The Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community is an unclassified report released each year concurrent with Congressional testimony to Congress by the Director of National …
Are PSYOPS in Cyberspace a Viable Tool Against Adversaries?
A recent article revealed that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) would try to counter prolific ransomware gangs beyond using cyber responses, and also include psychological warfare …
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HHS Launches $50 Million ARPA-H Program to Improve Hospital Cybersecurity
In the wake of the Ascension and Change/United Healthcare ransomware attacks, The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) recently …
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The United States’ International Cyberspace and Digital Policy Strategy
At this year's RSA Conference a few weeks ago, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced the release of the United States’ International Cyberspace and Digital Policy Strategy - which we assume was …
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The State Department’s Cyber Strategy Seeks to Build Coalitions Against China
At the RSA cybersecurity conference, the Secretary of State announced the release of the Department’s new International Cyberspace & Digital Policy Strategy whose four goals are to …
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The Social Engineering Tactics of Ransomware-as-a-Service Operator Black Basta
Last week: another high-impact ransomware attack in the healthcare sector, this time on Healthcare Giant Ascension. The attack has been attributed to a Russian non-state actor Black Basta - a …
Hardware-Level Zero Trust and Quantifiable Assurance are the Future of Compute and the Global IT Supply Chain
In a fusion of a sub-theme from the OODA Almanac 2024 - Computation is the Ultimate First Principle - and several of the implications from our OODA Stratigame - Scenario Planning for Global Computer …
Beijing Takes Another Jab at U.S. Cyber Operations
Recently, China’s Cybersecurity Industry Alliance (CCIA) published a report in an effort to further expose the suspected hegemonic practices and “bullying” behavior of the United States in …
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NSA Artificial Intelligence Security Center – and Global IC Partners – on Deploying Secure AI Systems
This Cybersecurity Information Sheet (CSI) is the first of its kind release from the NSA Artificial Intelligence Security Center (AISC) - "intended to support National Security System owners and …
The State of the Space Industrial Base
Along with the two other baseline strategic documents we have featured here - Space Force's Inaugural U.S. Commercial Space Strategy and DoD’s Commercial Space Integration Strategy - the State of the …
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