Board of Directors Will Need to Focus on the Human Factor of Cybersecurity

"As cyberattacks intensify, more and more organizations recognize the need to have a strong security culture for all employees. This cyber-aware workforce is a necessary addition to a skilled and knowledgeable security team and the ...

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The Global Food Security Crisis: Russia Pulls Out of the Black Sea Grain Initiative (But Continues to Smuggle Grain)

Russia has notified Turkey, Ukraine and the UN that it will not renew a deal that allowed Ukraine to export grain through the Black Sea.  Ukrainian wheat production plays a significant role in global food ...

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NATO’s Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA)

In the months before the recent 2023 NATO Summit in Lithiuania,  the NATO's Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA)  opened its European regional office at the Imperial College London Innovation Hub in London ...

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Deep Tech is, by its Very Nature, Speculative Design: The Varda Space Drug Factory (Currently Manufacturing Ritonavir in Low Earth Orbit)

This project is fully operational, but had to start as a rigorous speculative design process – more sci-fi than real world. Until it wasn't.  It is representative of the kind of project that will still ...

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The Ukrainian National Cybersecurity Coordination Center on the “First World Cyber War”

The National Cybersecurity Coordination Center (NCCC) is an organization housed within the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine and, based on the USAID logo on the front page of some of its reports, sponsored ...

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Ripple Labs Wins A Landmark SEC Ruling and Blackrock is Bullish on Cryptocurrency-based Investment Vehicles

 AI has crushed cryptocurrency in the recent technology hype cycle, garnering VC and mainstream media attention fast on the heels FTX Sam Bankman-Fried debacle which tarnished the entire crpytocurrency ecosystem.  What is going on with ...

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China’s Gallium and Germanium-based Countermeasures in the Global Chip Supply Chain War

Tactically, China recently made a significant geopoltical and in the IT supply chain move, restricting exports of two minerals used in high-performance chips.  Following is a summary of the new Chinese policy - followed by ...

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“We Have No Moat”: Tracking the Exponential Growth of Open Source LLM Performance (Latency and Throughout)

Like the Unix, Solaris, Irix, AIX Open Source operating systems that became the Linux-led open source operating system and the broader open source software movement (over a 30 to 40 year time period) the open ...

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“Big Game Hunting” and Geopolitics are Drivers in a Record Year of Ransomware Extortions

Midway through 2023 - and the scale, volume and frequency of ransomware cyber incidents are setting off alerts left and right in our risk awareness and sensemaking research efforts. In this post, we spend some ...

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Homeland Security Startup Studio: Converge 2023 – Presenting Companies and Finalists with Keynote Remarks by CISA’s Jen Easterly

The Homeland Security Startup Studio (HSSS)  hosted the hybrid Converge event on July 10 from 1-5 p.m. EST.  This culminating event of the 2023 cohort showcased the program finalists’ pitches for the cutting-edge technologies they have ...

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