Announcing Wirespeed

Hello World! This is Wirespeed. A ~~different~~ new approach to Managed Detection & Response (MDR).

#Wirespeed?

Yes! The speed at which compute runs. There is no lag from humans. No intentional cost-savings latency. No network traffic congestion. No ingestion licensing limits. No legacy technology that needs mollycoddled so it doesn’t tip over. We are built for scale, using the latest tech stacks, and a clean sheet of paper approach to solving problems that have been staring all of us in the face for years, because adversaries are faster than ever and we want you to stay ahead.

#Quality

But none of that speed matters if the results are poor quality, non-deterministically random from human error or LLM hallucinations, or so opaque to you that you cannot trust them. Just like your high school algebra teacher required you to show all of the steps to your work, we show all of the steps to ours. We’re also bringing some novel quality engineering management processes from other industries to cybersecurity for the first time, and once we show the world, we expect copycats to line up, because it’s something cybersecurity should have been doing for years.

Another big aspect of quality is completeness. Today, there are classes of alerts that are infeasible to investigate at scale, so the industry mostly ignores them. These alerts require talking to humans, asking questions, and interviewing your user base in order to acquire enough context to make a decision, but nobody has time for that. Besides, most people in cybersecurity are introverts and chose this career path so we wouldn’t have to do that.

#We are also a bit contrarian.

We’ve been doing cybersecurity a looooong time. We’ve seen it all, so we see the world differently. We’re tired of the buzzword-heavy, over-hyped, often technically inaccurate, “us too” marketing that has plagued cybersecurity for 25 years. We, too, have been customers, enterprise defenders, wearers-of-many-hats, at small startups all the way to the world’s largest company with 2.5 million employees. We’ll call out what we see that is wrong in the industry or should be done better, but we are here to bring everyone up, not push anyone down. One of our pet peeves is ambulance chasing, victim shaming, and Monday Morning Quarterbacking the cyber defenders at organizations whose breaches end up in the news. That’s not us.

EDR, MDR, XDR, CDR, IDR (or is it ITDR?) … all the *DRs (we pronounce that “star D. R.” for the record), SIEM, SOAR, MSP, MSSP, MTTD, MTTR, MITRE … argh! It doesn’t have to be this complicated!

We believe the gray is just black and white pixels that are zoomed so far out they look that way. Cybersecurity is actually quite simple, once you zoom in and boil it down. (Run the opposite direction of anyone who disagrees!) The problem is the pallette of black and white pixels is expanding, not that security grows fundamentally more complicated over time.

#We care about results.

You do, too. We know that if we provide you the outcomes you’re looking for, and can prove to you that our solutions work consistently and transparently, then you won’t care how we do it or if there’s buzzwordy AI tech in it or not. In fact, we think you’re like us and already sick of hearing about AI nonstop, and you’ve been subconsciously counting the number of times you’ve read it in this post. (Your count should be at 3 and none of them were of the “snakeoil meets used car salesman” variety.) You have a job to do, like us. You just want your partners like us to be effective and efficient. We do, too.

#We also deeply care about costs.

We’re not doing this to launch a gajillion dollar business. We want to disrupt, or rather: we want to be a catalyst for the inevitable changes we see on the distant horizon. We want them to come faster, and we want the changes to be ushered in correctly by technologists who understand and care about the problems. And we want them to be accessible and affordable. McKinsey says cybersecurity is a $2 Trillion(!!) industry; yet we still have breach after breach. We spend more and accept failure. We want that cycle to end, and we recognize it’s both a technology and a people problem.

#What we’re not…

We’re not AI people who have never worked thankless roles in a SOC. (Your “AI reference count” should now increment to 4.)
We’re not cybersecurity product people who don’t understand how software can be hacked, how companies actually get breached, or how malware is written.
We’re not defensive people that have never planned and executed a breach operation against a well-defended and well-funded, top tier enterprise. We’re not guessing how adversaries work; we’ve been the adversary ourselves many times.
We’re not going to throw ridiculous parties, put our logo on F1 cars, sponsor sports teams, or shoot celebrity advertisement videos. (Not that we can afford to do that today, anyway.) We are laser focused on making you the best in the world at detection and response, and ALL of those distractions are counter to our mission of bringing you the best possible prices.

We have done it all. Offense. Defense. Small startup. Medium enterprise. Ginormous scale. Now we want to share our approach with you - and you can even start with a free trial to run us head to head and see how much faster and better we are.

#If this sounds refreshing to you…

(It’s exhilarating to us - we live for solving these problems!)

… Then launch a free trial, sign up to our newsletter, and join our movement to make MDR better on LinkedIn and Twitter/X.

SEMPER AVANTI (always onward)

-Tim, CEO & Co-Founder