Machine learning, advanced heuristics, or artificial intelligence: the language is shifting but the idea that computers are taking a greater role in automating security functions is moving straight ahead. Two new product announcements demonstrate that direction in very different ways. Aella Data and Senzing each brings a product based on AI technology to market, and in some ways the products could not be more different in purpose, intended audience, or business model. But both share a critical similarity: Each uses AI to correlate data from many different sources to present information that assists humans in doing their jobs. Aella Data came out of stealth mode just before this year's RSA Conference.

WIRE)--Aella Data, a leading innovator in AI-driven cybersecurity solutions, officially exits stealth mode today with the launch of Starlight Pervasive Breach Detection System (PBDS), the industry's first AI-driven pervasively deployable solution. Founded by security industry veterans, Aella Data's Starlight PBDS is the only system that can be deployed pervasively across all network infrastructures. It unifies collected data and conducts advanced analysis to deliver high-fidelity, actionable alerts that reduce detection time from months to mere minutes, and alert volume from thousands to the critical few. The company formally launches at RSA Conference 2018 with a growing list of key customers and partners. Aella Data's launch and its disruptive technology is timely in a world gone awry with increasingly costly and far-reaching cyberattacks.