One-Second Accuracy: Ending Alert Fatigue

Wirespeed set out to automate and streamline the traditionally human-heavy process of detecting and responding to network intrusions. It addressed critical security challenges like detecting and stopping suspicious user logins, including those involving impossible travel. In cybersecurity, "impossible travel" refers to a scenario in which a single user account logs in from two geographically distant locations in too short a time to be physically possible. However, inaccurate or incomplete IP data undermines the reliability of impossible travel alerts. Prior to adopting IPinfo, Wirespeed faced:

• Unreliable Geolocation Data: Out-of-the-box IP data from major security providers (e.g., Microsoft, Google) was often wrong by states or entire countries.
• Excessive False Positives: With limited insight beyond basic coordinates, suspicious logins triggered repeated escalations that had to be manually reviewed.
• Slow or Incomplete Context: Determining whether a login was truly malicious required more than "city" or "country" labels. Wirespeed needed abuse contacts, privacy signals, Tor usage, and more.

Jake Reynolds and his team knew better geolocation and IP enrichment data would be essential to automating impossible travel alerts and identifying other threats. While evaluating data providers, Wirespeed found that most open databases or legacy IP intelligence vendors had outdated, inaccurate data. They needed a solution that:

• Provided high-fidelity location data (reliable down to the city/state level).
• Offered privacy insights (VPN, proxy, or Tor usage).
• Included abuse contacts to identify IP ownership footprints in adversarial or high-risk regions swiftly.
• Worked at speed and scale without slowing down Wirespeed's real-time automation pipeline.

Wirespeed integrated IPinfo's privacy and geolocation APIs into its MDR platform, automating the detection of suspicious login attempts and security events. The solution involved enriching login event logs with IP geolocation and privacy details, allowing automated alerts for unusual access patterns. The new workflow has made advanced threat detection and impossible travel truly operational at scale:

• Instant geolocation checks: Wirespeed replaces default provider location data with IPinfo's more accurate location fields, eliminating guesswork around a user's physical location.
• Privacy & abuse contact data: If an IP is flagged as a Tor exit node, a known proxy, or has abuse contacts in suspicious regions, Wirespeed's automated logic fast-tracks the event for immediate remediation.
• Fewer false positives: By refining the rules with IPinfo's data, Wirespeed dramatically reduces the number of meaningless alerts or repeated escalations to human analysts.