Brian Carbaugh

So what we looked at and what we've built, Noah, is technology.

a product that uses advanced technology, obviously we're using AI, it's at the core of what we do, as well as some really disciplined approach and creative approaches to data science and technology software development and pairing with elite cybersecurity professionals, people who've spent their careers in this space.

to bring a piece of technology really that has the human operator, that cybersecurity analyst at the center of all that we do.

So we like to say, and we're proud of the fact that we have built technology to very elegantly wrap around the user, to wrap around that cybersecurity practitioner.

With the goal of being, let's make your life easier.

It's a stressful place.

There's a ton of burnout.

There's no reinforcements on the way in terms of all of those cyber vacancies, a lot of empty seats.

So we want to use technology, certainly not to replace the human, but to make the humans better, faster, stronger in making decisions to reduce risk.

So again, at our center, what we do is transform and accelerate the accuracy of human cyber work to reduce the risk.

It actually started shortly after I retired from CIA.

I got a phone call from some colleagues back inside the US intelligence community.

I was asked to come in and sit down and talk with some digital and cyber leaders who were trying to solve hard problems.

And one of those problems was workforce retention.

just losing people out of the socks and out of the cyber workforce that as they got experienced and got to that point where they're that tier two or tier three cyber operator that we know they're off they go and they end up being poached by private sector companies who can move faster and they could get their hands on the latest technology the questions that started coming at me from some teammates back inside the intelligence community were really centering around

how can we maximize the efficiency and the speed of our workforce?

How do we optimize?

And the real number that was thrown down was, hey, Brian, what do you think we could do to sort of 10x the impact of our workforce?

And as we started looking at it and ideating on how, if we were going to build our own company to try to do this or how we would advise,

those back inside the building on how to do it, it started to center around just how fast the technology is changing, right?