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Systemtwosecurity

Founded 2023 · 6 employees on LinkedIn · 5 known investors

System Two Security builds an AI-agent platform for detection engineering, operating the detections.ai community and enterprise product.

Also known as detections.ai · System Two Security · System Two Security Inc.

Investors · 5

Also in the syndicate · 4

Ash DevataCostanoa VenturesleadFrederic KerrestScott McNealy

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

System Two Security Inc. is a Palo Alto, California cybersecurity company that applies generative AI models and role-based agents to detection engineering and threat hunting for enterprise security teams. Its stated premise is that writing effective enterprise detections is largely a manual process that can take skilled teams days, while attackers increasingly use generative AI to raise the speed and sophistication of attacks; the company positions its models, trained on detection and security data, as a way to make detection creation ongoing, adaptive and automatic, generating actionable detections from identified coverage gaps.

The company's product is delivered as detections.ai, offered in a single product with two tiers. A free community tier gives users access to tens of thousands of community-contributed detections, an unlimited AI assistant for generating and refining rules, translation across nine rule languages, MITRE ATT&CK mapping on every detection, saved searches with email alerts, and publishing of their own detections. An enterprise tier adds live coverage views across a team's SIEMs (including CVE and MITRE ATT&CK mapping and historical trends), detections tuned to a customer's environment and data sources, scheduled AI routines that audit and tune the detection library, a private team workspace, governance, and deployment back into customer SIEMs. The platform is designed to work across major enterprise security systems including Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel and CrowdStrike's Next-Gen SIEM.

Founding story

The company was founded in 2023 by CEO Robert Fly, previously CEO of Elevate Security and a former Salesforce security executive, and CTO Prasanth Ganesan, a former Symantec executive.

Business model

B2B subscription SaaS, with a free community tier of the detections.ai platform alongside a paid enterprise tier sold to security teams.

Subscription software sold to enterprise detection and security operations teams; the community tier is offered free.

Traction

The detections.ai community reports more than 16,000 detection engineers, with 847+ joining in a single week, and tens of thousands of community detections. The site lists users at organizations including Google, Deloitte, SentinelOne, RSM US, Microsoft, Optiv, PwC, TD Bank Group, IBM, Cisco, Wynn Las Vegas and Target. At the time of its funding announcement, early design partners reported up to 10x time savings in analyzing new threats, including generative-AI-focused LLMJacking compromises.

Latest developments

The company announced general availability of detections.ai Enterprise, adding cross-SIEM coverage visibility, environment-specific tuning, scheduled AI audit routines, a private team workspace, governance and deployment back to customer SIEMs.

Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history

Market position

An early-stage, venture-backed entrant in AI-native security operations tooling; comparable companies identified include Prophet Security, Conifers.ai and Anvilogic.

Combines a large shared community library of detections with AI-assisted authoring, cross-language rule translation and MITRE ATT&CK mapping, so that rules written at one organization can be reused elsewhere, layered with enterprise coverage analytics, governance and SIEM deployment.

Technology

Purpose-built generative AI models trained on detection and security data, coupled with role-based AI agents that generate, refine and audit detection rules. Capabilities include translation across nine detection rule languages, MITRE ATT&CK and CVE coverage mapping, scheduled audit and tuning routines, and integrations that deploy detections back into customer SIEMs.

Go-to-market

Community-led adoption through a free detections.ai tier and public detection library, converting to an enterprise tier sold via demo requests. At launch the company recruited design partners and solicited inbound contact for detection creation and management engagements.

Enterprise security operations centers, detection engineering teams and managed security service providers running SIEM platforms such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel and CrowdStrike Next-Gen SIEM, plus individual detection engineers using the free community tier.

Geography

Headquartered at 720 University Ave., #105, Palo Alto, California, serving a global community of detection engineers.

History

Founded in 2023 in Palo Alto, California, System Two Security emerged publicly in December 2024 with a $7 million seed round led by Costanoa Ventures, saying it would use the funds to scale its team and accelerate product development while recruiting design partners. It subsequently launched detections.ai as a community platform for detection engineers and later added an enterprise tier offering coverage analytics, tuning, governance and SIEM deployment.

Compiled by commissioned research from 7 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Design partner time savings analyzing new threatsDec 2024Up to 10x time savings reported by early design partners
Detection rule languages supported for translationJan 20269 languages
Employee countJan 20266 employees
New detection engineers joined in the past weekJan 2026847 users
Registered detection engineers on detections.aiJan 202616,000 users
Total funding raisedDec 2024$7M

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Timeline · 2

launches, deals, and filings
Jan 2026
detections.ai Enterprise released

The company launched an enterprise tier of detections.ai providing coverage visibility across SIEMs, environment-specific detection tuning, scheduled AI auditing routines, a private team workspace, governance and deployment back into SIEMs.

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Dec 2024
System Two Security raises $7 million seed round led by Costanoa Ventures

The company announced $7 million in funding led by Costanoa Ventures, with participation from Runtime Ventures, The Hive, Webb Investment Network and individual investors. Proceeds were earmarked for scaling the team and accelerating product development.

$7M source ↗

Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

Research sources · 7

primary sources listed

7 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Systemtwosecurity do?
System Two Security builds an AI-agent platform for detection engineering, operating the detections.ai community and enterprise product.
Who are Systemtwosecurity's investors?
Systemtwosecurity's investors include The Hive.