COGNNA Secures Investment From Wa’ed Ventures

Saudi cybersecurity company COGNNA has received investment from Wa’ed Ventures to support its expansion and further develop its AI-powered security operations offering. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Founded in 2022, COGNNA provides managed detection and response services through Nexus, its agentic AI security operations platform. The company says Nexus connects security tools across Microsoft Defender XDR and Sentinel, Google SecOps, SIEM, endpoint detection and response, cloud systems and operational technology environments through more than 300 integrations.

The platform combines automated alert triage with investigation and response led by COGNNA’s security experts. The company also offers compliance and governance services, risk and compliance support, security assessments, advisory services and incident response.

COGNNA says it is licensed by Saudi Arabia’s National Cybersecurity Authority and certified by the Saudi Data and AI Authority, with a focus on serving organisations across the GCC and other markets.