The security community has been slowly going blind for twenty years. The monitoring infrastructure that the industry relies on was mapped by sophisticated adversaries long ago, and the collection architecture barely changed in response. Meanwhile, the coordinated disclosure process that was supposed to give defenders time to respond has been collapsing under the weight of AI-assisted development, where code ships faster than anyone can evaluate it.

We started this company because the research made the problem undeniable, and because we had spent a decade building the only collection apparatus that could address it at scale. Eric’s dissertation changed how the field thinks about internet measurement and cloud security. Patrick’s work on adversarial machine learning informs how we validate every rule our AI generates. Paul has founded and exited three enterprise security companies and knows what it takes to build products that security teams will actually deploy. Between us, we have published more than 400 papers and spent over sixty years working on the problems Terrace was built to solve.

The company is named after the Memorial Union Terrace at the University of Wisconsin, where this work began. We thought that was worth remembering.