On Friday 5 March at 1pm Eastern OODA’s CTO Bob Gourley will be hosting a webinar examining how the rise of AI-native startup companies like Blackwire Labs are enabling enterprises to build elite security teams.

Security teams know AI is already reshaping both offense and defense, and for years the defensive use of AI has been suboptimal to say the least. Many vendors have rushed to bolt AI onto existing products in ways that perpetuate inefficiencies, generate untrusted results, or rely on stale training data in a world where adversaries move faster than ever.

There is a better way. AI‑native companies like Blackwire Labs are born in the age of AI and designed from the ground up to solve real problems, with community‑vetted expert knowledge and a security‑first approach to trust, transparency, and control.

In this conversation cybersecurity pioneers, Bob Gourley (CTO, OODA), Josh Ray, Founder & CEO of Blackwire Labs, and Ravi Gupta, CTO of Blackwire Labs unpack what it really means to build an AI‑native defensive capability from the ground up.

You will see how Blackwire.ai acts as a seasoned cybersecurity mentor, combining expert‑vetted knowledge, predictive prompting, and blockchain‑backed integrity to guide analysts through complex investigations with trusted, explainable recommendations. The team will walk through mission‑focused demo scenarios that show Blackwire 2.0 accelerating core workflows like incident response, policy validation, and operationalizing threat intelligence—without replacing human judgment.

We will also dig into the architecture and development methodology that let Blackwire move faster than legacy vendors: an AI‑native platform, differentiation from base models through curated sources and a Cybersecurity Community of Excellence, and a Trustwire certification layer that makes every recommendation auditable for regulators, boards, and customers. Along the way, they will share hard‑won lessons from 18+ months of building and deploying AI in real‑world cyber environments, plus what investors and security leaders should expect from the next wave of AI‑driven defense platforms.

Register at: https://ooda.zoom.us/webinar/register/2017706749276/WN_7NLtp2ruQ56sAbVxlx4NZw