>The San Diego-based startup, co-founded by a team that includes two former NSA employees

>Harvest.ai’s flagship, patent-pending AI product is called MACIE Analytics. It uses AI to monitor how a customer’s intellectual property is being accessed in real-time, assessing who is looking at, copying or moving particular documents, and where they are when they’re doing this, in order to identify suspicious patterns of behavior and flag potential data breaches before they’ve taken place. It bills the service as a way to combat the risk of insider attacks.

did they get the idea after seeing what happens at NSA with contractors/whoever downloading data to wherever?