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Lacework’s AI Didn’t Work - by Omer Singer

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Could anyone have predicted the spectacular downfall of cloud security heavyweight Lacework? Leading VCs had poured over a billion dollars of funding into the company, attracting high-profile tech executives, top-tier engineering talent, and over 1,000 employees at its peak. What they missed about the company’s AI strategy is instructive for a cybersecurity industry counting more than ever on artificial intelligence. In my analysis below, I’m relying only on what’s publicy available on Lacework’s website and documentation. Everything that follows is my personal interpretation of how a flawed AI strategy doomed the startup once called “one of this generation’s most important cybersecurity companies.” Subscribed Lacework’s crown jewel was its Polygraph technology. Applying artificial intelligence across extensive cloud activity logs, Polygraph was described as “the revolutionary way to use your data to automatically find what matters most across your cloud environment.” Out with threat d

Lacework’s AI Didn’t Work Why the Lacework crash is a lesson on the limitations of AI in cybersecurity Omer Singer Apr 23, 2024 19 1 1 Share Could anyone have predicted the spectacular downfall of cloud security heavyweight Lacework? Leading VCs had poured over a billion dollars of funding into the company, attracting high-profile tech executives, top-tier engineering talent, and over 1,000 employees at its peak. What they missed about the company’s AI strategy is instructive for a cybersecurity industry counting more than ever on artificial intelligence. In my analysis below, I’m relying only

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