Elevating security, step by step — with Stairwell

I am ridiculously excited to announce my appointment as VP of Business Development at Stairwell. Under the visionary leadership of Mike Wiacek, the Stairwell team has created a revolutionary security automation solution that is quite literally redefining how we fundamentally approach detection and response at scale.

In my two-decade career in cybersecurity, Stairwell’s offering stands out as the most significant and transformative product I’ve seen in a long while. It has the potential to reshape the cybersecurity landscape radically.

My conviction in Stairwell’s potential isn’t singular. Fast Company has recognized us as one of the most innovative companies of 2023. We’re backed by an incredible lineup of partners, including Accel, Sequoia Capital, Gradient Ventures, and S32 — not to mention angel investors like Eric Schmidt and Michael Ovitz.

Let’s imagine for a moment: What if you could deploy a full compromise assessment equivalent to Mandiant’s three-week engagement for every alert you get from Crowdstrike, SentinelOne, Defender, or your SIEM?

What if, within minutes of a new cybersecurity threat report being published — on anything from supply chain attacks like 3CX or SolarWinds, to the latest ransomware variant, or a Log4j style vulnerability — you received an authoritative, automated report on your organization’s status regarding the threat? Providing either a completely “clean bill of health” — or telling you that your organization WAS impacted, and exactly where, and exactly when. Fully automated, powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning, and with absolute “ground truth.”

And what if you had a neural network at your fingertips, capable of providing accurate threat evaluation, severity assessment, and tracking of not only a specific threat but all of its variants across your enterprise?

Imagine being able to write threat informed detections in Yara and have them evaluate near instantaneously and continuously over every executable file that’s ever been in your organization.

Now, let’s stop imagining, because Stairwell makes this a reality. We’re amplifying capabilities across the board — from SOC analysts to threat hunters to incident responders — delivering the combined powers of a senior incident responder, a top-tier threat hunter, and a senior malware reverse engineer to every team member via an incredible automation solution.

Stairwell is an automation engine that turbocharges threat detection and response. We enable companies to automate the equivalent of comprehensive multi-week compromise assessments in just seconds, for every file-related alert from their endpoint tools or SIEM. We run threat-informed detections, including YARA, at scale over every executable file in your environment, covering not only present files but also all files ever present since you joined the Stairwell family.

I’m incredibly honored to join this phenomenal team and help lead the efforts to make the world a better place by enabling companies to significantly improve their ability to detect and respond to cyber threats — to make the internet a safer place to do business.