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Like many organizations, PNNL faces the challenge of analyzing growing volumes of security
data without the human resources necessary to match demand.

Quickly recognizing this challenge, they put their support behind an artificial intelligence system
that had been incubated at the Lab and successfully transferred to a commercial entity,
Champion Technology Company.

By choosing this path, PNNL overcame the hurdles and resource constraints inherent with
developing new products and services while benefitting from the outcome.

The result of this successful technology transfer will deliver value to the host organization for
years to come.

DarkLight, Champion Technology’s core product and the newly evolved company name, is now
commercially available. With sights set on cybersecurity, DarkLight models the behavior of a
seasoned analyst, performing the “sense-making” and “decision-making” that’s required of the
human analyst when applying his or her tradecraft.

By fusing information from disparate sources, DarkLight enables organizations to understand
and respond to the threat within the context of its enterprise.

Capturing and scaling this analytic tradecraft goes a long way to closing the cyber-security
talent gap that most organizations face.

Augmented intelligence helps organizations make determinations on what threats are most
important and what threats need the most attention.

“DarkLight captures the analytical processes of a human analyst in order to enable automated
reasoning, prioritization and action on a network, effectively acting as an analyst itself,” said
John Shearer, CEO and Co-Founder at DarkLight.

“The cybersecurity industry is past the point of throwing bodies at the ‘data deluge’ problem to
solve it. We saw this gap, and knew that with the right commercial sponsorship, the solution
developed at PNNL could solve the problem.”

DarkLight and PNNL are consummate examples of how entities like government agencies can
take great strides in infusing innovation to overcome the barriers, which exist within their own
environments.

By following the example set by PNNL and its support of DarkLight, the sky is the limit to
growing innovative products and ideas, both for the benefit of the host agency, and possibly for
everyone else as well.

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