Why We Acquired Wirespeed

Managed detection and response (MDR) services have become a critical and necessary layer of cybersecurity defense for modern businesses. If you’ve worked with Coalition over the past few years, you’ve almost certainly heard us touting the benefits of MDR and the magnitude of its impact on cyber risk management.

The core value proposition of MDR is that it gives businesses the best of both worlds: cutting-edge technology to detect potential threats, paired with cybersecurity expertise to respond and mitigate in real time.

In a world filled with AI advancements and a growing focus on efficiency, the future of cybersecurity is about amplifying human expertise, not replacing it. Automation enables scale and speed, but it’s the combination of human judgment, contextual understanding, and adaptive reasoning that turns detection into true defense.

Naturally, the question became: How can we give our experts a lightning-fast superpower and maximize their irreplaceable strategic intelligence?

Today, we’re pleased to announce that Coalition has acquired Wirespeed™, an automated MDR platform that will seamlessly integrate with Coalition’s suite of cyber risk management tools and coverage to provide unmatched protection against fast-moving cyber threats.

The new calculus of risk: From hours to seconds

The primary result of this strategic acquisition is a definitive enhancement to time to respond. We reject the operational compromise that expert-driven defense must take minutes to hours, time during which a simple threat can escalate into a major crisis.

Wirespeed’s automated MDR translates into fast containment, thereby minimizing risk exposure before a full human response is even necessary.

Wirespeed’s platform uses a proprietary conditional logic algorithm with probabilistic AI that delivers a definitive threat verdict and initiates mitigation in seconds. This is the ultimate difference between a momentary intrusion and a full-scale breach, and the enhanced speed has direct financial and operational implications:

• For businesses, threats are contained almost immediately, severely limiting the likelihood of business interruption and data loss severity.

• For brokers, this means offering a demonstrably superior security posture that translates directly into lower underlying risk metrics and more competitive quotes. We are setting a new, higher standard for operational excellence.

Wirespeed’s automated MDR translates into fast containment, thereby minimizing risk exposure before a full human response is even necessary.

Building confidence: Quality, consistency & simplicity

Through this acquisition, the enhanced efficiency of our experts is supported by rigorous standards and a frictionless user experience, solving the two biggest hurdles to MDR adoption: complexity and unreliable performance.

Unwavering quality

The speed of Wirespeed’s automated response is built on technical rigor. Adhering to the internationally recognized quality assurance standard, ISO 2859, Wirespeed delivers a consistently repeatable verdict on threat detections in milliseconds, with a median time to verdict (MTTV) of 1,801 milliseconds.*

Security experts rely on this consistency, which significantly reduces false positives and reinforces our commitment to technical excellence.

Wirespeed delivers a consistently repeatable verdict on threat detections in milliseconds, with a median time to verdict of 1,801 milliseconds.

Frictionless workflow

The brilliance of Wirespeed is how they’ve solved the operational headache of complex tools, designing their system to integrate directly into businesses’ daily work structure.  Security collaboration is able to flow instantly within existing communication channels via seamless ChatOps (Slack, Microsoft Teams, email, etc.).

This makes the entire service easy to use, eliminating alert fatigue and operational friction for businesses’ IT teams. Making security feasible means making it accessible where people already work.

The new economics of protection

Together, we’re aiming to democratize enterprise-grade security by removing the historical cost barrier. Historically, the high cost of traditional MDR was a structural burden caused by the manual human resources required for continuous, high-volume triage.

Wirespeed users experience a 99.99% noise reduction in alerts.

The acquisition of Wirespeed radically changes this equation. Wirespeed users experience a 99.99% noise reduction in alerts.* By handling initial defense with machine speed and low overhead, we’ll be able to eliminate the operational inefficiencies that inflated legacy pricing.

This supercharged efficiency translates directly into lower costs, and the final result is a world-class MDR service that’s both now more affordable and accessible, making this crucial protection viable for businesses of all sizes.

Amplifying the Coalition Advantage

By combining Coalition’s proprietary cyber insurance data from 100,000+ policyholders with Wirespeed’s automated detection engine, we’re enabling better model calibration, faster anomaly identification, and continuous learning from real-world claims outcomes.

As part of the acquisition, we’ll be welcoming the entire Wirespeed team into Coalition, including co-founders Tim MalcomVetter (joining as General Manager, Coalition Security) and Jake Reynolds (joining as Head of Engineering, Coalition Security).

The acquisition of Wirespeed is about investing in the future of risk mitigation, and the ultimate benefit of this tooling upgrade is for businesses: We’re empowering the human element of MDR services to ensure Coalition security experts are focused 100% on the strategic defense, high-level threat hunting, and complex advisory only they can provide.

Our new, holistic approach — machine speed plus unmatched human intelligence — is the future of cyber defense and represents Coalition’s commitment to ensuring that necessary security is the most effective and feasible solution available.

Talk to our team about Wirespeed by Coalition

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*MTTV and noise reduction data based on actual alerts between August and October 2025.

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