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SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Stairwell, a cyber resilience company and provider of AI-powered threat detection and incident response solutions, today announced the appointment of John Yun as Vice President of Marketing. Yun will spearhead the company's marketing strategy and amplify Stairwell's presence."Enterprises continue to find themselves reacting to cyber threats and struggling to get ahead," said Mike Wiacek, founder and CEO of Stairwell. "Our goal is to enable enterprises to be cyber resilient before, during, and after cyber attacks - continually strengthening their cyber defenses. John will play a pivotal role in evangelizing the values provided by Stairwell as we continue our growth trajectory."Stairwell's evasion-resistant architecture allows enterprises to swiftly detect cyber attacks that evade other security solutions. The platform offers unparalleled insights into malware and its variants, including previously removed threats. With AI-powered real-time analytics, Stairwell applies advanced detection techniques to an organization's empirical data at scale, providing comprehensive operationalized threat intelligence."What drew me to Stairwell is its innovative approach to threat detection and incident response," said Yun

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Stairwell, a leading cybersecurity company that is redefining how organizations approach threat detection and response, today announced that the Stairwell platform is now available on Google Cloud Marketplace."This milestone reflects our unwavering dedication to meeting businesses where they are in order to better protect them from evolving cyber threats," said Mike Wiacek, CEO of Stairwell. "By strengthening our relationship with Google Cloud, we are leveraging the industry-leading infrastructure and expertise that Google offers, allowing us to enhance our offering and extend Stairwell's availability to a broader audience."The Stairwell platform is a cybersecurity solution that enables organizations to automate crucial parts of security operations, incident response, and threat hunting processes. By ingesting every executable or executable-like file in an organization's environment and storing it within a private, Google Cloud-based data lake, the Stairwell platform is able to perform advanced AI- and ML-supported analysis at the binary level – providing continuous and retroactive threat detection and response capabilities to its customers.Stairwell's automation addresses a significant gap in modern security tooling and empowers organizations to stay ahead of evolving threats, detect unknown attacks, and secure their supply chain while increasing team efficiency and reducing overall risk."We are thrilled to bring the Stairwell platform to the Google Cloud Marketplace, further enabling organizations to get ahead of attackers," says Eric Foster, VP of Business Development. "This allows us to help the GCP community cost effectively address key information security challenges and empower businesses to address the evolving cybersecurity landscape with our revolutionary solution for comprehensive threat detection and response."Google Cloud Marketplace lets users quickly deploy functional software packages that run on Google Cloud, allowing customers to easily start up a familiar software package with services like Compute Engine or Cloud Storage.The availability of Stairwell via Google Cloud Marketplace provides customers with the opportunity to optimize their security program while maximizing cost efficiency in their overall financial commitment to Google Cloud.About StairwellStairwell helps organizations take back the cybersecurity high ground. The Stairwell automation platform empowers security teams with automated threat detection and response capabilities as a force multiplier across security operations, threat hunting, and incident response to help outsmart any attacker. Acknowledged by Fast Company as one of the most innovative companies of 2023, Stairwell was founded by security industry leaders and engineers from Google and is backed by Section 32, Sequoia Capital, Accel, and Gradient Ventures, as well as angel investors Eric Schmidt and Michael Ovitz

Former Cyderes President joins Stairwell as Vice President of Business DevelopmentMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Stairwell, a leading cybersecurity company that empowers security teams to outsmart any attacker, today announced the appointment of Eric Foster as its Vice President of Business Development. Foster was previously President of Cyderes, a leading managed detection and response provider and the first managed security services provider for Stairwell's flagship platform for automated threat detection and response."When looking to bolster our strategic growth, bringing Foster on board was a natural choice and an essential step," said Mike Wiacek, CEO and Founder of Stairwell. "Foster was my thought partner throughout my time at Chronicle, and when Stairwell joined forces with Cyderes to expand its managed detection and response solutions earlier this year. He's an information security expert with the business background needed to bring Stairwell's vision to life — enabling more teams to thwart hackers' repetitive evasion techniques."Foster has three decades of tech business experience and has spent 20 years building cybersecurity powerhouses from the ground up. He co-founded Cyderes with Gary Fish under Fishtech Group, which was later sold to Apax Partners and merged with Robert Herjavec's Herjavec Group. Before Cyderes, Foster helped build and scale the cybersecurity company RiskIQ as Head of Customer Success before its acquisition by Microsoft for $500 million