Cylance rocked the legacy endpoint anti-virus world by introducing the first-ever endpoint prevention product that claimed the uncanny ability to detect and prevent never-before-seen malicious files from executing on an endpoint. Previously it was thought the only way to stop malicious files from executing was to have seen them before. With Cylance and its groundbreaking use of machine learning to identify characteristics of malicious files in real time, the whole paradigm shifted. Almost immediately, the adoption of Cylance skyrocketed across large and small organizations. Today, the heritage of  Cylance  can be seen across the industry, with many vendors using similar approaches to combat ransomware, phishing, and other attack types using machine learning.  Similarly, Stellar Cyber took an innovative approach to security operations by introducing the first  Open XDR platform  in 2015. With Stellar Cyber, organizations could integrate any data sourc...