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How secure are these AI apps? w/ Tito Sestito, CEO and Founder of HiddenLayer

AI is the most vulnerable technolgoy that's ever been pushed to production systems, while at the same time also being the fastest technology to be deployed into production systems.

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Chris "Tito" Sestito, CEO and Co founder of HiddenLayer, joins the show to talk about

- How prepared (or unprepared) companies and our government is for the evolution of AI

- Raising a $50M round from Microsoft, Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM, and Capital One, and Chris' thoughts around building a business with strategic capital and partnerships.

- How Tito and team think about prioritizing what HiddenLayer works on when the total addressable market is HUGE and customers want it all, now.

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Chris "Tito" Sestito

CEO and Co founder of HiddenLayer

Chris ‘Tito’ Sestito is Co-founder & CEO of HiddenLayer, a cybersecurity start-up dedicated to preventing adversarial machine learning attacks. He has over a decade of experience leading global threat research, intelligence, engineering, and data science teams, with a focus on security products at organizations such as Cylance, Qualys and Agari. Tito has delivered cybersecurity and data science training for Fortune 500 organizations and government agencies, led 3rd party product testing engagements, including MITRE, managed research patents, and overseen acquisition transitions for both private equity and public purchases. Tito lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife Kristin, son Jon, and daughter Hale

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