The team of six aims to keep customers safe by monitoring their online behavior and identifying potential cybersecurity threats, while also providing an online community and educational resources.
Computer science majors Sarah Leonetti ’24 and Nicole Perugini '24 were assigned a class project to develop a business idea they could bring to market. The idea the group selected evolved into what the team will pitch as Golden Guardian Solutions (GGS) on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at the ¼â½ÐÊÓƵ StartUp Showcase. GGS is a web app dedicated to providing family members who could be targets of cyber fraud with peace of mind through data traffic analysis. Leonetti proposed the idea based on her family’s unfortunate experience when her grandmother lost 95 percent of her life savings and investments.
“Through GGS, my goal is to prevent similar experiences from happening to other families,” said Leonetti, who is the group’s team leader. GGS uses an artificial intelligence-driven authentication system to monitor the customer’s online interactions and detect unknown traffic. In this scenario, GGS will also alert the customer’s emergency contact, likely a family member, and work in partnership with the customer and emergency contact to help assess the situation.
