The AI-Driven Solution Transforming Cybersecurity Infrastructure
by Gary Miliefsky Publisher and Dan K. Anderson vCISO and Writer
Reach Security is revolutionizing cybersecurity by introducing the first AI specifically designed to reprogram security infrastructures based on the unique threats and needs of an organization. In today’s world, defenders face evolving adversaries while continuously implementing new technologies to protect their environments. However, despite the advanced capabilities of security products, organizations often fail to fully utilize them, leaving significant gaps in their defenses. Reach Security addresses this challenge by integrating seamlessly with existing tools to analyze threats, understand attacker profiles, and detect vulnerabilities. More than just a detection tool, Reach Security automates ticket creation and stages configuration changes in real-time, ensuring that organizations optimize their security investments.
Dan K Anderson, a CISO and vCISO, explains: “The problem isn’t a lack of security tools; it’s that organizations are overwhelmed by the complexity and underutilizing what they already have. Reach Security offers a fresh approach by reprogramming your existing infrastructure, ensuring the tools you’ve already invested in are optimized to defend against the actual threats you face.”
In this spotlight, readers will discover why more tools aren’t necessarily the answer. As attacks continue to rise, it becomes clear that piling on more security products is ineffective. Reach Security offers an innovative approach that ensures organizations are protected against the threats they face — using the tools they already own.
Overview:
Reach Security enables organizations to automate costly and time-consuming security maturity assessments. The result is actionable, prescriptive insights that reduce business risk, quantify the value of existing security investments, and foster trust in security strategies. Unlike many cybersecurity solutions that focus solely on cloud security, Reach Security operates across the entire security estate. By interrogating each tool in the organization, it gathers data on who is being targeted and how those attacks are structured. This provides a comprehensive understanding of threats and how to address them, empowering teams to maximize their current security potential.
Reach Security’s innovation is particularly important in an era where security teams are struggling to balance the complexities of best-of-breed capabilities with comprehensive platforms. Reach tackles this issue by guiding customers toward an effective middle ground, ensuring that their existing tools are fully utilized. Unlike other Automated Security Control Assessment (ASCA) solutions, Reach goes the extra mile by combining threat intelligence with a deep understanding of the licensed security tools to provide customized recommendations that can be acted upon with native automation.
The Problem:
Cybercrime continues to escalate, and systematic reviews of thousands of enterprises, including those within the Fortune 100, highlight a significant issue: despite following cybersecurity best practices, over 70% of organizations use less than 20% of their available security capabilities. This underutilization compromises the effectiveness of their cybersecurity measures and increases organizational risk.
The challenge is twofold: security leaders struggle to fully utilize the tools they have purchased, and defenders are overwhelmed by the sheer number of capabilities they need to manage. Outdated configurations and policies open gaps that attackers can exploit. This frustration often leads to costly decisions, such as purchasing new tools that may not be necessary. Reach Security changes this paradigm by empowering teams to unlock the full potential of their existing security investments.
Root Cause Analysis:
The cybersecurity challenges organizations face today stem from the underutilization of the tools they already possess. Many companies have amassed an overwhelming number of security controls, yet attacks still succeed because these tools are not fully operationalized. Security teams are frustrated by the lack of clarity on how their tools are helping, and they are often stretched too thin to master the growing number of capabilities they oversee.
Moreover, security configurations and policies often become outdated, creating exploitable gaps. Despite the promise of comprehensive security platforms, breaches continue to increase year after year. This is where Reach Security enters the picture. By reshaping the way teams consume and maximize security, Reach empowers organizations to make the most of their existing investments.
Traditional security solutions fail to address the full scope of this problem. While many offer “better mousetraps” for detecting threats, they often lack the ability to operationalize their findings. Reach Security, on the other hand, integrates AI directly into Security Operations Centers (SOCs) to automate these processes and deliver a tailored security posture for each organization, based on real-time threat data.
Summary of Recommendations:
- Leverage Existing Tools to Prevent Breaches: Most cyber breaches could have been prevented using tools that organizations already possess. Reach Security is more than a product—it’s a shift in the way security teams approach and utilize their security controls. By addressing underutilization and mismanagement of security resources, Reach ensures that organizations make the most of their existing investments.
- Enhance Visibility and Simplify Cybersecurity: Reach Security provides unparalleled visibility into an organization’s security landscape, simplifying complex cybersecurity ecosystems. Leaders gain a comprehensive view of risks, protections, and areas for improvement, transforming security investments into effective defenses against cyber threats.
