As enterprises grapple with an overwhelming tide of security alerts and increasingly sophisticated threats powered by artificial intelligence, a new collaboration aims to revolutionise how organisations defend themselves. NuSummit Cybersecurity has struck a strategic partnership with Simbian to launch CognixMDR, an advanced managed detection and response service that harnesses autonomous AI technology to combat modern cyber threats.
The alliance, announced on 15th January 2026, brings together Mountain View, California-based Simbian—a leader in building superintelligence for security operations—with Mumbai-headquartered NuSummit Cybersecurity, which operates as part of the global NuSummit organisation. Through this arrangement, NuSummit has acquired Simbian’s flagship AI SOC product to serve as the technological backbone of its new security offering.
CognixMDR represents a fundamental shift in how managed detection and response services operate. Rather than relying solely on human analysts to wade through countless security alerts, the platform employs Simbian’s AI SOC Agent to function as a virtual security analyst. The system automatically investigates, triages, and responds to threats flagged by various security tools, including SIEM, XDR, and EDR systems.
According to Ambuj Kumar, Co-Founder and CEO of Simbian, the partnership addresses a critical need in the industry. “Security is a domain of ever-increasing complexity where every incident brings new variables,” Kumar explained. “Our partnership with NuSummit is a significant step toward our mission of making autonomous security accessible to everyone. By integrating our AI SOC into CognixMDR, we are enabling NuSummit to deliver customers a faster, more scalable path to strategic defense.”
The technical architecture underlying the service sets it apart from traditional MDR offerings. Built on Simbian’s proprietary TrustedLLM architecture and the Simbian Context Lake, the AI SOC Agent can comprehend each customer’s unique standard operating procedures and business environment. This contextual understanding allows the system to resolve up to 90 per cent of security alerts without requiring human intervention.
Meanwhile, NuSummit’s team of security experts maintains oversight and handles customer communications, ensuring that the human element remains integral to the service delivery. The platform provides round-the-clock autonomous monitoring, working continuously to correlate disparate security signals, identify hidden threat patterns, and execute real-time remediation.
Sameer Shelke, President of NuSummit and CEO of NuSummit Cybersecurity, emphasised the significance of the collaboration for his company’s clients. “At NuSummit, we are committed to helping our clients navigate the most intricate cybersecurity challenges,” Shelke said. “By choosing Simbian’s AI SOC to power CognixMDR, we are setting a new benchmark for managed detection and response services. This partnership enables us to offer our customers a truly future‑ready SOC, combining deep human expertise with the unmatched speed, scalability, and precision of agentic AI.”
The timing of this launch reflects mounting pressures facing security operations teams worldwide. In-house teams frequently find themselves overwhelmed by alert volumes whilst simultaneously struggling with a persistent shortage of skilled security personnel. These challenges are compounded by the emergence of AI-armed attacks, which represent a new frontier in cyber threat sophistication.
By addressing these pain points, CognixMDR aims to dramatically reduce Mean Time to Respond (MTTR) whilst ensuring that 100 per cent of security alerts receive attention. The service moves beyond conventional manual triage processes to deliver what NuSummit terms ‘Cognitive MDR capabilities’, leveraging autonomous agents to handle the heavy lifting of threat detection and initial response.
NuSummit brings substantial credentials to this partnership, having built deep expertise through years of delivering MDR services to leading financial institutions, government agencies, and large enterprises globally. The company maintains a presence across India, the Middle East, and the United States, serving more than 300 global businesses. Its portfolio spans multiple sectors, with particular focus on capital markets, brokerage firms, investment banks, clearing houses, insurers covering property, casualty and life categories, and asset management firms.
The cybersecurity division offers specialised expertise across identity and access management, risk advisory, security verification, managed detection and response, and security engineering services. Backed by Investcorp, a prominent global alternative investment firm, NuSummit positions itself as a partner for organisations seeking to navigate the complex digital and cybersecurity landscape.
For MDR providers, the integration of Simbian’s technology operates largely behind the scenes. The AI SOC performs its autonomous functions whilst trained security staff from the MDR provider continues to deliver final oversight and manage client relationships. This model allows providers to scale their operations significantly without proportionally increasing headcount.
Simbian, a venture-backed company headquartered in Mountain View, describes its mission as building superintelligence for accelerated security. The company develops AI agents designed to function like virtual employees, autonomously completing various security tasks with precision and efficiency. Its registered trademark technologies, including TrustedLLM and the Simbian Context Lake, form the foundation of its approach to autonomous security operations.
CognixMDR is now available to customers worldwide, marking NuSummit’s entry into the cognitive MDR market segment. The service builds upon the company’s established track record in the cybersecurity services sector whilst introducing capabilities that reflect the evolving threat landscape of 2026.
The partnership exemplifies a broader trend in cybersecurity, where artificial intelligence is increasingly deployed not as a replacement for human expertise but as an amplifier of it. By handling the routine investigation and triage of security alerts, AI systems free skilled security professionals to focus on complex threats, strategic planning, and client engagement.
As organisations face mounting cyber risks in an environment where attackers themselves leverage artificial intelligence, the race to deploy defensive AI capabilities has intensified. The NuSummit-Simbian collaboration represents one approach to this challenge, combining autonomous technology with human oversight to create what both companies describe as a future-ready security operations model.