Blog and Media
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The Art of Intelligence
Former CIA Officers Brian Carbaugh (Andesite’s CEO and co-founder), Dawn Meyerriecks, and Michael Morell partner with MasterClass to teach declassified techniques on how to assess risk, strengthen relationships, and get ahead in life and business. Skills so good, they’ve been kept secret, until now. What you’re about to read is not for civilians’ eyes. Until…
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Microsoft-CrowdStrike’s Outage Heralds ‘Increased Vulnerabilities’ Period
A massive system outage disrupted systems around the world, grounding flights, disrupting health care, transport and logistics, banking services and critical infrastructure. The issue hit computers running Microsoft Windows operating system and CrowdStrike software. “CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts,” the company…
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How the CrowdStrike outage carved out new opportunities for hackers
On Nextgov/FCW, former U.S. officials and security practitioners are wondering how a defective CrowdStrike patch for Windows systems fell through the cracks and created more cascading security risks. CrowdStrike will likely survive and move forward, but, reputationally, it can’t afford another incident like this, said William MacMillan, a former CISO at the CIA. “The update…
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Venture Beat: CrowdStrike’s IT outage makes it clear why cyber resilience matters
A misconfigured content update released by CrowdStrike late on Thursday inadvertently triggered worldwide outages across Microsoft Windows systems, taking many of the world’s most essential services offline. CrowdStrike was attempting to update content that their Falcon Sensor uses to perform real-time threat detection and endpoint protection by monitoring system activities that identify suspicious behavior to prevent cyber…
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Start-Ups: 10 Tips for Navigating the Headwinds Against High-Growth
If the last two years have taught our industry anything, it’s time to retire to “cybersecurity is recession-proof” colloquialism. Not only have vendors seen cuts and challenges that they didn’t even face in the 2000 and 2008 downturns – but even internal security teams and budgets have been reduced, and defenders have fewer resources against…
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Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of April 12; Andesite AI, Hexnode, DoControl, and More
Andesite AI, a McLean, VA-based company dedicated to delivering technology to overburdened cybersecurity teams, emerged from stealth with $15.25m in initial funding. Co-developed by Red Cell Partners and General Catalyst, and led by CEO Brian Carbaugh, Andesite has built an advanced AI security analytics platform to “empower both private- and public-sector cyber analysts to defend…
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Andesite AI secures $15.25m to bolster cybersecurity with advanced AI analytics
Andesite AI, a McLean, VA-based firm, emerged from stealth mode with a substantial $15.25m in initial funding. According to FINSMES, the company is dedicated to enhancing the capabilities of cybersecurity teams overwhelmed by sophisticated threats. The funding round was co-led by Red Cell Partners and General Catalyst, marking a robust start for Andesite AI under the…
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Red Cell Partners and General Catalyst Co-Develop Andesite to Advance Cybersecurity for Analysts
MCLEAN, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Red Cell Partners and General Catalyst today announced the public launch of Andesite AI (“Andesite”), a cybersecurity company dedicated to delivering cutting-edge technology to overburdened cybersecurity teams. By leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), Andesite analyzes decentralized data sets at scale to help cyber defenders and analysts more quickly surface threats and vulnerabilities, prioritize and…
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Meet Andesite AI: An Advanced AI Security Analytics Startup that Empowers both Private- and Public-Sector Cyber Experts
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform cyber defense. One of the biggest challenges in this field is the increasing sophistication of cyber threats. The sheer volume of data that security analysts have to process makes it difficult for them to identify the most pressing dangers. Additionally, cybercriminals are continually developing new strategies, using…