A recent report published by The Washington Post revealed how China is aggressively using advanced software to surveil popular social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook, among others, in order …
A Joint Cybersecurity Advisory from CISA, FBI and NSA: Russian State-Sponsored Cyber Threats to U.S. Critical Infrastructure
As we have mentioned a few times here at OODA Loop, we are very discerning in our amplification of US-CERT e-mail notifications. Emergency Directives and Joint Cybersecurity Advisories (CSAs) are the …
Ben Dubow on Detecting and Countering Malign Influence Operations
Ben Dubow is CTO and founder of Omelas, a firm that provides data and analysis on how nations manipulate the web to achieve their geopolitical goals. He has a background in research on Russian and …
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Context On The Nature of Web 3.0
What is Web 3.0? This question is not rhetorical. To provide context we will start with some background. Internet 1.0 and Web 2.0: An Anecdotal History Many OODA Network members date their …
The ASML Holding’s Factory Fire and Specialized Manufacturing Equipment for Semiconductor Production
https://youtu.be/Bm1RTbrMMAc Video Source: IBD The OODA Loop News Brief Team surfaced a story earlier today - Fire at vital tech factory could worsen global computer chip shortage - which we thought …
Looking at IP Theft as a Cyber Criminal Offering
A recent article suggests that legitimate businesses have lost the fight against cyber-crime, applied defensives and cyber security strategies have ultimately failed to secure networks, and prevent …
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Google Cloud and Recorded Future Begin New Year with Data Intelligence/Security Operations Acquisitions
Cybersecurity professionals are not looking for a silver bullet. And even if the marketplace was under the delusion that there was such a thing as a cure-all for all of its woes, the level of …
The Next Phase of the DARPA Electronics Resurgence Initiative (ERI): The Joint University Microelectronics Program 2.0 (JUMP 2.0)
Last year, we offered an analysis of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) track record of success with semiconductor innovation in collaboration with academia and the private …
National Cognitive Infrastructure Protection: What Can We Learn from the Swedish Psychological Defence Authority?
In 2019, in what now reads like a strikingly prescient premonition, OODA CTO Bob Gourley penned a two-part series on the neglect of our national Cognitive Infrastructure: America's Most Critical …
Top 10 OODAcasts Episodes of 2021
We started the OODAcast as a way of highlighting insights and lessons learned from leaders and decision-makers in the OODA Network including former intelligence community leaders and operators. With …