BALTIMORE (AP) — Gov. Martin O’Malley highlighted Maryland on Tuesday as a fertile ground for cybersecurity business by visiting a company that designs software to detect internal threats to organizations — software the company CEO described as “a way to look for the Snowdens of the world,” a reference to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden.

The company, RedOwl Analytics in Baltimore, specializes in organizing data produced by employees such as emails, phone calls, text messages and expense reports, into a more easily investigated form. CEO Guy Filippelli described such data as “digital exhaust” that now gets stored in different archives of a company.