Oh, *Great*. Another “AI Security Platform”

Right. So some company called Pillar thinks they’ve reinvented the wheel – this time with “AI.” Apparently, their platform, which they’re desperately trying to flog as revolutionary, is supposed to help security teams deal with… wait for it… *alerts*. Like we haven’t seen that before. It’s a dashboard, okay? A fancy-looking dashboard that ingests logs and tries to correlate stuff. Groundbreaking.

They’re touting “contextualization” – meaning it attempts to tell you why an alert is happening instead of just screaming at you. Shocking. It also has a “threat intelligence” feed, which I’m sure is as up-to-date and accurate as every other one out there (read: mostly useless). And they’ve got some automated response capabilities – because clearly what we need are MORE scripts making decisions for us.

The whole thing revolves around “pillars” of detection, investigation, and automation. Clever marketing, I guess. It integrates with the usual suspects like CrowdStrike and SentinelOne. Basically, it’s a SIEM-adjacent tool trying to capitalize on the AI hype cycle. Don’t fall for it.

They even have a “product walkthrough” video. Because apparently, looking at screenshots isn’t enough anymore. Just… ugh.

Honestly, I’ve seen more useful security tools written in BASIC back in ’87. This is just another layer of complexity on top of an already broken system. Don’t waste your time.

Source: TheHackernews – Product Walkthrough: A Look Inside Pillar’s AI Security Platform

Speaking of useless tools, I once had a junior sysadmin install a “network monitoring solution” that sent me an alert every time someone printed a document. Every single document. I spent three hours disabling notifications before realizing it was configured to flag *all* print jobs as critical events. Three hours. Of my life. Don’t be like that junior sysadmin, and don’t buy into this Pillar bullshit.

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