Security software spent forty years asking people to do the work–Solstice understands your household, explains what's happening and acts on your instructions, so you don't have to
BOSTON, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Aura (ASX: AXQ), a global leader in online safety and wellbeing, today introduced Solstice, the AI engine that will power every Aura product. The first product built on it is the new Aura, in which AI agents understand a household, watch over it continuously and carry out the work of protecting it at a member's direction, whereas today's security products monitor and notify. The new Aura is available today in limited beta, with broader availability expected in early 2027.
The Goal We Set Ourselves
When Aura was founded in 2017, it set itself one goal: to build a constant, trusted protector that watches out for families online, protects them autonomously and brings people in only when it matters.
For forty years, security software asked people to do the work: run the scan, read the alert, figure out what it meant, fix it themselves. Aura set out to build the alternative, and over eight years assembled everything an intelligent system needs to see—identity, credit, bank and card activity, devices, children, data brokers, calls and texts—reaching millions of families at home, through partnerships with schools worldwide and through employer benefits.
The stakes have risen along the way. Generative AI has made scams cheaper to run and harder to spot, and cybercrime losses have reached a record $20.9 billion. Software that answers with another alert cannot keep up.
Two things remained out of reach, because the technology to build them did not exist: a mind that could learn what normal looks like for one particular family and tell a real threat from a false alarm, and hands that could act for that family across the accounts, carriers and devices where safety actually happens. Solstice is the engine that provides both.
"When we started Aura, we set ourselves the goal of building a protector that does the work for you and brings you in when it needs you," said Hari Ravichandran, Founder and CEO of Aura. "Setting the goal was the easy part. The hard part was building the intelligence to understand a family and the agents to act for it, and that took nearly a decade, our own data and our own models, including a proprietary foundation model. We named the engine Solstice for the point in the year when the light turns. This is that point for consumer security: from software that warns you to a system you can ask to take care of it."
The Solstice Engine
Solstice is an engine, not a feature. It is the foundation under every Aura product, and it has five parts.
- Data collectors. Solstice continuously gathers signals from across a family's digital life—credit bureaus, bank and card accounts, dark web and breach sources, data brokers, email, calls and texts, and the household's devices, children's included—and turns them into a single stream of events in one common language.
- A household knowledge graph. Every person, device, account and exposure in the family, and the relationships among them, held over time. The graph is Solstice's memory. It is what lets the engine learn what normal looks like for each household and connect events months apart—an exposed password, a reset attempt, a new device—into one story rather than three alerts.
- A machine learning stack. Specialized models, each trained for one job: scam emails, texts and calls, malware, unusual transactions, breach exposure and, for Aura Parents families, signs that a child may be struggling. Each writes its findings into the graph.
- A foundation model. At the center of Solstice is a foundation model Aura built and trained in-house: an 800-million-parameter neural network trained not on text but on 16 billion real, de-identified household security events. It learned how threats unfold as sequences—the leaked password, the reset attempts, the new device, then the credit pull—so a household's risk surfaces earlier, before it becomes a case.
- An action plane. A set of AI agents, each responsible for one area of a family's security—credit and identity, accounts and passwords, devices, children's safety, scams—and each able to carry out the work at a member's direction across the services where that work happens. The action plane is what turns understanding into protection.
Together, these give Aura's agents what no consumer security product has had: a complete, current understanding of the family they are protecting, and the means to act on it when the family asks.
"Most AI security products put a general-purpose language model in front of the same old alerts," said Rekha Singh, Chief Technology Officer of Aura. "Solstice is built the other way around: our own foundation model trained on what actually happens to households, a knowledge graph that gives the agents memory, and specialist models that give them depth. That is what lets the new Aura act for a family when asked instead of notifying it."
The New Aura, Built on Solstice
The new Aura has been rebuilt on Solstice around AI agents: every area of a family's protection—identity, credit, finances, devices, children and scams—is handled by an agent that monitors it, decides what matters and acts at the member's direction, where today's products monitor and notify. For the first time, a family can go from reviewing forty alerts to seeing the one that matters, and from working through a to-do list to overseeing one system that works for them.
When it is rolled out, subscribers will receive:
- Setup as a conversation. Instead of a long setup, Aura asks about the household, turns on the protections that matter most first at the subscriber's request and keeps track of what has been done.
- A daily briefing and a weekly recap. Each morning, what Aura checked overnight, what changed and whether anything needs attention. Each week, the state of the household's protection and what to do next.
- An assistant that knows the family. The assistant built into the new Aura answers questions about the family's safety, checks suspicious texts, emails and links on request with a verdict, the reasons and next steps, and takes instructions for the agents.
- Agents that do the legwork. When subscribers ask, Aura's agents take on the safety tasks that used to fall to the family: reviewing compromised passwords, placing Experian credit locks, scanning for scams, managing parental controls and requesting data broker removals, with more moving to automated background actions over time.
- The whole household. Children, parents and the relatives a family looks after, under one account, with each person's protection handled by the same agents.
The new Aura is available to select users in limited beta, with additional capabilities planned for the fourth quarter and broader availability expected in early 2027.
Home, School and Work
Solstice was built to span the places a family's digital life happens: home, school and work. Through employer benefit programs, the same engine extends to the 12 million employees Aura reaches, and to their families. Where a school and a family choose to connect them, Solstice will also bring together what Aura's school safety technology sees during the school day and what a parent sees at home, so a concern that surfaces in a classroom can be understood and acted on at home the same day.
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About Aura
Aura (ASX: AXQ) is a global leader in online safety and wellbeing. Built on the belief that people deserve a trusted, always-on layer of protection, Aura's AI-powered platform delivers protection for individuals, families, and enterprises — from proactive protection against identity theft, financial fraud and online threats to tools that help schools and parents protect children from cyberbullying, harmful content, and threats to their wellbeing.
Aura's platform spans the environments that matter most — home, school and work — empowering people of all ages with end-to-end protection for every aspect of online life. Learn more at aura.com.
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