As artificial intelligence becomes part of everyday security operations, European organisations are facing a new question alongside the traditional challenge of detecting cyber threats: who controls the data, infrastructure and AI making those security decisions? Copenhagen based Sovera Security is building its cybersecurity platform around that question, combining AI driven threat detection with European data and operational sovereignty.
The company has secured €535,000, equivalent to 4 million Danish kroner, from the Danish Export and Investment Fund, EIFO. The financing will help Sovera develop its AI capabilities and infrastructure, expand its team and strengthen its commercial presence across Denmark, the Nordic region and Europe.
Building AI Native Security
Sovera describes its platform as an AI native, sovereign managed detection and response system. Rather than adding AI as another layer to conventional security operations, the company says its platform was designed around AI driven investigation and response from the beginning.
The system connects with an organisation’s existing security stack, including SIEM, endpoint detection and response, identity, cloud and network systems. It then correlates information from those sources to build a broader picture of potential attacks.
This approach is designed to reduce the problem of security teams dealing with thousands of disconnected alerts. Sovera says its technology can correlate weak signals across different systems and turn isolated alerts into a more complete incident narrative.
Keeping Data Under Control
Data sovereignty is central to Sovera’s proposition. The company argues that organisations using AI for cybersecurity need visibility not only into what the technology can do, but also where their security data is processed and which organisations control the underlying systems.
Sovera’s platform is designed so that customers can determine where their data is stored and processed. The company also supports deployment across cloud, on premises and hybrid environments, while maintaining an open architecture that is intended to avoid dependence on a single technology provider.
Sovera says its approach is particularly relevant to European organisations operating under requirements such as GDPR and NIS2, where data handling, operational resilience and governance are important considerations.
AI With Human Oversight
Although Sovera uses AI agents to automate parts of security operations, the company does not position AI as an unrestricted replacement for security professionals.
Its architecture gives AI systems limited access to the information and tools required for specific tasks. High risk decisions remain subject to human oversight, while the platform maintains auditing and permission controls around AI activity.
The company says this model allows AI to handle repetitive work such as alert correlation, enrichment and investigation, while human analysts remain involved where judgement is required.
A Different Approach to MDR
Sovera’s managed detection and response platform is designed to work with the security tools organisations already use rather than forcing them to replace their entire technology stack.
Its platform can ingest information from different security products and correlate that data across an organisation’s environment. It also supports continuous threat hunting and real time containment, with human expertise governing critical response decisions.
The company says this architecture is intended to address the growing volume and complexity of security data without requiring organisations to continually expand their security operations teams.
Scaling Across Europe
The EIFO financing will support Sovera’s next phase of development as the company expands its technology and commercial operations.
EIFO’s own case study describes the financing as supporting Sovera’s growth and speed of execution, while highlighting the company’s use of AI in its own data centre to bring together alerts from multiple security systems.
Founded by Søren Laustrup, who previously founded cybersecurity company LogPoint, Sovera is now positioning itself around a broader shift in security operations. As organisations adopt AI while facing stricter requirements around data control and resilience, the company is betting that cybersecurity platforms will need to be not only intelligent, but also transparent, controllable and deployable on the customer’s terms.
With the new financing, Sovera plans to strengthen that technology foundation and expand its presence across the European cybersecurity mark