- Automate and Streamline Security Operations: Reach Security frees teams from the burdens of excessive controls and bureaucratic hurdles. Through automation, teams can streamline security management, allowing them to focus on safeguarding the organization rather than managing an overwhelming number of tools.
These points are critical for readers because optimizing existing tools, improving visibility, and ensuring effective investments are essential for empowering security teams to protect organizations against the ever-evolving cyber threat landscape.
Conclusion:
The last thing organizations need is more security controls. Most successful cyberattacks share a common thread: they could have been prevented using existing tools and capabilities. Reach Security was launched to provide a smarter, more efficient way for security leaders to assess and optimize the tools they already have. By automating continuous assessments and management of security infrastructure, Reach transforms security investments from mere expenses into valuable and effective defenses.
Reach’s unique approach to AI-driven automation is set to reshape the way security teams defend against modern cyber threats. Reach Security is the first AI-driven platform purpose-built to automate the management and enhancement of your security infrastructure, allowing organizations to maximize the value of their existing tools while improving overall protection.
Reach Security transforms security operations by integrating AI into Security Operations Centers (SOCs), enabling organizations to automate expensive and time-consuming security assessments. The platform interrogates every security tool in your environment, gathering critical data on threats, vulnerabilities, and configurations. This comprehensive analysis empowers security teams to take immediate action using the capabilities already at their disposal, automating ticket creation and staging configuration changes where necessary.
Unlike other solutions that are limited to specific environments, Reach Security works across the entire security estate, providing visibility and optimization across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid infrastructures. The platform’s unique approach combines deep knowledge of your organization’s existing tools with real-time threat intelligence, allowing it to deliver tailored recommendations and automate critical tasks that would otherwise overwhelm your team.
By leveraging AI to continuously assess and optimize your security posture, Reach ensures that your security investments yield the maximum possible return. Instead of adding more tools, Reach helps you fully utilize what you already have, reducing risk and enhancing your ability to respond to threats effectively.
Call to Action:
Reach Security redefines how organizations approach cybersecurity by focusing on maximizing the value of their existing tools. With its AI-powered automation, continuous assessments, and tailored recommendations, Reach enables organizations to reduce risk, improve efficiency, and confidently defend against emerging threats. See how Reach Security can optimize your cybersecurity posture—visit reach.security/try-reach to schedule a free demo. Twitter Handle: @ReachSecurity #AIsecurity #cyberresilience #securityautomation
About the Authors
Gary Miliefsky is the Publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine and a renowned cybersecurity expert, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker. As the founder and CEO of Cyber Defense Media Group, he has significantly influenced the cybersecurity landscape. With decades of experience, Gary is a founding member of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, a National Information Security Group member, and an active adviser to government and private sector organizations. His insights have been featured in Forbes, CNBC, and The Wall Street Journal, as well as on CNN, Fox News, ABC, NBC, and international media outlets, making him a trusted authority on advanced cyber threats and innovative defense strategies. Gary’s dedication to cybersecurity extends to educating the public, operating a scholarship program for young women in cybersecurity, and investing in and developing cutting-edge technologies to protect against evolving cyber risks.
Dan K. Anderson Bio
Winner Top Global CISO of the year 2023
Dan currently serves as a vCISO and On-Call Roving reporter for CyberDefense Magazine. BSEE, MS Computer Science, MBA Entrepreneurial focus, CISA, CRISC, CBCLA, C|EH, PCIP, and ITIL v3.
Dan’s work includes consulting premier teaching hospitals such as Stanford Medical Center, Harvard’s Boston Children’s Hospital, University of Utah Hospital, and large Integrated Delivery Networks such as Sutter Health, Catholic Healthcare West, Kaiser Permanente, Veteran’s Health Administration, Intermountain Healthcare and Banner Health.
Dan has served in positions as President, CEO, CIO, CISO, CTO, and Director, is currently CEO and Co-Founder of Mark V Security, and Cyber Advisor Board member for Graphite Health.
Dan is a USA Hockey level 5 Master Coach. Current volunteering by building the future of Cyber Security professionals through University Board work, the local hacking scene, and mentoring students, co-workers, and CISO’s. Dan lives in Littleton, Colorado linkedin.com/in/dankanderson