AI in cybersecurity: Sola Security’s mission

Digital Content Editor, Eve Goode speaks with Guy Fletcher, CEO and Co-Founder of Sola Security about the evolution and use of AI in cybersecurity.

Can you tell me about Sola Security and the role it plays within the industry?

Sola is a cybersecurity AI platform that gives teams the freedom to create and orchestrate their own security needs.

The industry has been overloaded with expensive, fragmented tools that create more work than they solve.

Security teams are often stuck managing a patchwork of products that don’t talk to each other, or oversized “all-in-one” platforms that promise simplicity but end up being rigid, resource-intensive and costly.

We built Sola to change that.

Sola AI

At the core of the platform is Sola AI which enables practitioners to prompt their existing stack or create their own tailor made security tools in minutes with no engineering bottlenecks, long procurement processes or months of onboarding.

We also created the Sola App Gallery, which provides a growing library of apps built by Sola’s security team that can be used or customised to fit unique needs.

Sola’s AI also guides teams in real time by helping them write queries, configure workflows, and troubleshoot issues as they go.

How does Sola set themselves apart?

What makes Sola different is our AI-native, security-first approach.

Unlike general-purpose automation platforms with security layered on later, Sola was built from the ground up for security professionals with security baked in.

That means structured auditing, role-based access controls and real-time collaboration are built into every workflow.

Since emerging from stealth in March 2025, we’ve already seen rapid adoption with over 2,000 users and more than 1,000 custom security apps created on Sola, spanning from identity and access management to cloud posture, compliance, configuration management and more.

Our role in the industry is to cut through the chaos and put security innovation back in the hands of the people on the front lines.

What encouraged the founding of Sola Security?

Sola was born from frustration with the stagnation of cybersecurity innovation.

For too long, security teams have been left with two bad options:

1. Throw together dozens of disconnected tools that create silos
2. Buy into bloated platforms that try to be everything and end up being mediocre at best.

Both options are very expensive.

As former CISOs and security leaders, my Co-Founder and I had lived that pain ourselves and we knew there had to be a better way.

We wanted to create the platform we always wished we had.

One that makes security radically accessible, allowing practitioners to prompt their own stack for complete visibility, build and customise their own security tools and collaborate on solutions without being dependent on consultants or dedicated engineering resources.

The timing was also important with the AI revolution giving us the chance to design Sola.

This has allowed us to build a platform that doesn’t just automate existing processes but redefines how security solutions are created, deployed and adapted in real time.

As AI assistants become more common, how do you think the use of them has changed?

AI assistants have evolved from being experimental features into central components of modern workflows.

Early assistants were limited to surfacing information, generating text or automating simple tasks.

In cybersecurity, they were mostly companion features within existing products, meaning they were helpful in certain areas but limited in scope.

Today, we’re seeing a shift toward AI that plays a much larger role in all operations. In security specifically, the next leap is about moving from passive assistance to active creation.

Sola represents that shift. It’s not about surfacing alerts or generating content; but enabling security teams to actually design, build and deploy their own defences using AI.

In that sense, we see Sola less as an “assistant” and more as a full security studio, where teams have the creative control to solve problems on their own terms.

Can you explain why most AI assistants in cybersecurity fail to deliver meaningful value and how can this be fixed?

Most cybersecurity AI assistants fail because they’re built as bolt-ons. They sit inside a single vendor’s product and as a result, their scope is limited to that product’s data and functionality.

That leads to fragmented insights and insufficient value.

Gartner’s latest Hype Cycle for Security Operations called this out directly, noting that the scope of cybersecurity AI assistants is often constrained to the product they’re a part of, which diminishes their overall value.

Sola was designed to fix this problem. Sola’s AI is cross-vendor by design, it doesn’t live inside one product, it works with every element of your stack that you connect.

That means Sola can unify workflows across multiple tools, break down silos and deliver insights and automation that span the entire environment.

This unified approach eliminates the fragmentation that plagues most AI assistants and gives security teams a single place to orchestrate, adapt and scale their defences.

How can AI be used to unify, adapt and orchestrate security workflows at scale?

Security has been stuck in the slow lane for too long. The AI revolution is the perfect time for that to finally change.

With the right building blocks, it doesn’t just automate, it adapts, orchestrates and actually reasons about security challenges.

Instead of spending weeks gluing systems together or chasing alerts, teams can build what they need in minutes, with workflows that adjust as threats and environments change.

At Sola Security, we see AI as the connective tissue across the stack, turning security from something brittle and reactive into something fast, flexible and proactive

How is Sola Security expected to evolve in the next five years?

With the advancement in AI coming at a truly unbelievable pace, I think we probably can’t even imagine where we will be five years from now.

Up until now, Cybersecurity hasn’t really kept pace with the rest of tech. Canva reimagined design, Stripe reimagined payments and security is still weighed down by bloated stacks and projects that take quarters to deliver.

We’re building Sola to change that. I hope that five years from now, Sola will be the go-to platform for building and adapting security solutions for any team of any size.