Let me level with you, because our industry rarely does. 

For all the noise generated around “visibility, context, and unified security," most organizations are still operating on partial truths. Not because they want to (nobody wakes up hoping for blind spots), but because the tooling they’ve been handed for the last decade simply can’t make sense of the full environment. At least not in a way that holds up when you need it. 

Teams have identity in one pile, assets in another, privileges in a third, cloud spread across four portals, and OT buried under whatever spreadsheet the plant manager built during COVID. And everyone involved is swearing they have “the whole picture.” 

It’s not the whole picture. It’s pieces of it taped together. That’s the underlying problem, and the reason why Cyderes acquired Lucidum. Not to add a module or expand a SKU. Because you can't build the future, especially the AI-powered future, on a fractured view of your own environment. 

Agentic AI needs truth, not telemetry 

Everyone’s tossing around “AI” like it’s going to magically fix cybersecurity. It won’t. Not unless the AI understands the data it’s reasoning about. To do so, the data must be clean, unified, identity-aware, correlated against asset relationships, and grounded in real reachability and business relevance. 

AI can’t infer that from a connector. It can’t hallucinate its way into knowing who owns a service account or what the blast radius of a misconfigured entitlement really is. This was one of the major drivers of our Lucidum acquisition. Honestly, it should probably be the driver we all talk about the most. 

if you want agentic AI making decisions or assisting your team intelligently, you must give it an environment map that's accurate, not optimistic. Lucidum is the only engine we’ve seen that can deliver identity-to-asset-to-privilege truth at the fidelity needed for AI to reason safely and correctly. 

You can’t automate on top of noise. 
You can automate on top of Lucidum. 
That mattered a lot to us.

Our realized value of this acquisition is not just directed at AI or agentic security operations; it's directed at everything

Here’s the funny thing: once you fix the context, everything else suddenly works better. 

Managed Detection & Response (MDR) gets sharper because detections aren’t firing in a vacuum. Exposure Management becomes real instead of theoretical because you finally know whether something is reachable or relevant. 
Identity & Access Management (IAM) stops being a messy identity sprawl and becomes something you can actually reason about. 
Threat intel becomes precise because you know why indicators matter, and where they can create exposure, not only that they exist. 

All of this depends on having a reliable data fabric underneath. Something flexible enough to adapt to different environments, deep enough to reconcile conflicting data, and intelligent enough to understand relationships that tools historically treat as separate worlds. 

Lucidum gives us that fabric. It’s the connective layer we all talk about but never realize. 

Attackers are already three steps ahead, using AI to do the thing defenders have been begging for: map environments, follow privilege paths, chain weaknesses, test hypotheses, and pivot faster than human operators ever could. They’re already operating with a unified understanding of their target. 

Meanwhile, defenders are still manually reconciling asset lists and hoping they’re close enough. We can’t fight algorithmic attackers with incomplete maps. Lucidum closes that gap, not with theory but with actual unified environmental truth. 

This is how we give defenders their own version of what attackers already have. 
This is how we stop reacting and start anticipating. 

So why acquire Lucidum? The actual reason 

Here’s the simplest way I can say it: We acquired Lucidum because you can’t build the future of defense without an identity-centric, AI-ready fabric of truth, and nobody else had built it. And now we do. That’s it. 

Everything we’re doing next: MDR evolution, Exposure Management, IAM reinforcement, agentic automation, unified mesh architecture, all of it requires a real foundation. Lucidum is that foundation. 

Not the shiny part. 
Not the loud part. 
But the part you bet the company on. 

And that’s exactly what we’re doing.