Since it’s not a matter of if, but when a cyber attack will strike in today’s expanding digital landscape, threat intelligence is needed for enhanced incident response and proactive defense by reducing the attack surface.

By transforming threat intelligence into validated protections through artificial intelligence, Prelude Research Inc. goes a notch higher by automatically generating missing detection and prevention capabilities through one-of-a-kind integrations with top defensive controls, such as CrowdStrike Inc., according to Spencer Thompson (pictured), co-founder and chief executive officer of Prelude. 

Prelude’s CEO Spencer Thompson talks to theCUBE about the need for advanced threat intelligence.

“One very enduring theme for us is actually making threat intelligence actionable,” Thompson stated. “If you go all the way back to the beginning of CrowdStrike, like the first two and a half years, they actually were not selling next-gen AV or EDR at the time. It was literally just threat intelligence. We spend a lot of our time applying AI to that. I think people are sick and tired of the 100 tools that they have to tune, tweak and maintain, they just want us to reduce friction over and over again.”

Thompson spoke with theCUBE Research’s Rebecca Knight and Dave Vellante at Fal.Con, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how Prelude advances threat intelligence. (* Disclosure below.)

Prelude’s transformative threat intelligence vision

Prelude intends to take threat intelligence to the next level by 2025 through automated protection in under a minute. This will be attained through robust, high-quality and continuous security testing, according to Thompson.

“I would love to be able to say that we can take any threat that has happened in the past or potentially will happen in the future and automate every single step of telling you if you’re protected against that in under a minute,” he added. 

As one of the leading threat exposure management platforms, Prelude’s primary objective is validating cybersecurity controls and running advanced simulations. As a result, the company takes threat intelligence a notch higher by authenticating new defensive capabilities, Thompson pointed out. 

“We do it in two ways,” he stated. “One is we validate your controls are working, making sure if you pay for wonderful tools like CrowdStrike, you’re getting the most out of it. The second is we run advanced simulations up that attack against your infrastructure. We literally mimic the behaviors and signatures of that attack. We can tell you with 100% certainty that you’re actually going to be protected against an attack or not.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Research’s coverage of Fal.Con: 

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

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