The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue – The Quad – and the Future of AI

The 2023 Quad Leaders Summit (which was supposed to meet in Australia on May 24, 2023, after the G7 Summit in Japan) was canceled (after Joe Biden shortened his Asia trip to attend to the ...

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The City of Dallas, Over a Month After A Ransomware Attack, is Still not at Full Functionality

Amidst all the headlines and uncertainty, a story you do not want to miss is that of a major American municipality struggling to get back on its feet for an entire month after a ransomware ...

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The Origin Story of the APT Turla, the Hunt for “The Snake” Malware, and Current Steps for Prevention

Like our recent coverage of the People's Republic of China's advanced persistent threat (APT) Volt Typhoon, OODA Loop Contributor Emilio Iasiello led the way with his recent coverage of the international cooperation that led to ...

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Eight Noteworthy GPT Announcements, Large Language Model Developments and AI Productivity Tools

Following is a survey of recently announced GPT platforms of note - culled from the exponential generative AI headlines of the last few months.  It is a curated selection of *GPT and *AI platforms for ...

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The OODAcon 2022 Welcome Address by OODA CEO Matt Devost: “Surviving Exponential Disruption”

As we begin to ramp up for OODAcon 2023 (October 25th in Reston, VA), we return to Matt's opening comments from OODAcon 2022.  Find the full transcript below, as well as a link to the ...

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The OODA Network on the Corporate Governance of Cybersecurity

This conversation took place during the May 2023 OODA Network Member Meeting.  A handful of OODA Network members recently attended the Digital Director's Network (DDN) DOMINO '23 Conference in Chicago. This is the discussion of ...

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Microsoft, CISA, NSA, FBI, and the Five Eyes on the PRC’s Advanced Persistent Threat: Volt Typhoon

In his post earlier this week, OODA Loop Contributor Emilio Iasiello provided the initial coverage of a “cluster of activity” linked to China, targeting networks across U.S. critical infrastructures and Guam:  Chinese Cyber Activities Against ...

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Federal Deadlines for Updates to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities and Zero-days Patches

While these deadlines to remediate identified vulnerabilities and patch zero-days are a mandate for federal agencies based on Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01, a review of these recent announcements is an excuse for private sector ...

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Platforms for Sustainable Food Production

Research courtesy of the Blockchain Research Institute explores how the blockchain will be the foundational technology of the multi-sided technology platforms of the future.  In this case study, a platform that consists of everything from ...

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NIST Wants Your Input Now on Two Strategic Challenges: Adversarial Machine Learning and Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI)

OODA CEO Matt Devost featured the advent of adversarial machine learning in his keynote at OODAcon 2022. In recent conversations with OODA Senior Advisor and Network Member Chris Ward, we discussed the challenges inherent in ...

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