https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2019/01/07/two-cyber-experts-are-launching-a-consulting-firm.html
By Andy Medici
Staff Reporter
Washington Business Journal
1/7/19
The rapid growth of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the
corporate world is leaving huge cybersecurity gaps -- and a pair of
longtime security experts are launching a consultancy and venture fund to
combat them.
OODA LLC is being headed by entrepreneur and security executive Matt
Devost and former Navy intelligence officer and former CTOvision.com
Publisher Bob Gourley. The duo are also launching a separate fund -- OODA
Ventures -- with plans to raise between $10 million and $25 million to
invest in early-stage cyber startups.
"Machine learning and AI are essential technologies, but we are
unfortunately making a lot of mistakes," Devost said in an interview. "We
are not addressing the cybersecurity questions up front in terms of
building cybersecurity into the model."
The self-funded OODA -- which stands for observe, orient, decide and act,
a concept developed by Air Force Col. John Boyd to make smarter air combat
decisions -- is the latest venture for Devost and Gourley, who both have
long resumes when it comes to security and cyber issues. They both served
mentors at Mach37, the cyber accelerator located at the Center for
Innovative Technology is Dulles.
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