Mike Wiacek, the brains behind Stairwell and serving as its Chief Technical Officer, feature in an interview series.
Stairwell, a cutting-edge cybersecurity company founded by Mike Wiacek, offers a unique platform that sets a new standard in threat detection and response. This platform provides continuous visibility into every executable file, script, and potentially malicious file within an organization's environment, ensuring that no threat goes unnoticed.
A Data-First Approach to Threat Hunting
Stairwell's approach to threat hunting is both proactive and retrospective, differing from traditional tools like SIEMs and EDRs that focus on real-time alerts. Instead, Stairwell continuously analyses raw files across all time, enabling the detection of threats that may have gone unnoticed or been deleted, renamed, repacked, or dormant.
This data-first approach allows for proactive threat hunting before alerts, as well as retrospective investigation after breaches, providing full historical context that traditional tools often discard. The platform acts like a Network Detection and Response (NDR) system but for file analysis instead of network traffic.
Empowering Defenders with AI-Powered Insights
Stairwell's AI models provide instant reverse engineer-level insight into suspicious files, offering context-rich answers about intent, functionality, and relationships. They also offer variant-aware detection that doesn't break when adversaries repack or rename their malware. This empowers defenders to uncover stealthy or previously undetected threats and respond more effectively.
Benefits for Organizations
Organizations that benefit most from this approach are those that require deep, continuous visibility into their file and executable landscape, such as enterprises and SaaS providers with complex IT environments. Stairwell's platform reduces the time and resources needed to manage cybersecurity threats, making it especially valuable for companies wanting to enhance their security teams’ capabilities with clear and definitive threat reports.
The Next Generation of Security
Stairwell's platform is the next generation of security, using a data search approach to investigate malware in seconds, addressing the weaknesses of EDRs that rely on behavioral signatures and don't analyse the files on every device, every day. The platform helps security teams operationalize their threat intelligence by identifying devices infected with malware in seconds and making file triage trivial.
Moreover, Stairwell is well-equipped to find never before seen malware created by AI because it uses file analysis and data search techniques to investigate. The platform manages over 8 billion file sightings using Google Cloud Bigtable, demonstrating its scalability and reliability.
In summary, Stairwell's cybersecurity platform uniquely enables defenders to think like attackers by continuously collecting and analysing every executable file, script, and potentially malicious file across all time within an organization's environment, preserving even deleted, renamed, or dormant files. This data-driven approach empowers defenders with AI-powered insights, reducing the time and resources needed for threat detection and incident response, making it an invaluable tool for organizations seeking advanced threat hunting capabilities.
[1] Stairwell's approach to threat hunting
[2] Stairwell's data-first approach to cybersecurity
[3] Stairwell's benefits for organizations
[5] Stairwell's capabilities in advanced adversary environments
[1] Stairwell's approach to threat hunting leverages technology and AI to think like attackers, continuously collecting and analyzing every executable file, script, and potentially malicious file across all time within an organization's environment.
[2] Stairwell's data-first approach to cybersecurity analyzes raw files across all time, allowing for proactive threat hunting before alerts, retrospective investigation after breaches, and providing full historical context.
[3] Organizations that benefit most from Stairwell's platform are those requiring deep, continuous visibility into their file and executable landscape, such as enterprises and SaaS providers with complex IT environments.
[5] In advanced adversary environments, Stairwell's capabilities demonstrate its effectiveness against never before seen malware created by AI, due to its file analysis and data search techniques. The platform manages over 8 billion file sightings using Google Cloud Bigtable, showcasing its scalability and reliability.
