Blog and Media
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Andesite Raises Additional $23 Million and Announces General Availability of the Bionic SOC
MCLEAN, Va., Feb. 11, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Andesite AI (Andesite) today announced the General Availability of the bionic Security Operations Center (SOC), its human-AI collaboration product empowering cyber defense teams. Additionally, Andesite revealed that it secured an additional $23 million in capital as a second tranche of seed funding from General Catalyst and Red…
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Analyst Burnout Is an Advanced Persistent Threat
On Dark Reading, Andesite’s Chief Product Officer William MacMillan writes about how for too long, cybersecurity analysts have been treated as mere cogs in a machine and it’s time to change that and revolutionize security operations. “In the battle against cyber threats, we’re losing our most vital asset: our people. While the industry fixates on…
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A Framework for Human-AI Partnership in the SOC
Andesite’s Chief Product Officer William MacMillan argues on SC Media that so far the attempts to automate the Security Operations Center (SOC) have failed. Almost 20 years since the rise of the SIEM, and 10 years after SOAR platforms first hit the market, SOCs are still struggling. Analysts are drowning in an “everywhere data” environment,…
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The Importance of Team Culture in Startups, with Andesite’s CEO and co-founder Brian Carbaugh
In this conversation, Brian Carbaugh, CEO and co-founder of Andesite, shares his unique journey from the CIA (and beore that the Marines!) to the world of cybersecurity. He discusses the challenges and rewards of being a founder, the importance of setting a positive tone for the team, and the necessity of resilience in a startup…
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On CISO Perspectives, Andesite’s CPO William MacMillan discusses the state of security automation
Rick Howard, N2K CyberWire’s Chief Analyst and Senior Fellow, turns over hosting duties of his podcast, CISO Perspectives, to William MacMillan, the Chief Product Officer at Andesite, to discuss the Cybersecurity First Principle of automation: current state and what happens now with AI as it applies to SOC Operations.
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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…