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PNNL provided the necessary support and continues to use DarkLight and host visits for other
government labs and organizations to see for themselves.

The DarkLight Result

Fostering commercial development of new technologies helped produce a product unique in its
approach to analytics.

The DarkLight artificial intelligence has applications in all sectors in extrapolating actionable
intelligence from data produced by existing cybersecurity solutions.

Instead of focusing on a data centric methodology, DarkLight captures and automates the
human logic to analyze enterprise-wide data at scale.

This gives PNNL a commercial technology to address the shortage of trained IT security
analysts and improve its cybersecurity status in an environment producing huge volumes of
data.

Fostering innovation need not be a struggle. With strong executive leadership, new ideas for
solving new challenges can be developed and commercialized to benefit both the parent
organization and the broader IT community.

About the Author

John Shearer, Co-Founder and CEO, DarkLight

John is an award-winning international technologist, inventor, and former
CEO of several tech ventures who currently serves as Practitioner Faculty
and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio
School of Business and Management.

John has been instrumental in substantially growing the MBA
Entrepreneurship Program at Pepperdine University and has co-founded
the Early X Foundation, a unique Intellectual Property commercialization process. In this
teaching role, he develops MBA student-founded, innovation-based businesses.

Globally, he locates and evaluates cutting-edge technologies with significant commercial value
from other universities, national and international research laboratories and within the private
sector for commercialization.

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