TACANS - a cybersecurity engineering firm, part of the Entravel Group - has launched an autonomous cybersecurity platform that protects travel companies against AI-driven attacks.
The company, founded by Mathias and Markus Lundoe Nielsen, has created this platform that launches swarm agent attacks, in which coordinated AI agents perform reconnaissance and chain attacks together to find vulnerabilities across booking and payment systems, whether they run on new or legacy technology, though many still remain on legacy systems.
Each attack is said to simulate a controlled environment, and the platform then remaps the client’s software to close each point of vulnerability.
“The foundations of many travel industry tech stacks are more than 40 years old. They still work as day-to-day booking engines, but they were not built for today’s sophisticated threats,” said Mathias Lundoe Nielsen, co-founder and CEO of TACANS.
“Our focus is the travel industry, and that is why we built TACANS: to give our clients safe, robust systems with the highest levels of security. No one else is doing this the way we are in travel.”
The firm, made up of a team of travel operators and expert cybersecurity engineers with backgrounds in military cyber operations, also covers malware and social engineering.
It runs simulated malware and social engineering attacks to test how a client’s systems and staff hold up, and pairs them with malware defense and proactive defense AI.
Attack testing shows travel companies where they are exposed, but it cannot stop an attack that is already underway.
Proactive defense AI closes that gap, guarding systems while weaknesses are being fixed and against new threats that appear between tests.
Combining offense and defense in one total solution means clients are not left exposed between finding a weakness and closing it.
Mathias Lundoe Nielsen added: “The system works like an audit of your travel tech stack. Our clients often do not know where an attack could start, so we review every entry point.
“Modern attackers operate at machine speed, so your testing should too. That is why we built TACANS: to find and fix weaknesses before a bad actor gets in.”
