What ZERON does

ZERON (legally Teamcognito Solutions Pvt Ltd.) is a Mumbai-headquartered cybersecurity software company that provides an AI-driven Cyber Risk Posture Management (CRPM) platform for enterprise security teams. The company's technology centers on autonomous cybersecurity agents orchestrated through a proprietary Security Intelligence Fabric (SIF) knowledge graph, layered with a multi-LLM routing layer (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, local Ollama), a declarative US-ADSL schema, and six runtime guardrails covering rate-limit, scope+auth, data classification, cost+compliance, and zero-trust checks. The product suite includes ZAK (an Apache 2.0 open-source Agent Development Kit with 19+ specialized agents), Cyber Navigator (a conversational AI interface for real-time risk insights), and modules for compliance (Conformity), internal risk (Interno), third-party risk (Vendor Pulse), cyber insurance underwriting (Insure Pulse), external attack surface (Externo), and FAIR-inspired financial risk quantification (QBER).

The platform unifies more than 40 pre-built integrations across hyperscalers, identity providers, SIEM/SOAR, EDR/XDR, vulnerability management, ITSM, and PAM categories, and is sold primarily through a direct enterprise sales motion targeting CISOs and security leaders in financial services and other regulated verticals, supplemented by a Microsoft marketplace listing and an MSSP/SI/technology-alliance partner program. Pricing is quote-based annual subscription with no publicly disclosed tiers or free trial. Visible customers are concentrated in Indian financial services, including Aditya Birla Sunlife AMC, Spandana, Finova Capital, ValueQuest, and Open, with the company claiming customer outcomes of over $1M in risk exposure reduction and 52,345+ bridged security gaps.

The company was founded in 2020 (per firmographic data; some sources cite 2023 incorporation) and operates with 11-50 employees from offices in Mumbai, India and Wilmington, Delaware. Capital raised to date totals approximately $1.95M across four rounds (100X.VC, Varanium Capital-led seed, follow-on rounds), and the company has not yet disclosed a Series A.

Name

ZERON

Legal name

Teamcognito Solutions Pvt Ltd.

Website

https://zeron.one

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

ZERON (Teamcognito Solutions Pvt Ltd.) is a Mumbai-based cybersecurity startup that provides an AI-driven Cyber Risk Posture Management platform featuring autonomous security agents, a Security Intelligence Fabric knowledge graph, and modules for compliance, vendor risk, and financial risk quantification, sold to enterprise CISOs primarily in financial services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cybersecurity Risk Management Software

NAICS

Security Systems Services (56162)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Model Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Platforms (HDAAAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Attack Surface Management (EASM/CAASM) (HDADAHAC)

Keywords

• Cyber risk management
• Security posture management
• Autonomous security agents
• Third-party risk management
• Regulatory compliance management

Headquarters

HQ city

Mumbai

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Cyber Risk Posture Management Platform: Zeron offers a comprehensive cyber risk posture management platform with multiple modules including Attack Surface Management, Compliance, Defense, Cyber Navigator, and specialized solutions like Vendor Pulse, Insure Pulse, Interno, and Externo. The platform likely operates on a subscription SaaS model with tiered pricing based on organization size or module selection.
2. ZAK Enterprise: Enterprise version of the Agent Development Kit with 19+ specialized agents, unified dashboard, multi-tenant governance, and enterprise-grade controls. Likely sold as an enterprise license with premium support.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

ZERON operates an AI-powered Cyber Risk Posture Management (CRPM) platform that consolidates attack surface, compliance, defense, and risk quantification capabilities. Its products include ZAK (an open-source Apache 2.0 Agent Development Kit), Cyber Navigator (a conversational AI risk interface), and modular solutions such as Conformity, Interno, Vendor Pulse, Insure Pulse, Externo, and QBER. The platform unifies threat intelligence, compliance logs, vendor risk, and external risk data through a Security Intelligence Fabric.

Product overview

ZERON is a cybersecurity platform offering a unified Cyber Risk Posture Management (CRPM) system with multiple integrated modules. The core products include ZAK (Zeron Agent Development Kit), an open-source framework for building autonomous cybersecurity agents, and Cyber Navigator, a conversational AI interface for real-time cyber risk insights. The platform modules include Conformity (compliance management), Interno (internal risk), Vendor Pulse (third-party risk), Insure Pulse (cyber insurance underwriting), Externo (external attack surface), and QBER (financial risk quantification). These are unified through Zeron's Security Intelligence Fabric that connects threat intelligence, compliance data, and risk signals into a comprehensive risk management system.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ZAK (Zeron Agent Development Kit): Open-source framework for building, deploying, and governing autonomous cybersecurity agents supporting Python, Node.js, and Go
• Cyber Navigator
• Conformity
• Interno
• Vendor Pulse
• Insure Pulse
• Externo
• QBER (Quantified Business Exposure to Risk)

