Pinochle.AI Gets It: Solving the Cybersecurity "Last Mile" Problem (Anticipating vs. Reacting)

*CHICAGO, IL / ACCESSWIRE / December 8, 2021 / *For too long, organizations have focused on building layers of protection for networks, systems, and data. These approaches are intended to enable detection and response. Although such techniques have value, they reflect a dangerous reality: that we've been letting the "bad guys" set the pace. So, it comes as no surprise that organizations battle another pandemic: skyrocketing hacking attempts. Pinochle.AI's insurgent mission is to shift the balance of power away from the adversaries and back in our favor.

*Ranjani Venkatraman, COO & Ranghan Venkatraman, CEO | CTO of **Pinochle.AI*

*Cyber resilience is "Bend but not Break"*

When a leopard threatens a band of chimpanzees, the leopard rarely succeeds in picking off a stray. Chimps know how to respond to this kind of threat. But when a man with an automatic rifle comes near, the routine responses fail. Chimps risk extinction in a world of poachers unless they figure out how to disarm a new threat. Similarly, new cyber threats continue to emerge daily, unless organizations can learn and quickly adapt to new challenges, they are likely to face their own form of extinction.

The cost and large-scale disruptions caused by the SolarWinds and Colonial Pipeline cyberattacks illustrate the debilitating effects of cyber threats on organizations across all industry segments. With cyberattack efforts constantly evolving to evade detection, the need for organizations to stay on top of security innovations cannot be underestimated - especially considering the recent 160% year-on-year increase in ransomware events and a 30x premium on remediation costs, relative to the cost of prevention.

According to Ranghan Venkatraman, CEO of Pinochle.AI (a Rezilyens company), "heavy snow and rains will come but organizations need to prepare for the worst - and be the tree that bends but doesn't break!" The "last mile" problem in cybersecurity has given birth into Pinochle.AI's industry leading hyperconverged approach which combines operational excellence, cyber solutions leadership, and collective threat intelligence. Their 360-degree autonomous "self-edge" is the vertex positioned at the central axis of the cyber hardening chain through "self-attacking", "self-learning" and "self-healing". This autonomous approach effectively offers organizations a smarter, more adaptive layer that stays one step ahead of evolving threats.

*Out-innovate Cyber Attackers the "Social" Way:*

It must be noted that effective security is not based on the security controls deployed, but the expertise and intelligence behind them. Pinochle.AI takes an intelligence-led, multi-threaded approach, advancing security controls and enabling continuous security validation, detection, and response. To achieve this, Pinochle.AI's "anti-fragile" innovations provide end-to-end cybersecurity "self-edge" solutions geared toward designing fully-transformed and more valuable customers.

Each day, Pinochle.AI tracks threat actors who target vulnerable organizations with limited access to security resources. Ranjani Venkatraman (COO) says "...it is very common for the most technically sophisticated and well-organized actors to prey on individuals and organizations who struggle to mount an effective defense. This must stop, and that's why Pinochle.AI aims to bolster cyber defenses for the community at large through our CSR (corporate social responsibility) program 11Labs."

Ranjani, who also leads the CSR program, says that 11Labs is designed to serve organizations and individuals most at risk with a demonstrated need for support. 11Labs primarily supports think tanks, journalists, NGOs, non-profits, universities, and schools, to name a few. Resource deficiency is one of the bottlenecks that organizations around the globe encounter in their attempts to improve security - and this problem is exacerbated for the smaller guys. For example, state and local governments appear to lack sufficient resources to adequately secure our election infrastructure. Non-profits and small family-owned businesses are often unable to invest in robust security infrastructure. In fact, 60% of small and mid-sized businesses that are hacked go out of business within six months.With an emphasis on security as a social imperative, Pinochle wants to play a significant enabling role in the cyber defense strategies of organizations of all sizes. While socially responsible cybersecurity might sound divergent from traditional CSR programs, post-pandemic trends have elevated cybersecurity to national security status. This is especially poignant with the Biden administration issuing sweeping new orders and calling for bold changes and significant investments in order to defend the vital institutions that underpin the American way of life.

As organizations look to emerge stronger, business continuity and crisis management plans must be fit for purpose. Business leaders should expect more frequent crisis. They need to transform how they think about security. Team Pinochle.AI aims to make America and the world more secure with advanced cybersecurity tools that are not just accessible for big, well-funded companies - but also to the smaller players that are vital to local economies.

*Media Contact:*

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Mthompson@pinochle.ai

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