Ordinary search techniques proved unsatisfactory, so McKee entered into a collaboration with Harold E.Edgerton, professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The technique developed by the Georgia tech researchers based a robot's deceptive action selection on its understanding of the individual robot it was attempting to deceive.

“Boards should pay as much attention to these IT operational risks as they do to other operational risks in the firm, ” argues George Westerman of the MIT Sloan School of Management.