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guardDog AI on
Raising Integrators'
Consciousness of
Cybersecurity
CI chats with guardDog AI's Peter Bookman
about how the company's technology can
facilitate attack protection and remediation
across verticals.
Commercial Integrator:
What are the three biggest
things that our readers
should know about
guardDog?
Peter Bookman: I think the
first one is that our devices - all
of them, really - are inherently
vulnerable to the networks
they join or are a part of. So,
it's really important all of us
know what's on the network
any given time, what they're
doing and behaving like, so we
can be safe about that. So we
can protect ourselves and our
devices can remain safe.
The second one is that typical
cybersecurity or protection
of those devices, or all our
devices, revolves around remediation...the
ability to respond
when something happens.
When something bad happens
to devices, to the network or to
anything on or around that.
And the third one is the simple
act of being aware. Being
able to respond and remediate
really changes everything
about how we think about
cybersecurity. So, we're able to
rethink cybersecurity, and everyone
can simply be involved
in keeping their networks,
their devices, everything safe
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through being able to know
what's going on, through being
able to manage threat level
and being able to remediate
when something is attempted
that might otherwise harm our
devices - such as hacking.
CI: In addition to home
automation, what vertical
markets are you addressing
right now?
Bookman: " Standards of care "
are the words we hear about
how we apply this and how
we solve this uniquely with a
solution that is very simple to
deploy. And through deploying,
it gives that watchful
care...that watchful awareness
of what's going on. And, from
that, it's able to also automatically
remediate to attempts on
that. So, through that, we're
seeing every vertical, really,
benefit from knowing what's
going on and being able to
offer these protective measures
either through remediation
automatically that we offer or
through lowering the attack
surfaces. Simply put, that's
making it so we're harder to
attack in the first place, should
anyone succeed.
So, from that perspective,
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we're in healthcare, we're
in financial services, we're
manufacturing, we are in
insurance.... We are in most
verticals because, wherever
there's a network - networks
seem to be ubiquitous today -
it's highly likely there's no one
keeping watch on the network.
You might be watching devices
or certain amounts or portions
of them. A lot of people
expect the devices will protect
themselves. And yet, because
they're inherently vulnerable
from the network they're on,
they're also not able to be.
So, we're seeing it universally
almost in any vertical because
that standard of care of typically
being able to remediate in hours
or days or even longer from
attempted exploits, that usually
are successful, to less than half
a second, automatically, really
gives us a lot of air cover to be
able to lower our attack surface,
even when vulnerabilities are
present, as well as respond
to those in other ways. So, it's
really exciting. And, through
partnerships, we're really excited
about being able to offer
even more breadth in each one
of those verticals that might be
unique to each vertical.
Peter Bookman, founder
and CEO, guardDog AI.
CI: How can integrators get
more involved with guardDog?
Bookman: The simplest answer
is just go to guarddog.ai,
and you can learn more there.
There's the beginning of information
from there. We have
many ways to contact us - via
email, via a form, via a call. And
we're excited to share more.
From there, you can imagine,
there's a lot that can be shared
- a lot of opportunity for
breadth and growth and how
this might apply not just in each
vertical but within niches in
each of those verticals. Whether
you're offering solutions
today and want to add cybersecurity
to that. You no longer
need cybersecurity expertise;
you might have networking
expertise and device expertise.
Adding this to that really just
offers that much more. So, just
any of those. But begin with
the website: guarddog.ai.
From there, pick your medium
- whether that's social media,
phone call, fill out a form - and
we would be excited to share
more with you and to partner
with you and help solve these
problems together. We're excited
about the safer world we're
creating with you.
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