithm, developed by researchers from the Czech Technical University in Prague. The development of this algorithm has been partly funded by the US Army, through the Communications-Electronics Research, Development, and Engineering Center under grant number W911NF-08-1-0250. The technology was extensively tested on CESNET (academic ISP) and other educational networks. Once the research development of Cognitive Behavior Analysis passed the alpha and beta stages, the technology was spun-off into the Cognitive Security s.r.o. through a licensing agreement with Czech Technical University in Prague.

Milestones

August 2009

Cognitive Security was established.
Development of the CognitiveOne started from the earlier CAMNEP codebase in cooperation with CertiCon a.s.
January 2010
CognitiveOne launched as commercial product to selected European markets.
February 2010
Cognitive Security wins the Czechinvest competition for the participation in the government supported CzechAccelerator program.
April 2010
Cognitive Security opens branch office in Silicon Valley, (CA, USA), with the support of Czechinvest.
November 2010
Cognitive Security launches version 2.0 of its CognitiveOne product, integrating the feedback from their customers.
April 2011
Credo Ventures invests into Cognitive Security (Press releases: EN, CZ)

Vladislav is truly a Czech venture capital pioneer, he has been active in the venture capital industry since 1994 when he managed to launch one of the first VC funds in the region. As a Partner, Vladislav was actively involved in five venture capital funds with the total of 25 realized investments. He was also a board member/executive in 21 investee companies.
Vladislav is currently a Partner at Credo Ventures and a President of the Czech Private Equity and Venture Capital Association and was the Board Member of the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association from 2005 to 2008.