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from commercialization inception to incredibly significant and disruptive public
offerings’.

NightDragon Security is not looking to invest in ‘yet another endpoint’ solution or falling
for the hype of ‘yet another a.i. solution’, it’s creating a unique platform for tomorrow’s
solutions to come to market faster, to breath new life into a stale cyber defense
economy. Yes, there are billions being spent on cyber security solutions but the problem
he shares so honestly is that the exploiters have already begun shifting into these easily
exploitable and very critical infrastructures. His teams’ mission is to take that knowledge
and work with the future movers and shakers, the ‘Fireeye’s of the Drones dilemma or the
Industrial ICS/SCADA area or the incredibly pervasive IoT area and the list goes on, as you
can see from his Biggest Gap slide. So let’s go through these and learn from him how the
future will play out in Cyber Defense, shall we?

DRONES & DOMES

These are two separate categories but also very similar, with one driving the
other…

In the case of Drones, how do we have a perfect Cyber storm? According to Dr. DeWalt,
the number and types of drones is growing incredibly – their speed, performance
(improvements in batteries using carbon nano-fiber tech, etc.) the technology is moving
much faster than any thoughts about security. These devices have lots of vulnerabilities
and because of this explosive innovation, have also created a very large attack surface.

They will soon deliver packages and baggage and soon – people. But what happens when
a drone, heaven forbid, is carrying explosives? Or what happens when a drone
becomes armed and learns how to ‘shoot to kill’? With beehives and base stations for
management of deliveries and the usage of drones outside of the military, we now have
enabled the opportunity for very bad actors – cyberterrorists, hacktivists and
cybercriminals to attack innocent civilians, steal information and even hold you hostage
with ransomware that might hit your package delivery fleet. There are so many scenarios
it creates the need for drone hardening, drone protection as well as drone intrusion
detection and prevention. Therefore, NightDragon Security will be making investments
in this space. In addition, Dr. DeWalt sees the need for Domes because of Drones.

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