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S12 E11: The Security Operations Center "Hellscape": Moving Beyond Broken Threat Feeds to Empower Overworked Cyber Analysts with Human-AI Collaboration with Brian Carbaugh, Co-Founder & CEO of Andesite
Mar 24, 2026 · Season 12 · Episode 11 · 34 min
10X your SOC with Andesite
Brian Carbaugh has a non-standard path to being a CEO in the startup world. He was in the marine core for 5-6 years in active duty, before attending Georgetown for school. Eventually, he joined the CIA and spent 23 years, serving the country in multiple different roles and facets, primarily in para military and covert operations. While he was there, he also started to see areas where the agency could innovate, and got curious about how they could partner with private companies. Outside of tech, he is a father of 3 girls and a boy. He enjoys working out, skiing and riding on road bikes. He used to do triathlons in the past, but startup life has taken up any time he could dedicate to that.
Shortly after he retired from the CIA, Brian got a call from some prior folks he knew still in the industry. He started digging into the cybersecurity world, specifically into why there was so much attrition amongst the employees themselves. He was asked the question about how he could 10x this workers, and optimize these individuals using the latest tech?
This is the creation story of Andesite.
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