The seven-year-old cybersecurity company touts the Air Force as user of its machine identity products that work to detect unusual patterns on networks involving operational technology.
Corsha, a cybersecurity company focused on protecting communications across critical infrastructure systems, has added Booz Allen Hamilton’s venture capital arm as an investor following the closure of a Series A-1 round in the spring.
Anusha Iyer and Chris Simkins founded Corsha in 2018 to create analytics tools that protect machine-to-machine communications and help defend against cyber threats. The company designs its machine identity products to detect unusual patterns on networks involving operational technology, which Corsha defines as including defense manufacturing and other critical infrastructure sectors.
For Booz Allen’s part, it will work with Corsha to further build out the latter’s research-and-development posture and scale the tools for future deployments. Terms of this investment announced Thursday were not disclosed.
Washington, D.C.-headquartered Corsha touts the Air Force as a user of the company’s products, which use artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques.
“Our patented identity technology is instrumental in bringing zero trust to our nation’s critical infrastructure, preventing malicious activity at its onset and safeguarding national security,” Iyer said in a release. “Cyberattacks targeting our nation and critical operational systems are ever more frequent and advanced. With the support of Booz Allen, we are addressing the toughest cybersecurity challenges to enable faster, safer U.S. operations and advancement.”
Booz Allen will also help Corsha in efforts to advance in manufacturing environments across critical infrastructure.
The physical world is increasingly hyperconnected and software defined, leaving military installations, civilian critical infrastructure, and other hubs of economic and national security at risk of cyber disruption,” added David Forbes, director of cyber-physical defense at Booz Allen. “Addressing identity verification challenges is a critical step towards creating more resilient systems. We invested in Corsha because we believe their technology can solve the identity problem and because we expect securing the physical world to be a significant growth vector in the cyber market.”
AI and cybersecurity are both key technology cogs in Booz Allen’s corporate strategy and priority areas of investment for the Booz Allen Ventures team, which invests in early-stage companies developing technologies for potential dual use in government and commercial markets.