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The inevitable follow-up question I receive after telling someone I work with artificial intelligence (AI) is some version of the question, “So, will AI take my job?” This reaction isn’t surprising. Microsoft’s 2024 Workplace Learning Report shows nearly half of workers worry AI might replace them. But this framing misses a crucial nuance about our relationship with technology: the question isn’t whether AI will replace us but how we can most effectively wield this powerful tool in our work. By addressing the misconceptions about AI replacing jobs and emphasizing the criticality of human input and oversight in AI-driven workflows, we…

Andesite’s Chief Product Officer, William MacMillan, wrote an article for Security Management magazine about the lessons on change management that he learned as the CIA CISO. “Organizational change management is inherently anxiety provoking. Focus that change management effort on cybersecurity and you’ve made a stressful, complicated task even more fraught…When you avoid the typical traps, build alignment, and act with conviction and consistency, success is possible. That was the situation I found myself in at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the early 2020s. These are the lessons drawn from that daunting but ultimately successful effort. ” “In many organizations,…

Carbaugh, a former CIA operative who was also part of the first U.S. team deployed to Afghanistan following the 9/11 attacks, was interviewed during Black Hat to talk about his perspective on some of the industry’s biggest challenges: rising AI-driven threats and a shrinking pool of skilled defenders. Reflecting about his background, he explained, “I spent so much of my time focused on counterterror direct kinetic physical threats to the United States…But you realize playing out in the background all along are those cyber threats, that are persistent, that are coming every minute of the day.” “The community here in…

Our Chief Product Officer, William MacMillan, and Lucas Moody, SVP & CISO at Alteryx, joined the crew at HatchPad’s The Pair Program to discuss a pressing issue: SOC analysts burnout. The conversation focused on how to reverse the skyrocketing burnout in SOC teams, and how AI can support rather than replace analysts. They emphasized the role of curiosity and creativity in modern cybersecurity and why junior analysts are essential to ensure a sustainable future for cyber defense. MacMillan shared insights about the shift towards an AI-driven decision-layer built to empower analysts and what is next for Human-AI collaboration in cybersecurity….

GovCast interviewed Andesite Chief Product Officer William MacMillan to talk about the role of Human-AI collaboration in national security. Artificial intelligence powers many cybersecurity applications, and government agencies are increasingly using AI to augment systems in national security and intelligence capacities. The complexities of AI implementation require careful architectural considerations and robust governance frameworks to ensure safe execution. William MacMillan, former CISO at CIA and current chief product officer at Andesite AI, noted how AI holds tremendous potential to enhance efficiency and accuracy, particularly through “human in the loop” systems that manage vast amounts of data. MacMillan also talks about…

At Andesite, we take AI security seriously. With our Safe AI Architecture™, we’ve built guardrails to protect customers’ networks and data. We use encryption at-rest, in-transit, and in-storage, and do not train our AI with customer data. That’s why it made so much sense for us to sign CSA’s AI Trustworthy Pledge, a public commitment to develop and manage AI responsibly. The Pledge emphasizes our dedication to AI safety best practices, and our alignment with the four core principles of trusted AI:  Safe and Compliant Systems: I will design, develop, deploy, operate, manage, and adopt AI systems that are safe for…

By Dave Brown, Head of Security and Compliance at Andesite Building software that is secure by design is at the heart of what we at Andesite are passionate about – it’s the core of our mission and what we pursue as a security vendor. That’s why we proudly signed the CISA Secure by Design Pledge. From foundation to general availability, and since then, we have diligently worked through the Pledge goals to build security and compliance within our product.  We have developed an internal auditing process with over 450 continuous monitoring controls that constantly validate our work against the Pledge,…

Andesite’s Chief Product Officer William MacMillan writes about how “despite massive investment in tools and technologies, many SOCs still find themselves overwhelmed by the very chaos they aim to control.” “Analysts are drowning in data, jumping between disconnected tools, and trying to make sense of endless alerts. The result? An epidemic of burnout among the talented security professionals who are critical to keeping organizations safe. “This has become particularly acute for state and local government security teams that must protect critical infrastructure and sensitive citizen data with typically smaller budgets and staff than their federal or private-sector counterparts. “Despite this challenge,…

Andesite is proud to announce that it has earned the Trusted Cloud Provider trustmark from the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). CSA is the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment. CSA harnesses the subject matter expertise of industry practitioners, associations, governments, and its corporate and individual members to offer cloud security-specific research, education, certification, events and products. CSA’s activities, knowledge and extensive network benefit the entire community impacted by cloud — from providers and customers, to governments, entrepreneurs and the assurance industry — and provide a forum…