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<blockquote data-quote="cruelsister" data-source="post: 1089907" data-attributes="member: 7463">Cylance is a very interesting story. It was promoted as the original AI detection application. As a Startup they raised well over 500 million USD (with a chunk coming from my old friends at In-Q-Tel). It was promoted as the original AI detection application. But the vast majority of the startup capital was spend on aggressive advertisements touting how superior the product was in comparison to all others. This continued even after they were caught using false malware test files in 2016. They then went around the country with their &quot;Cylance Unbelievable Tour&quot; dog and pony show where they challenged those attending to bring their own malware to be tested against the product. I personally attended one with a few friends (we brought our own stuff) and I assure you things did not work at well for Cylance at all. The promise was they would certainly fix the deficiencies uncovered which of course never happened.But things worked out well for them eventually as they got nice compensation for years and then sold out to BB for 1.4billion USD. Turns out that great marketing prevails over product quality every time, always and everywhere.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cruelsister, post: 1089907, member: 7463"] Cylance is a very interesting story. It was promoted as the original AI detection application. As a Startup they raised well over 500 million USD (with a chunk coming from my old friends at In-Q-Tel). It was promoted as the original AI detection application. But the vast majority of the startup capital was spend on aggressive advertisements touting how superior the product was in comparison to all others. This continued even after they were caught using false malware test files in 2016. They then went around the country with their "Cylance Unbelievable Tour" dog and pony show where they challenged those attending to bring their own malware to be tested against the product. I personally attended one with a few friends (we brought our own stuff) and I assure you things did not work at well for Cylance at all. The promise was they would certainly fix the deficiencies uncovered which of course never happened. But things worked out well for them eventually as they got nice compensation for years and then sold out to BB for 1.4billion USD. Turns out that great marketing prevails over product quality every time, always and everywhere. [/QUOTE]

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