GREENVILLE, S.C., July 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Giant
Oak, Inc. announced its expansion to Greenville, South Carolina. Founded in 2013,
Giant Oak is the leading data-screening innovator that operates at
the frontiers of behavioral science and machine learning to detect
unknown threats.
"As a growth-stage technology company helping financial
institutions, expanding our offices to Greenville, South Carolina, was an easy
decision for us," explained Gary M.
Shiffman, founder and CEO of Giant Oak. "Greenville is a great place to grow a tech
company and recruit talent in today's tight job market because
people want to live and work there. And, Greenville is conveniently located halfway in
between two massive financial districts, Charlotte, North Carolina, and Atlanta, Georgia, allowing us to better serve
our customers and institutions in this area."
Shiffman, an applied micro-economist and professor of economics,
founded Giant Oak and created its flagship technology,
GOST®. Shiffman is also the author of The Economics
of Violence: How Behavioral Science Can Transform Our View of
Crime, Insurgency, and Terrorism with Cambridge University Press in 2020. Along with
Giant Oak, Shiffman co-founded Consilient, both of which are
machine learning and artificial intelligence companies building
solutions to support professionals in the fields of combating
financial crime and managing risk.
This announcement comes shortly after Giant Oak achieved SOC-2
compliance, ensuring the safe handling of data following rigorous
examination of security, availability, and confidentiality
controls. Patented earlier this year, GOST is a trusted platform
for screening and continuous vetting in the financial services
industry and government agencies.
"I am thrilled to welcome Giant Oak, an innovative national
security and RegTech company, to the Greenville business community. Innovative
technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence,
are integral to ensuring our safety and security, combating illicit
behaviors such as fraud, money laundering, and ransomware," said
U.S. Representative William Timmons
of South Carolina's 4th
Congressional District.
For more information about Giant Oak or GOST, please visit
www.giantoak.com or email info@giantoak.com.
About Giant Oak
At Giant Oak, we build trusted tools
at the frontiers of behavioral science and artificial intelligence
that enable you to make both rapid and informed decisions in an
increasingly dynamic security environment. Giant Oak Search
Technology (GOST®) makes screening easy. GOST is an
open-source search and triage tool that builds a custom internet
domain and organizes information to detect suspicious behavior.
GOST re-indexes the open and deep webs to return publicly available
electronic information (PAEI) in prioritized results relevant to
the user's requirements. By deploying machine-learning algorithms
to refine search results and generate analytic scores, entities are
sorted by relevance and threat level. For more information, visit
www.giantoak.com.
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