Threat Intelligence: Prelude Transforms Cybersecurity with AI

Since it is not a question of if, but rather when a cyberattack will occur in today’s expanding digital landscape, threat intelligence is necessary to improve incident response and proactive defense by reducing the attack surface.

By turning threat intelligence into validated protections using artificial intelligence, Prelude Research Inc. goes one step further by automatically generating missing detection and prevention capabilities through unique integrations with best-in-class defensive controls, such as CrowdStrike Inc., according to Spencer Thompson (photo), co-founder and CEO of Prelude.

Spencer Thompson, CEO of Prelude, speaks with theCUBE about the need for advanced threat intelligence.

“One of the themes we care about is making threat intelligence actionable,” Thompson said. “If you go back to the beginning of CrowdStrike, like the first two and a half years, they weren’t selling next-gen AVs or EDRs at the time. It was literally threat intelligence. We spend a lot of time applying AI to this. I think people are tired of the 100 tools they have to tune and tweak and maintain, they just want us to reduce the friction again and again.

Thompson spoke with CUBE Research Rebecca Chevalier And Dave Vellante has Falconduring an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s live streaming studio. They discussed how Prelude advances threat intelligence. (*Disclosure below.)

Prelude’s Transformative Threat Intelligence Vision

Prelude aims to take threat intelligence to the next level by 2025 with automated protection in less than a minute. This objective will be achieved thanks to robust, high quality and continuous security testingaccording to Thompson.

“I wish I could say we can take on any threat that has happened in the past or might happen in the future and automate every step to tell you if you are protected against it in less than a minute” , he said. added.

As one of the leading threat exposure management platforms, Prelude’s primary purpose is to validate cybersecurity controls and run advanced simulations. As a result, the company is taking threat intelligence a step further by authenticating new defensive capabilities, Thompson noted.

“We do it in two ways,” he said. “The first is that we validate how your controls work, making sure that if you’re paying for wonderful tools like CrowdStrike, you’re getting the most out of them. The second is that we perform advanced simulations for this attack on your infrastructure. We literally mimic the behaviors and signatures of this attack. We can tell you with 100% certainty whether you will actually be protected against an attack or not.

Here’s the full video interview, part of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE Research’s coverage on Falcon:

(*Disclosure: Prelude Research Inc. sponsored this segment of the CUBE.)

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