Teleskope, the data security platform that resolves data exposure instead of just flagging it, today announced the general availability of Kosmo, a co-pilot for data security teams. Announced on October 8, 2026 in New York, Kosmo handles day-to-day work of finding and fixing data exposure, recommends what to tackle next, and builds governance plans and reports security leaders bring to HR, legal, and the board.
Kosmo works alongside security teams on both the daily work and the longer-term plan: it investigates exposure, builds remediation plans, recommends what to tackle next, and produces the reports and briefing materials that move governance decisions forward. Most security teams don't lack findings. They lack time to step back. The questions that shape a data security program, what's worth sweeping this quarter, which data owners need a conversation, how to explain exposure to an HR leader or the board, get pushed behind the daily work.
Kosmo covers both. Ask it a question in plain language and it scopes the related risk into named sets with real counts, proposes a specific action for each file, turns recurring patterns into standing policy, and builds an artifact for whoever needs to see the result, from a security engineer's working list to a briefing deck for a conversation with an HR officer. The numbers Kosmo measures are the same numbers it acts on and reports, so nothing gets re-litigated between the finding, the fix, and the explanation.
Kosmo also doesn't wait to be asked. Chatbot-style assistants answer the question in front of them. Kosmo points teams toward the next recommended action: the exposure worth sweeping first, the pattern worth turning into policy, the stakeholder who should see the numbers.
Before today's release, Kosmo ran in beta with security teams at more than a dozen customer organizations, used in their day-to-day work rather than in vendor-led demos. The work ranged from sensitive-data checks and external-exposure sweeps to retention planning and access audits. One beta customer's security team ran a single continuous Kosmo session across six days, working backward through its own archive by creation decade to surface data nobody had reviewed in years. Another built nine separate compliance reports in an afternoon, mapping the same underlying findings against PCI DSS, CIS, CCPA, NIST, and PIPEDA in turn.
Kosmo cannot execute a change autonomously by design. It has no tool that writes to a customer's environment, only tools that read, reason, and propose, a limit enforced by the system's architecture rather than by instruction or configuration. Within that boundary, Kosmo recommends the way an experienced practitioner would. It reaches for a data owner alert before anything destructive, prefers reversible actions over permanent ones, and proposes a specific action for each file rather than a single rule swept across many.
Kosmo is generally available today to all Teleskope customers. Teleskope will also walk through Kosmo, along with Risk Score and Policy Ingestion, in a public product session, "How to Turn Data Risk Into Action," on October 14, 2026.
"Every data security tool I used stopped at a dashboard, and the hardest part of the job was never the fix. It was deciding what mattered this quarter and explaining it to the people who own the data in terms they'd act on. Kosmo is the senior analyst I wish I'd had at Airbnb. It does that thinking with you, pushes you toward the next move, and stops exactly where a person needs to say yes. Security teams don't need another chatbot waiting for a question." — Elizabeth "Lizzy" Nammour, founder and CEO of Teleskope
About Teleskope
Teleskope is an agentic data security platform that automatically resolves data exposure, not just finds it. Powered by the Data Reasoning Layer, Teleskope continuously discovers sensitive data, determines the appropriate action based on each customer's policies, and enforces that action natively across on-premises, cloud, SaaS, and AI environments. Teleskope competes in the Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) categories. Customers include Ramp, Chevron Phillips, Notion, and Petco. Teleskope was founded in 2022 by Elizabeth "Lizzy" Nammour, a former Airbnb】 data security engineer, and is headquartered in New York City. The company is backed by Primary Venture Partners, M13, and Lerer Hippeau, and raised a $32M.
