Partner Success with AWS / Software & Internet / Sweden

November 2024
Peak Defence
Neurons Lab

Peak Defence Leverages Generative AI to Transform Cybersecurity Audits

Learn how AWS and Neurons Lab enabled automation and data-driven insights to power Peak Defence’s AI-based SaaS offering.

99.7%

decrease in audit and compliance response times

Up to 91%

faster deployment times for environments

50%

reduction in average project launch time

Overview

Peak Defence needed to scale up its processes to meet increasing demand for its cybersecurity consulting and solutions services. The company collaborated with AWS Partner Neurons Lab to automate critical security and compliance processes for customers using generative AI and added a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering to its portfolio. With help from the AI solution development experts at Neurons Lab, Peak Defence leveraged advanced, cloud-based AI tools and a scalable, serverless infrastructure to significantly improve operational efficiency. This empowers the company to handle growing demand while maintaining the strong data security measures its customers require.

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Opportunity | Meeting Growing Demand without Compromising Quality

As an organization that provides cybersecurity management and compliance consulting services, Peak Defence needed a way to meet increasing demand for its services while ensuring the highest level of security and accuracy. By freeing up time spent on manual processes such as compliance and information security management, as well as operational tasks such as responding to requests for proposal (RFPs), they would be able to focus on doing what they do best: providing their clients with cutting-edge solutions.

Secondly, Peak Defence aimed to achieve operational excellence by minimizing the costs associated with the manual execution of compliance processes. Automating manual tasks would allow the company to unlock new capacity and efficiency gains, enabling it to scale and meet client needs faster. Ultimately, targeting these two key needs would allow Peak Defence to remain highly competitive in their industry while also accelerating growth. The company saw an opportunity to incorporate generative AI into its operations to achieve these goals. It aimed to leverage AI to provide timely insights, enhance security measures, and streamline compliance, all while maintaining strict privacy standards for sensitive customer data.

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Neurons Lab helped us to add generative AI capabilities to an existing platform, evolving and unlocking new capabilities for our customers. Their experience and creativity made it efficient and enjoyable to work together. We recommend them without hesitation."

Roman Jasins
Co-Founder & Board Member of Peak Defence

Solution | Building a Scalable, AI-powered Compliance Platform

To tackle these challenges, Peak Defence enlisted Neurons Lab to build an AI-powered platform designed to automate compliance and security operations. It utilized Amazon Bedrock as the foundation to manage multiple large language models (LLMs), including Anthropic’s Claude for core AI processes. Extensive model experimentation and training were done using Amazon SageMaker, allowing the team to quickly develop prototypes.

One of the platform’s most innovative features was its ability to process large volumes of sensitive security data quickly. The platform employed a serverless architecture with AWS Lambda and AWS Step Functions to automate workflows and efficiently manage large datasets. This infrastructure enabled Peak Defence to dynamically scale operations without the need for additional infrastructure investments. Security and privacy were at the forefront of the solution, with strict controls ensuring that only authorized personnel could access sensitive data, and secure data management processes were implemented to handle increasing demand while maintaining flexibility in system scaling. By utilizing AI models, Peak Defence aimed to reduce the time required for data analysis and significantly improve decision-making processes related to security threats and compliance risks.

In terms of technical design, the system was centered around automating data processing workflows. Large datasets were efficiently fed into AI models, where each step in the process was dynamically managed and sequenced. This system ensured that relevant data was routed to the appropriate LLMs for analysis, with results passed back to the security team for action. Moreover, Peak Defence continually tested and adapted their AI models using the machine learning framework, giving them the ability to rapidly integrate new and emerging models. This provided flexibility, enabling the team to swap or chain models together for optimal performance depending on specific use cases.

Outcome | Accelerated Audits for Stronger Security

The AI-driven transformation at Peak Defence produced several impactful results. The automation platform reduced two-to-three-week audit and compliance response times down to just minutes (a 99.7 percent decrease), enabling the company to remain agile in the fast-paced cybersecurity market. Scalability was achieved without increasing the workforce, as the serverless architecture allowed the team to manage larger datasets efficiently. This led to faster, more data-driven decisions, with data analysis reduced to hours instead of days. Infrastructure deployment times were also significantly improved, with environments deployable in just 15 minutes (up to 91 percent faster), as were average project launch times (a 50 percent reduction). Additionally, the pay-as-you-go pricing model provided by AWS optimized costs, while enhanced security measures allowed Peak Defence to process sensitive information at scale and meet stringent compliance requirements.

About their engagement with Neurons Lab, Peak Defence co-founder Roman Jasins explained, “Neurons Lab helped us to add generative AI capabilities to an existing platform, evolving and unlocking new capabilities for our customers. Their experience and creativity made it efficient and enjoyable to work together. We recommend them without hesitation.” And as Peak Defence continues to grow, they are focused on further optimizing their platform by integrating new features that provide a complete, end-to-end security solution that covers people, processes, and technology, offering a one-stop shop for customers. By leveraging AWS serverless solutions, Peak Defence is focusing on sustainability, ensuring that their operations are as cost-efficient and eco-friendly as possible.

About Peak Defence

Peak Defence provides information security compliance consulting services, helping clients meet standards and frameworks like ISO 27001, NIST, and SOC2. Peak Defence’s platform streamlines the compliance process, ensuring strong cybersecurity through automation and expert knowledge.

About AWS Partner Neurons Lab

Neurons Lab is an enterprise AI consultancy that provides full-cycle AI transformation—from identifying high-impact AI applications to integrating and scaling the technology. As an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner and Generative AI Services Competency holder, the team has successfully delivered tailored AI solutions to over 100 clients, including Fortune 500 companies and governmental organizations. Capabilities include designing and implementing comprehensive data foundation layers with strong governance, access controls, and encryption – tailored to specific compliance requirements. Neurons Lab uses AWS analytics services to analyze large datasets while maintaining data integrity, confidentiality, and regulatory compliance.

AWS Services Used

Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that provides a single API to access and utilize various high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies. It offers a broad set of capabilities to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI practices.

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Amazon SageMaker

Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed machine learning service that provides tools and infrastructure to build, train, and deploy ML models at scale, including large foundation models for generative AI.

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AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda allows you to run code without provisioning or managing servers, creating workload-aware cluster scaling logic, maintaining event integrations, or managing runtimes.

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AWS Step Functions

AWS Step Functions creates visual workflows for distributed applications

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