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Matt Devost

Matthew G. Devost is the CEO & Co-Founder of OODA LLC. Matt is a technologist, entrepreneur, and international security expert specializing in counterterrorism, critical infrastructure protection, intelligence, risk management and cyber-security issues. Matt co-founded the cyber security consultancy FusionX from 2010-2017. Matt was President & CEO of the Terrorism Research Center/Total Intel from 1996-2009. For a full bio, please see www.devost.net

Best Security, Business, and Technology Books of 2017

In looking at advances in technology over the past year, I'm reminded of the Lenin quote “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen." It seems that to make the most ...

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The 2017 Red Teamer’s Bookshelf

"It’s been a couple of months since we first announced that Red Team Journal, Redteams.net, and OODALoop would be compiling the latest ‘Red Teamer’s Bookshelf’ jointly. For those of you who’ve been waiting, the list ...

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Our Science Fiction Cyber Future

"The cybersecurity industry is currently enamored with concepts of autonomous defense, including elements of machine learning, behavioral analytics, and artificial intelligence—and rightly so. Programed to be able to study all vulnerabilities in the public domain, ...

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The Ultimate Targeted Attack: Malvertisments

I've been in evil genius mode with Lou a few times on this. The advertising networks provide a tremendous amount of granularity that can be used for very focused attacks. For network defenders, ...

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10 Red Teaming Lessons Learned Over 20 Years

I've been a red teamer for twenty years now, perhaps even longer, but I didn't know what to call it until 1995 when I started working with the Department of Defense. I've also been fortunate ...

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Every Cyber Attacker is an Insider

I recently witnessed the CIO of a publicly traded company dismissing the results of a successful red team to the Board of Directors by stating that the "the test wasn't realistic as the red team ...

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Terrorism Reference CDROM

This CDROM was created as an academic research resource for those with an interest in terrorism and counterterrorism issues. This edition was developed in collaboration with the American Society for Industrial Security's (ASIS) National Capital ...

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InfoWar 1992-2012

Matt Devost and Winn Schwartau talk discuss what has happened in the information warfare and cyberconflict space over the past twenty years.

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Destruction and Creation

To comprehend and cope with our environment we develop mental patterns or concepts of meaning. The purpose of this paper is to sketch out how we destroy and create these patterns to permit us to ...

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