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Why Kona

Govern automation across your security stack.

Kona is the runtime your team would otherwise build internally. Connect your existing systems, let engineers build automation in any language, and share the results with other teams through SSO, fine-grained RBAC and full audit trails; without a year of platform work first.
Kona platform architectureFlow: your infrastructure (firewalls, SIEM, ITSM, identity, cloud) connects through the Integrations gateway into the Kona runtime (Automations, Reports, Visualizations, Governance), then reaches consumers (security teams, network engineers, compliance, auditors, infrastructure teams) via the REST API or Web UI.YOUR INFRASTRUCTURECONSUMERSTHE KONA PLATFORMFirewallSIEMITSMIdentityCloud / ProxyIntegrationsAutomationsReportsVisualizationsGovernanceREST APIWeb UISecurity TeamNetwork EngineersComplianceAuditorsInfra. Teams

Automations run inside Kona on data from across your infrastructure, producing reports, visualisations, APIs and UIs governed end to end.

Positioning

Some platforms automate. Some manage policy. Kona builds on top of both.

Not a firewall policy manager.

Tools like Tufin, AlgoSec and FireMon focus on policy across firewalls. Kona connects to those tools and to everything else in your environment, so your team can build automation that spans them.

Not a SOAR.

SOAR platforms run incident response playbooks against security events. Kona is a development and runtime platform for any security automation: change workflows, recertification, custom dashboards, internal reporting tools.

The platform you'd otherwise build.

Teams that try to build a governed automation platform in-house typically spend a year or more on infrastructure before delivering business value. Kona is that infrastructure, ready to use.

The platform model

You write the business logic. The platform attaches the rest.

Anything you deploy on Kona — a script, a service, a dashboard — automatically inherits identity, permissions, audit, surfaces and tenant scoping from the platform. None of it has to be built per tool.

You write
Business logic

A Python script that queries your firewalls. A Go service that reconciles config. A TypeScript dashboard. Any language, any shape.

Kona attaches
Everything else

Identity, permissions, audit, surfaces, tenant scoping and secrets — inherited automatically the moment you deploy.

What every automation inherits, on day one
SSO login & session

Users sign in once through your IdP. Sessions, refresh and logout are handled by the platform.

You don't build login.
Permission & rate-limit checks

Fine-grained RBAC and per-user, per-endpoint rate limits enforced at the platform edge — before a request ever reaches your code.

You don't build RBAC or rate limiting.
Audit & threat protection

Every UI click and API call is logged with full context. CSRF, XSS and injection protection follow OWASP defaults.

You don't build logging or hardening.
Web, REST and AI surfaces

Define your logic once. Kona exposes it as a UI, a REST endpoint with auto-generated OpenAPI docs and an interactive editor, and to AI agents.

You don't build APIs, docs or UI shells.
Multi-tenant scoping

Users belong to one or many tenants. Data, branding and roles are scoped per tenant by the platform.

You don't build isolation.
Prebuilt UI components

Enterprise-grade tables, forms, config editors and tenant-aware theming. Drop them into your app or skip the UI entirely.

You don't build the UI shell.
Product tour

What it actually looks like.

kona.internal / sign-in
Login — Sign in with SSO or local accounts.
API Documentation — Auto-generated OpenAPI reference. Endpoints are executable from the browser, permissions and rate limits are documented.
Violation Heat Map — Example tool built on Kona. Matrix of policy violations from one zone to another.
Unified Rule Viewer — Example tool built on Kona. Firewall rules across vendors and sites in one view.
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LoginSign in with SSO or local accounts.
Security & deployment

Self-hosted. Hardened.
Under your control.

Kona runs entirely inside your environment: on-premises or in your cloud tenant; fully air-gapped. Every request that crosses the platform is authenticated, authorised, and logged. The end systems behind Kona are never exposed directly.

On-premises, private cloud and air-gapped. Container-based deployment on Docker or Kubernetes. Your data residency, your operational standards, your existing disaster-recovery model. The licence applies across all your environments (development, staging, production), without paying twice for the same users.

SSO, fine-grained RBAC, multi-tenancy and audit are properties of the platform, not features you configure per tool. Every automation, report, dashboard or API built on Kona inherits them automatically. A colleague gets read-only policy access. An infrastructure team consumes an API. A compliance officer runs a report. Each sees exactly what they are authorised to see, and every action is recorded.

Workloads execute in isolated, containerised environments inside the platform's security perimeter — not on engineers' workstations. Credentials to firewalls, proxies and other infrastructure are stored centrally and injected at runtime; they are never embedded in scripts. Dependencies are managed through a multi-level supply-chain mitigation strategy: vulnerability scanning, pinning, review gates, controlled update cycles.

Kona runs on the signed images you hold, with no telemetry or third-party runtime calls. Standard deployments validate entitlement through a licence service; air-gapped environments operate under a separate agreement covering image custody. Source escrow arrangements are available on request for customers whose procurement process requires them.

Authenticated · Authorised · Logged · Self-hosted · Air-gapped capable

Build vs Buy

Building in-house: the scope is usually larger than it looks.

It starts with an HTML table. Then a dashboard, authentication, audit logging, API management, multi-tenancy. Platform work quickly outweighs the security work it supports. Kona is that foundation, ready to use.

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Built on Kona
Freed-up resources for business logic

Platform effort stays minimal — just setup and routine updates. Engineering time goes into shipping security applications, and a steady stream of tools, dashboards and automations reaches the teams that need them.

Built in-house
Extensive & disproportionate platform work

Most of the timeline goes into building and maintaining the platform itself. Once the compliance audit lands, SSO, RBAC, audit trails and multi-tenancy have to be retrofitted on top — leaving almost no room for security work.

Hidden costs of building in-house
Knowledge walks out the door
When key engineers leave, in-house platforms leave behind orphaned scripts, undocumented integrations and lost context. A governed platform keeps the code, the access model and the audit trail intact.
Wrong team for the job
Network security teams are hired to secure networks, not to engineer enterprise platforms. Building SSO, RBAC, multi-tenancy and supply-chain controls properly is a different discipline — and rarely the team's main benefit.
Pricing & packaging

The pricing model, at a glance.

A base licence covers the full platform, professional services, and a starting number of users and tenants — across every deployment you run.

Beyond the base licence, you scale on
Users
Per seat
Tenants
Per tenant
Included in every base licence
Full platform
Every feature, no tiers or modules.
All deployments
Staging and production: same users, no double billing.
Professional services
A set number of hours for install, IdP integration and training.
Included allocation
A starting number of users and tenants.
Not included in the base licence
Vendor integration blueprints
AI integration skills developed for the vendors in your environment.

See what teams build on Kona.

Explore real use cases — from policy recertification to cross-system orchestration.