Dave DeWalt’s Perspective on His Strategic Investment In Blackbird.AI and Advisory Board Chairman
NightDragon founder and CEO Dave DeWalt explains the need for security teams to protect organizations from narrative attacks created by misinformation and disinformation using Blackbird.AI.
Dave DeWalt
In the past week, we have seen a concerning spike in the amount of misinformation and disinformation as immense global events unfold. Around the Crowdstrike incident, for instance, we saw fringe narratives and conspiracies increase drastically across the Internet, as well as false narratives about the cause of the incident flood our social media – driving confusion and very real danger to those working to protect our systems and get us up and running again.
READ: Blackbird.AI’s Narrative Intelligence Report on the Crowdstrike Outage here to see the full impact
While we work through the recovery and response to incidents like Crowdstrike, we cannot ignore the larger ripple effect caused by misinformation and disinformation.
For this reason, I am excited to announce today a strategic investment in Blackbird.AI and join Wasim Khaled and the company as Advisory Board Chairman. Blackbird.AI’s platform protects us against the narrative attacks created by misinformation and disinformation with an AI-driven platform that identifies key narratives, the influence behind them, the networks they touch, anomalous behavior, and the communities that connect them. In our age of misinformation and disinformation, this technology could not be more essential.
These efforts are only growing more important and significant as we head into elections this fall in the US, as well as continue to undergo elections around the world. Not to mention increased cyberattacks, wars, geopolitical tensions, and negative narratives about businesses. We cannot ignore this threat if we want to ensure security in our world. The time in now.
About Blackbird.AI
BLACKBIRD.AI protects organizations from narrative attacks created by misinformation and disinformation that cause financial and reputational harm. Our AI-driven Narrative Intelligence Platform – identifies key narratives that impact your organization/industry, the influence behind them, the networks they touch, the anomalous behavior that scales them, and the cohorts and communities that connect them. This information enables organizations to proactively understand narrative threats as they scale and become harmful for better strategic decision-making. A diverse team of AI experts, threat intelligence analysts, and national security professionals founded Blackbird.AI to defend information integrity and fight a new class of narrative threats. Learn more at Blackbird.AI.