Everything inside your perimeter
It is installed on the organization's servers. No data leaves it and it does not depend on cloud services.
Cortex · a technology by UMA Consulting
Cortex learns what normal looks like and flags what doesn't fit.
Cortex is a family of products installed in your organization's own data center. Cortex Shield scores every card purchase and answers approve, review or decline, with its reasons. Cortex Anomaly watches your servers' logs and alerts when something falls outside the normal.
- On-premise
- Every decision explained
- No GPU
Cortex products
Fraud prevention
Cortex Shield
Scores every card authorization in milliseconds and returns the decision with its reasons, for the authorizer and for the analyst.
Discover Shield →Observability
Cortex Anomaly
Lightweight agents that learn what a healthy day looks like on each server and alert when something that doesn't fit shows up.
Discover Anomaly →Demo
Cortex in five minutes
Anomaly and Shield running in a lab, with simulated failures and made-up purchases. The numbers on screen are that lab's readings, not promised figures.
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Technology
Hyperdimensional computing, on standard processors
Cortex represents each purchase and each log line as a vector. Comparing two vectors or adding a new one to a memory are simple operations that run on any CPU, with no GPU.
That makes it possible to keep a memory per card and per server that is updated with every event, instead of waiting for the next retraining. In Shield, that memory is one of the layers: the final decision combines rules, velocity, habits and the supervised model, and each one leaves its reason in writing.
- Continuous learning, purchase by purchase
- No graphics accelerators or cloud services
- Every decision arrives with the reasons that support it
Security
Designed to pass the security team's review
The controls a demanding security team asks for, built into the product by design rather than bolted on.
Keys under custody
Encryption at rest with the keys in a dedicated vault, designed to rely on the organization's HSM.
Tailored roles
The organization builds its own roles from 40 permissions in 16 sections, with least privilege and segregation of duties.
Audit log
Every change is recorded with who made it, what changed and when.
Configurable retention
The organization decides how long each type of data is kept, according to its policy and its regulation.
Encrypted communication
TLS with certificates issued by the organization's own certificate authority. Console sessions close on their own after inactivity.
Deployment
Installed where your data lives
In your data center
Containers that run without administrator privileges on enterprise Linux, with a package that installs without internet access.
Direct integration
For Shield, an API that receives JSON with the ISO 8583 fields the switch already handles. For Anomaly, one agent per service.
One console for everything
Fraud analysts, operations and administrators work in the same web console, each with what their role allows.
Who it is for
- Banks and card issuers
- Processors and transaction switches
- Credit unions and finance companies
- Any organization with critical servers to watch
Frequently asked questions
What people usually ask
Does data leave the organization?
No. Everything runs on the organization's servers. In Shield, the card number is also replaced by a token as soon as it arrives.
What does it take to connect it?
For Shield, the switch sends each authorization as JSON with the ISO 8583 fields. For Anomaly, install an agent on each server you want to watch and train it on logs from a normal period.
Does it need special hardware?
No. It runs on standard processors, with no GPU, on enterprise Linux.
Who is behind it
Cortex is a technology by UMA Consulting
UMA Consulting is a Peruvian consulting, technology and innovation firm, with more than nine years developing software, artificial intelligence, infrastructure and cybersecurity for banking and financial services, mining and energy, telecommunications, education and the public sector.
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