Brian Carbaugh

Shortly after I retired from CIA, I got a phone call from some colleagues back inside the U.S.

intelligence community.

I was asked to come in and sit down and talk with some digital and cyber leaders who were trying to solve hard problems.

And one of those problems was workforce retention, just losing people out of the socks and out of the cyber workforce that as they got experience and off they go and they end up being poached by private sector companies.

The questions that started coming at me from some teammates back inside the intelligence community were really centering around, how can we maximize the efficiency and the speed of our workforce?

And the real number that was thrown down was, hey, Brian, what do you think we could do to sort of 10x the impact of our workforce?

My name is Brian Carbaugh, and I'm the CEO and co-founder of Andesite.

Most proud of our team.

You need to really want it.

Andesite is really, at our heart and soul, a data analytics company, and we're trying to use advanced data analytics to solve really hard, pernicious, long-standing problems.

Our first product that we built off of what is truly sort of a platform approach is a cybersecurity product for the Security Operations Center, so for the SOCs.

As you and your listeners know, the Sox, it's a complex workplace.

It's fluid.

It's dynamic.

There's a lot of blinking red lights.

There's a lot of alarms going off.

It's just a very frenetic, chaotic, busy place.

It also happens to be incredibly important work, right?

Noble work protecting our networks.

There's awesome people who go into the cybersecurity domain.