Cybersecurity insurance company Coalition Inc. today announced that it has acquired managed detection and response startup Wirespeed Inc. for an undisclosed price.
Founded in July 2024, Wirespeed assist organizations detect and respond to cyberthreats with an automated MDR platform that reduces the time from threat detection to verdict measured in milliseconds rather than hours or days.
Wirespeed’s platform is built around a conditional logic algorithm combined with probabilistic artificial intelligence to produce consistent, repeatable threat verdicts in as little as 1.8 seconds. The speed of threat detection to verdict is key to the company’s offering, with the company emphasizing that in a threat landscape where adversaries move fast, the delay between detection and response can determine whether a breach becomes a full-blown incident.
The company emphasizes signal clarity and noise reduction, claiming the platform delivers a 99.99% reduction in alert noise by filtering out non-actionable detections and focusing on high-confidence events.
Wirespeed’s Automated MDR leverages ChatOps integrations with Slack, Microsoft Teams, email and SMS to solve challenging…
