For Executive Protection, Physical and Cyber Security Have Fully Converged

Managing the nexus between physical and cyber security is possible with a deliberate mindset and full cooperation and integration between the two teams. Physical security practitioners should view cyber defense experts as a vital component ...

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Deception Needs to be an Essential Element of Your Cyber Defense Strategy

In the cyber defense community, we talk about a wide-range of risk mitigating technologies, strategies, and activities. We talk about attacker deterrence and increasing costs for the attacker. We invest in endpoint agents, threat intelligence, ...

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Which CIA Executive Impacted Snowden’s OODA Loop?

Edward Snowden’s new book is out next Tuesday, but OODA Loop got an advance copy. In the book, Snowden identifies two major catalysts that not only pushed him over the edge, but also informed his ...

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Here is How the FBI Wants You to Protect Your Audio/Visual Devices from Cyberattack

An FBI bulletin provides an overview and detailed recommendations on how cyberattackers are targeting audio/visual systems to compromise corporate networks along with recommendations on how to prevent such attacks.

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CISA Outlines Agency’s Strategic Intent

The newly formed Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)has released a strategic intent document outlining the agencies role in protecting U.S. critical infrastructure and cyberspace. It is important for OODA Network Members to track the ...

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Def Con is the Most Valuable Security Conference of the Year. Here’s Why.

There are literally hundreds of cybersecurity conferences hosted around the world each year and as a result it can be difficult to determine which conferences provided the highest value in the domain. While each of these ...

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What You Should Know About China’s “Destruction Warfare” Doctrine

In 1999 a book called "Unrestricted Warfare" emerged from China and over the past two decades it has served as a good guide for how China views conflict and in particular, cyber and economic conflicts. ...

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Cyber Sensemaking Part Two: Management Lessons Learned and Essential Actions

In Part Two of this series on Cyber Sensemaking, OODA CEO Matt Devost steps through the top management lessons learned and actions that can be taking to drive your cyber risk management program.

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Cyber Sensemaking – Essential Observations for the Next Five Years

Distilling over 25 years working in the fields of cybersecurity and cyberconflict across a multitude of domains including government, corporate, think tank, and academic this article serves as a foundational distillation of observations that can ...

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The Hackers Who Saved the World – Interview with Author Joe Menn

I've just finished reading an advance copy of Joseph Menn's new book Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World (Amazon Link) and can recommend highly for OODA ...

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