Stellar Cyber: The Definitive Cyber Security Guide

Digitization is transforming the business world, and many companies are adopting internet-of-things (IoT) devices and moving more of their data into cloud environments. As this digital transformation presents a plethora of opportunities, it also brings along challenges. Some of the most prevalent ones are the evolving security needs that come with this digitization. Cyber threats, sadly, are becoming more and more commonplace in today’s smart world.

Over the past few decades, we’ve also seen significant advances in the detection and management of various cybers ecurity threats. However, today a new problem has arisen in the world of cyber security – the problem of too many vendors, each with their own distinct solution. Often, large corporations install over 8-10 cyber security systems, and then, there are multiple data sets, numerous algorithms, and multiple management consoles. It truly amounts to being too much of a good thing. Here enters Stellar Cyber – a company whose Starlight platform rounds up all the different datasets and brings all the cybersecurity analysis into one mighty and sophisticated unified management console.

Stellar Cyber was founded in 2015 by Changming Liu (CEO) and Aimei Wei (Sr. VP of Engineering) who are industry pioneers from leading companies including Aerohive, Netscreen, Fortinet, Vectra, Juniper, Cisco, VMware, Gigamon, and A10 Networks; Stellar Cyber is based in Silicon Valley, and venture-backed by Valley Capital Partners, Big Basin Partners, SIG – Susquehanna and Northern Light Venture Capital.

Stellar Cyber– An Open-XDR Security platform

Stellar Cyber has developed the world’s first open anywhere detection & response (Open-XDR) platform, providing maximum protection of applications and data wherever they reside and automatically responding to attacks wherever they occur. Open XDR tightly integrates dozens of security applications from an App Store and presents results in an intuitive dashboard to supercharge analyst productivity, slashing attack response times to seconds or minutes.

Essentially, The platform is a security hub through which customers can manage their entire security infrastructure through a single pane of glass. The solution deploys quickly on-premises, in public clouds, or with service providers. Indeed, it is a platform that is in sync with the need of the hour as ‘tool creep-fatigue’ envelops one security team after another.

A Vision for Cyber Security

Discrete security tools typically create silos of visibility that make security analyst teams blind to the big picture and force manual event correlation. Open-XDR platforms unify these disparate tools under a common interface, provide holistic security posture visibility, enable correlation with machine speed rather than depending on manual labor, and allow admins to respond from the same platform. Stellar Cyber’s vision is to redefine what is possible in cyber breach detection, investigation, and response to make the connected world a better place. Their mission statement aptly aims to transform siloed thinking into connected thinking – leading customers towards an open security application platform that is attuned to their specific needs, deployable in any environment, and delivers simplified operations through automation.

The Team – The Building Blocks for Stellar Cyber

The founders believed in maintaining a low profile and keeping the company small until the ‘whole product’ was well assimilated. Of course, this would have been impossible without the backing of a strong team, including the data scientists, coders, architects, and security experts, who came together to execute this product in an already competitive market. The company has always maintained a transparent culture that encourages the team to raise issues and suggest solutions. They eternally aim to imbibe meritocracy into the fabric of the daily work ethic.

The founders, who were veterans in the cyber security space, knew that intrinsically, there is a data problem. Organizations have dozens of siloed tools, and, as a result, siloed data. It is therefore difficult to correlate common events or related events. Narrowing this gap became the premise of the product. They also strongly believed that users expect more than just tech today; and, thus, were insistent upon a product that combined great tech and great GUI (graphical user interface).