Shimon Modi, VP of Product Management at Dataminr, was featured on CyberRisk TV at Black Hat 2024. During the interview, Shimon discusses the growing complexities of the cyber threat landscape and how Dataminr’s use of AI helps security teams identify and mitigate risks and vulnerabilities faster.
He emphasizes the importance of AI in augmenting the work human analysts do, allowing them to focus on higher-order tasks by automating the processing of vast and varied data. Shimon also highlights the critical role AI plays in enhancing the resilience of organizations against emerging cyber threats.
About Dataminr:
Dataminr has created a revolutionary real-time AI platform for detecting events, risks and critical information from public data signals. Recognized as one of the world’s leading AI companies, Dataminr enables faster real-time response and more effective risk management for public and private sector organizations including multinational corporations, governments, NGOs, and newsrooms. Most recently valued at $4.1B, Dataminr is one of New York’s top private technology companies with approximately 800 employees across seven global offices.
Dataminr’s corporate products—Dataminr Pulse for Corporate Security and Dataminr Pulse for Cyber Risk—are relied on by hundreds of leading global corporations including two-thirds of the Fortune 50 and half of the Fortune 100. The company’s First Alert product serves the defense, federal, state and local and NGO markets in both the U.S and across the globe, including the United Nations, which relies on First Alert in over 100 countries. Dataminr for News is used by more than 1,500 newsrooms and over 30,000 journalists worldwide.
Dataminr’s world-leading AI platform performs trillions of daily computations across billions of public data inputs from over one million unique public data sources encompassing text, image, video, audio and sensor signals. The company is known for its trailblazing AI platform that has pioneered multimodal fusion AI for real-time event detection. Harnessing the power of LLMs and multimodal foundation models, Dataminr’s AI platform is at the forefront of AI innovation in both predictive AI and generative AI. Dataminr has been recognized by Forbes AI 50 and Deloitte Fast 500, and was named to the Forbes Cloud 100 for six consecutive years.
