Two cyber experts are launching a consulting firm and a fund. We have the details.

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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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