New Strategic Partnership with Senseon

IT Operations and Cyber Security expert KedronUK has signed a new vendor agreement with AI-driven cybersecurity specialists, Senseon. As a result of this agreement, KedronUK now offers customers a unified cybersecurity platform that integrates data from existing tools combined with native visibility, delivering actionable intelligence to strengthen their defence and reduce security team’s workload with AI-Driven automation.

Cyber criminals are rapidly advancing their attack techniques, while at the same time, enterprise security structures are becoming increasingly complex, in combination, these contribute to a severe talent shortage in the cybersecurity industry. Senseon’s aim is to fix the cybersecurity industry by automating the process of identifying cyber threats and removing the burden of mundane repetitive work for security teams and IT professionals.

Senseon’s comprehensive cybersecurity platform offers:

Unified Cyber Security Platform:

• Extended Detection and Response (XDR): Combining endpoint, network and identity telemetry with data from third-party cloud and SaaS platforms, which provides real-time threat detection, investigation, and response, reducing false positives and mean time to response (MTTR) to under 10 minutes.
• Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) & Network Detection and Response (NDR): With the aim of enhancing visibility and reducing the need for multiple tools, Senseon merges EDR and NDR capabilities into a single agent, offering AI-Powered threat detection and rapid response across endpoints, networks, and users.

AI-powered Threat Detection:

• Multilayered Threat Detection: Unlike most EDRs, Senseon links endpoint process to network interactions, providing unmatched context and eliminating threat blind spots.
• Attack Path Correlation: AI Triangulation technology correlates detections into emerging attack paths, meaning investigation times are shortened by having all the data and context with a single view and record.
• Automated Triage: AI Triangulation automatically assesses trust and risk for every detection, down scoring likely false positives unique to the customers environment.

Why KedronUK Partnered with Senseon

Many organisations have deployed a SIEM (among other security tools) but now find they are struggling with the costs of ingesting relevant data and operating the platform. Noise is also an ongoing issue, as even specialists in SOC teams are fighting a constant battle to prioritise and investigate events. For organisations without a dedicated SOC and a small IT team, this becomes an even bigger challenge when that team are also responsible for BAU activities and new projects.

Merging EDR and NDR into a single platform provides a wealth of information, reducing time to investigate threats. This is further enhanced with the Senseon AI engine which provides context to threats, assisting less experience staff to understand what has occurred. Along with saving time, organisations can also reduce costs in other areas such as tool consolidation and lower SIEM costs.

Finally, we believe Senseon’s managed service will be an attractive option to both small and large enterprises who want to elevate their security monitoring to a 24x7x365 basis. Managed XDR usually carries a considerable price premium, but Senseon’s use of AI sees the gap between the two service tiers greatly narrowed.

Phil Swainson, Head of Technology at KedronUK says: “Partnering with Senseon aligns perfectly with our mission to provide clients with the most advanced and effective analytics solutions available. Senseon’s unified platform simplifies complex security environments and delivers intelligent threat detection across the enterprise – a capability our clients will immediately benefit from.”

“Senseon has appointed KedronUK as a strategic partner to address a key challenge for customers: the unpredictability of security costs and return on investment” states Dave Atkinson, CEO and Founder of Senseon. “Both organisations recognise the substantial potential of this partnership. By collaborating closely, we aim to deliver solutions that provide greater transparency and predictability in security investments, ultimately enabling our customers to have increased and enhance protection in an evolving threat landscape.”

To find out more about Senseon please Contact us or get in contact with our sales team through sales@kedronuk.com. 

Who are Logpoint and when was the company established?

Logpoint was founded in 2012, and safeguards society in a digital world by helping customers and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) detect cyberattacks. Combining reliable technology with a deep understanding of cybersecurity challenges, Logpoint makes security operations easier, giving organisations the freedom to progress. Logpoint’s SIEM and NDR technologies improve visibility and give a multi-layered approach to cybersecurity that helps customers and MSSPs in Europe navigate the complex threat landscape. Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Logpoint has a European foundation and is the only European SIEM vendor with a Common Criteria EAL3+ certification. This demonstrates Logpoint’s strong focus on data protection and cybersecurity regulations. 

What’s new since KedronUK first partnered with Logpoint?

The biggest news in 2024 was Logpoint’s acquisition of Muninn, a Danish company specialising in AI-driven Network Detection & Response (NDR) technology. 

What new features have been introduced in the past year?

1. SIEM

• Support for .CSV and .TXT to import lists (IoC, malicious domains, IPs, etc.)
• Templated log sources, including syslog sources
• Dark mode
• Support for Azure Blog Storage for more cost-effective cloud-based storage methods and scalability to scale up or down in tiers of storage
• SaaS Logpoint Portal for centralised access management, expanding to on-prem SIEMs in 2025
• Onboarding with pre-configured compliance dashboards covering access management, incident management, and perimeter security monitoring. 

