Innovation that gives you Cyber Confidence with the click of a button.

Research is the foundation of Exalens. By unifying innovative data science, frontier cybersecurity expertise, and engineering, we are bridging the proactive cybersecurity monitoring gap and democratising cyber confidence for everyone with the click of a button. It's what sets us apart and makes our technology revolutionary.
- Dr Ryan Heartfield, CEO

Our Background

Over the past 20 years, Exalens' people have developed state-of-the-art cybersecurity technologies that have protected everything from Defence, Industrial, Healthcare, to Transport, Energy and Maritime operations. With a combined 100 years experience across cybersecurity, system engineering and AI, at Exalens we are pioneering in democratising cybersecurity for everyone.

18+

UK/EU R&D projects

We have delivered ground-breaking cybersecurity innovation for industries undergoing significant digital transformation such as manufacturing, energy, maritime, transport, smart cities, healthcare, and more.

67%

PhDs and Masters

Our team includes experts with PhDs and Masters in disciplines spanning Data Science, AI, Mathematics, Engineering and Cybersecurity.

300+

Published Research Articles

The people of Exalens have published over 300 research articles on advances in AI for Cybersecurity, Anomaly Detection, Information Trustworthiness, Human-Machine Teaming, Industrial and Robotic Security, and other areas.

Our R&D Partners comprise of some of Industry’s and Academia’s foremost technology pioneers and innovators

Research Summary

Self-configuring classification of discrete process variables states

Accurately classifying and tracking discrete time-series process states from one or more process variables (e.g., input/output sensors, actuators, etc) is a key data modelling challenge that addresses many critical use cases in Industrial and Manufacturing monitoring operations. Common use cases include identifying causal relationships between process variables to understand dependencies in an automated production line, or detecting when vibration sensors exhibit different behavioural patterns that indicate an early warning of component failure. The challenge can be formulated as a multidimensional time-series clustering task for univariate or multivariate time-series data, accounting for arbitrary sampling volume and rates, process states that emerge as complex time-dependent shapes in continuous process variables (e.g., sensor value as a univariate dataset) or mixed continuous and stateful process variables (e.g., sensor and actuator/program counter as a multivariate dataset), and state classification latency. By employing a novel temporal multidimensional feature matrix, a composite of time-orientated shapes may be provided as input to fit an unsupervised "state learner" model operating in Euclidean space. Combined with an optimiser for automatic determination of classification window and robust state identification, the unsupervised state learner model may be used to train a supervised time series classification model on univariate or multivariate process variables with highly scalable and accurate state classification in sub-millisecond latency.

Researcher
Dr Ryan Heartfield
Researcher

Impact-Aware Response

Autonomous incident response workflows that continuously assess and connect cyber and physical incidents while measuring and tracking risk to provide impact-aware recommendations for response Exalens combines multiple AI approaches to autonomously link and classify correlated cyber, physical, and cyber-physical incidents.

Researcher
Dr. Ryan Heartfield, Sadaiyandi Ramadoss
Researcher

Predictive Condition Monitoring

Real-time, adaptive monitoring for physical machine and process anomalies that require no human intervention or understanding of underlying data Securely reads and upcycles physical machine data from existing OT systems, IoT platforms, devices, and sensors. An anomaly detection engine that self-configures and calibrates its behavioural analysis to best fit any physical machine and process, regardless of data type, frequency, or context.

Researcher
Dr. Ryan Heartfield, Sadaiyandi Ramadoss
Researcher

Sequential Analysis

A detection approach that intelligently replicates human analysis strategies and processes. Combines heuristics, and statistical analysis with state-of-the-art AI methods such as deep learning, and unsupervised and supervised ML, to detect cyber and physical system threats with high efficacy.Provides explainable detection indicators in natural language that supports easy interpretation and actionability for both IT and OT teams.

Researcher
Dr. Ryan Heartfield, Sadaiyandi Ramadoss
Researcher

Dynamic Structural and Lexical embeddings for AGD Detection

Applying Deep Natural Language learning to classify domains names similar to those used malware command and control channels

Researcher
Dr Pankhuri Jain, Dr. Ryan Heartfield
Researcher