Products and services

• ZAK (Zeron Agent Development Kit) Open-source framework (Apache 2.0) for building, deploying, and governing autonomous cybersecurity agents. Supports Python, Node.js, and Go with declarative agent definitions, runtime guardrails, and shared knowledge graph. Includes built-in agents such as risk_quant, vuln_triage, appsec, threat_intel, cloud_posture, pentest, and red_team.
• Cyber Navigator Conversational AI interface providing real-time cyber risk insights and visualizations. Leverages Zeron's Context Engine to generate dynamic dashboards and connect technical signals to business impact for security and business stakeholders.
• Conformity Cybersecurity compliance management solution for tracking security posture against regulatory frameworks. Supports GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001, NIST, PCI DSS, and SOC2 with dynamic dashboards and evidence-based reporting.
• Interno Internal cyber risk management solution that continuously monitors systems, endpoints, and internal activities to detect vulnerabilities, configuration gaps, and suspicious behavior.
• Vendor Pulse Third-party cyber risk management solution for identifying and managing vendor-related security exposures across the supply chain.
• Insure Pulse Cyber insurance underwriting solution that provides structured visibility into security signals, exposures, and control maturity for informed underwriting decisions by insurance carriers.
• Externo External attack surface monitoring solution for identifying and monitoring cyber risks across an organization's external digital footprint and internet-facing assets.
• QBER (Quantified Business Exposure to Risk) Quantitative risk measurement framework that translates cybersecurity signals into measurable financial exposure, enabling organizations to understand business impact of technical risks using FAIR-inspired scoring.
• Cyber Risk Posture Management (CRPM) Comprehensive platform encompassing Attack Surface Management, Compliance Module, Defence Module, and Zensor endpoint agent for unified cyber risk posture visibility.
• Zeron Intelligence Security Intelligence Fabric serving as the connective tissue unifying threat intelligence feeds, compliance logs, third-party risk inputs, and external risk data into a living, adaptive system of intelligence.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduced cyber risk exposure by over $1M for customers
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration69 records

AI capability8 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• MicrosoftcoreTechnology or IntegrationZeron maintains a marketplace listing on Microsoft Marketplace and provides integrations with Microsoft security products including Microsoft Defender, Azure AD, Microsoft 365, and Azure cloud platforms.
• CyberArkcoreTechnology or IntegrationDeep integration partnerships with CyberArk's full PAM suite including Privileged Account Security, Privilege Cloud, Alero, Endpoint Privilege Manager, and Idaptive for comprehensive identity security coverage.
• AWScoreTechnology or IntegrationAWS integrations including AWS GuardDuty and AWS CSPM for cloud security posture management and threat detection on Amazon Web Services infrastructure.
• Google CloudcoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegrations with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Google Chronicle Security/SOAR for SIEM and security operations capabilities.
• Check PointcoreTechnology or IntegrationComprehensive Check Point integrations covering Next Generation Firewalls, CloudGuard, Harmony Endpoint, Infinity, and Multi-Domain Security Management.
• ZscalercoreTechnology or IntegrationMultiple Zscaler integrations including ZPA, Web Security, Client Connector, Deception Technology, SSPM, Workload Segmentation, and ZDX for comprehensive SASE and security service edge coverage.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Safe Security: Safe Security (SAFE) provides a cyber risk posture management platform with FAIR-based risk quantification and breach-likelihood scoring. It is the closest direct competitor to ZERON's CRPM/QBER positioning, targeting CISOs and insurance underwriters with similar financial-impact framing.
• RiskLens: RiskLens is a pioneer in FAIR-based cyber risk quantification, translating technical risk into financial terms for CISOs, boards, and insurers. It is a direct competitor to Zeron's QBER module on the financial-risk-quantification axis.
• Balbix: Balbix offers an AI-driven cyber risk and exposure management platform that unifies vulnerability, asset, and risk data into a single prioritized view. It directly overlaps with Zeron's attack-surface and risk-posture modules and competes for the same CISO buyer.
• Axio: Axio provides cyber risk quantification and security program benchmarking, with a focus on financial-impact modeling and insurance underwriting use cases. Its FAIR-aligned methodology overlaps with Zeron's QBER and Insure Pulse offerings.

Broad incumbents

• Wiz: Wiz provides a cloud security platform with agentless and agent-based posture management, vulnerability prioritization, and AI-driven risk context. It overlaps with Zeron's cloud-posture and Externo attack-surface capabilities from a cloud-native incumbent angle.
• Microsoft Security: Microsoft Security Copilot and the Defender/Sentinel/Entra stack offer agentic security AI integrated across cloud, identity, and endpoint. It is the largest platform competitor and ZERON's tight Microsoft marketplace presence reflects both partnership and competitive overlap.
• CrowdStrike: CrowdStrike's Falcon platform combines endpoint protection with Charlotte AI agentic capabilities and broader exposure management. As a much larger incumbent, it competes for the same enterprise security budget as ZERON and can bundle agentic features into an existing endpoint/SIEM contract.
• Splunk: Splunk (now part of Cisco) provides a SIEM/SOAR platform with AI-assistant capabilities for security operations and risk analytics. It is one of Zeron's integration partners but also a broad incumbent competing for security-operations budget.
• Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto's Cortex XSIAM and Copilot offerings deliver an AI-driven security operations platform with attack surface management, SIEM, and SOC automation. It represents a broad incumbent alternative to Zeron's agent-led risk-posture platform.

Emerging players

• Tines: Tines is a no-code security automation platform that orchestrates workflows across the security stack. It is comparable to Zeron's ZAK agent framework as an emerging player in agentic security automation, though focused on workflow orchestration rather than risk quantification.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/securezeron
• GitHubgithub.com/securezeron/zeron-agent-development-kit
• Facebookfacebook.com/securezeron
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/securezeron

Compliance7 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds5 records

Investors5 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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