2. SOAR Playbooks

•  Playbook restoring
• Integration-agnostic playbooks for easier distribution to customers
• Playbook action for encoding/decoding HTML, changing case types and adding incidents as a new artifact

3. SOAR Case Management

• Automatic reading of the incidents and adding all the extractable data as artifacts to the case
• All-in-one screen case management with case timeline, graphical overview of artifacts relations in an incident, and the option to run automatic investigations from the case

4. Director 

• Templated log sources, including syslog log sources and cloud features
• Centralised health metrics monitoring dashboard
• Role-based access control for segregation of users permissions

What’s coming in 2025?

Throughout the following months, Logpoint will focus on different areas. To reduce operational overhead, Logpoint is looking for ways to improve log source onboarding and enhance log source activity monitoring and data integrity. Analysts will also benefit from better enrichment and querying features for threat hunting and will continue to get better threat detection, thanks to optimised T1 integrations and alerting. 

What gap does KedronUK fill for Logpoint?

Logpoint delivers a comprehensive end-to-end security platform, equipping organisations with everything they need for effective cybersecurity. Kedron complements this by providing value-added services and managing security complexities on behalf of end customers. Together, we enable organisations to stay focused on their core business while ensuring their security operations are well-managed and optimised. 

Phil Swainson, Head of Technology at KedronUK says: “We’ve found that customers managing enterprise networks are struggling to find a network performance management tool focused on packets that can handle the demands of high-speed, high-bandwidth networks, while not breaking the bank with excessive storage requirements. The unique way Allegro Packets solutions work means that network managers and IT Ops managers can get the information they need without having to search petabytes of data.”

What does Logpoint bring to KedronUK?

Logpoint brings a valuable SIEM capability to the KedronUK product and services portfolio. 

• Flexible deployment models including self-managed (on-premise / private cloud) and SaaS cover varying customer requirements. For users with specific compliance or contractual obligations, the SaaS instance can be provisioned in the UK to remove any concerns about data sovereignty.
• Logpoint’s transparent pricing model is easy to understand and provides cost clarity for users. Predicting costs can be difficult with other models such as ingestion-based billing (e.g. events per second or GB per day) and limit the scope of a deployment. There are also special license bundles for public sector customers such as the NHS. 
• Hundreds of out-of-the-box integrations allow users to collect data from a wide variety of sources and leverage existing security tools to improve detection, investigation, and response capabilities.

The recent acquisition of Muninn extends the security capabilities of Logpoint to include NDR/XDR. This provides additional visibility into Cloud, OT, and remote workers. 

To find out more about Logpoint, please Contact us or get in contact with our sales team through sales@kedronuk.com. 

Who are Allegro Packets and when was the company established?

Allegro Packets was formed by Klaus Denger, a serial tech entrepreneur, in 2007. Based out of Leipzig Germany his mission was to provide affordable, fast and easy to use insights into Network issues. This led to a range of 4th generation Network Performance management solutions.

How did Allegro Packets and Kedron come together?

Kedron was identified as a Partner who could add to Allegro’s channel only focus, as previous experience of working together of management made a good fit. Kedron’s customer first ethos fitted perfectly with Allegros, who’s continued development of the solution is based on customer feedback. 90% of all development is done this way with regular user feedback days.

What gap is Kedron filling for Allegro Packets?

Kedron as a partner brings real benefit as a true Value-added reseller. Years of experience in the Network performance management field has lead to a wealth of expertise that could see the benefit of the Allegro range. From small portable solutions to large Enterprise installations Kedron has the staff and project management skills to ensure a successful deployment.

What can Allegro Packets bring to Kedron?

When the initial solution was created. The first pillar was performance. 3rd Generation systems captured all the packets, then extracted for analysis. This had two problems. The first is time to extract those packets, mining through all the captured packets, takes time. The second is capturing and storing all those packets require huge drive arrays. 4th generation Allegros overcome this by real time analysis that allows users to instant go to the issues. Packets of interest can then be stored. This leads to the second pillar affordability. Less storage = lower cost. Allegro’s bring performance management back to sensible budgets levels with superb ROI. The third pillar, ease of use, is from a simple intuitive L2-7 menu system with a top down view means issues can be found quickly and easily. Add the software is the same on a large data centre as it is for portables an easy hybrid monitoring and ad-hoc environment can be created, without learning two sets of software.

Phil Swainson, Head of Technology at KedronUK says: “We’ve found that customers managing enterprise networks are struggling to find a network performance management tool focused on packets that can handle the demands of high-speed, high-bandwidth networks, while not breaking the bank with excessive storage requirements. The unique way Allegro Packets solutions work means that network managers and IT Ops managers can get the information they need without having to search petabytes of data.”

To find out more about Allegro Packets, please Contact us or get in contact with our sales team through sales@kedronuk.com. 

Who is Evolven?

Framing problem we solve

• Gartner says 85% of IT problems result from actual changes in your environment, mostly unanticipated or unapproved. 
• Experience tells us that there is almost always a time between the time these changes occur and when the resulting problems manifest themselves.
• Speaking to government auditors, we also know that the failure to document changes in the environment is the leading reason financial institutions fail their audits.
• Existing AIOps/monitoring tools like APM do a great job in identifying symptoms, but by then, something has gone wrong. The same applies to log analytics platforms like Splunk. All of them are necessary but are only a part of effective MTTR and root cause. 

While we all recognise that unknown changes are the root cause of most stability issues, IT nonetheless struggles to identify what has actually changed. Evolven allows enterprises to track all actual changes that have occurred in their environment, using machine learning to detect and prioritise the riskiest ones. With Evolven, IT Operations, DevOps, and CloudOps teams experience fewer incidents, faster MTTR, and improved productivity.

When was Evolven established? 

Evolven has been in business for thirteen years. Our founders had developed IT management products for companies like Mercury Interactive for many years. They found that traditional tools that track symptoms, while essential, fail to isolate and provide early warning for IT problems. These problems are multiplying as we automate the way we develop and deploy applications.

How did Evolven and Kedron come together? 

Evolven and Kedron executives have worked together in the past providing innovative solutions for IT stability, compliance, and security.

What gap is Kedron filling for Evolven? 

Evolven required a trustworthy and knowledgeable partner to service our customers in the UK using our comprehensive change assurance and insurance platform in full production at enterprises like JPMC, Citibank, and Visa, huge scale.

What can Evolven bring to Kedron? 

Evolven brings Kedron’s customers the ability to leverage their existing monitoring and service management tools and the data they produce to address difficult challenges in the area of IT stability, compliance, and security. Evolven acts as the glue between their existing reactive monitoring tools, their service desk, and the products they use to develop new applications.

Products like DynaTrace, AppDynamics, ServiceNow, Remedy, Jenkins, and Splunk. Evolven uniquely provides early warning on both authorised and unauthorised changes that are causing 85% of their problems, and at the level of granularity that allows your personnel to address the issue. 

Evolven features native AI/ML embedded in our platform that accurately assesses the risk of all the actual changes we collect. We have been developing this for over six years and have 5 US patents in this area. 

“We have demanding clients with mission-critical challenges on multiple fronts, on any given day. They rely on Evolven and our people to help them win those battles.  We are gratified to have KedronUK, an experienced and trusted provider to be our representative in the UK.” – Sasha Gilenson, CEO & Founder

“KedronUK are proud to become the Strategic Partner of Evolven in the UK. I believe Evolven’s unique approach to change management visibility, utilising their patented AI technology, will have a massive impact on the Operational and Security stability of our Customers and we look forward to sharing this unique technology with them.” – Roland Stigwood, Managing Director at KedronUK

Who are OpsRamp?

OpsRamp is an IT operations management software company whose SaaS platform is used by leading enterprise and service provider IT teams to monitor and manage their hybrid cloud and on-premise resources. The OpsRamp platform leverages AIOps and machine learning to deliver auto-discovery and monitoring of infrastructure, event and incident management, and automation and remediation. 

With OpsRamp, customers can achieve a single pane of glass through out-of-the-box integrations to popular third-party tools. OpsRamp investors include Sapphire Ventures, Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE).

When was OpsRamp established?

OpsRamp was established in 2014.

How did OpsRamp and Kedron come together?

Kedron needed to respond to its customer growing requirement to connect IT operation data from hybrid enterprise environments to present in a meaningful way. Quickly. Kedron had tested 17 different vendors in their lab and performed a detailed score analysis against requirements driven by request from their customer base. OpsRamp was the resounding winner.

What gap is Kedron filling for OpsRamp?

As a trusted advisor of IT operations and monitoring tools for enterprises and service providers, Kedron can help expose customers to the operational efficiency, cost savings, and IT governance benefits that the OpsRamp platform can deliver, and in turn help drive market share in the UK market and abroad.

What can OpsRamp bring to Kedron?

The OpsRamp platform bolsters the Kedron portfolio of solutions by bringing full end-to-end visibility into infrastructure wherever it lives.  This makes the life of an IT operations or DevOps professional much simpler, with data at their fingertips to maintain great-performing websites, apps and processes. OpsRamp also powers the intelligent automation of incident management processes so teams are always tackling high-priority issues first.

OpsRamp solves common customer challenges such as tool overload, silos of monitoring data, slow time to resolution, high manual effort, exorbitant IT operations software costs, and inability to support new digital products and services for end customers. The end goal of OpsRamp is to give customers easy-to-use tools for delivering highly resilient and flexible infrastructure necessary for supporting business and organizational growth.

“We are aggressively moving to support the AIOps needs of European enterprises where IT leaders want to deliver targeted value to their business counterparts through intelligent, automated IT operations. Kedron is a superb partner in that their team thoroughly appreciates the IT challenges of local businesses and have formed relationships with many of the region’s IT leaders.” – George Bonser, VP of Sales, EMEA at OpsRamp

“We are excited about our strategic partnership with OpsRamp. It is the missing piece in our already very successful portfolio and allows us to respond to the challenges we are seeing in the market, which are too much data, too few people and complex hybrid infrastructures. The team at OpsRamp have been exceptional in enabling our team and we are already working on a number of successful projects. We look forward to working closely with them in the coming months and years.” – Roland Stigwood, Managing Director at KedronUK