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  • OODA Special Report: How Drought In The US Should Impact Your Mid To Long Range Strategic Planning

    Much of the Western US is now officially in a drought. This post provides information business and government leaders should know about this including insights into how drought impacts key sectors of the economy. It also provides four scenarios that can be used for organizational strategic planning. It concludes with recommendations for business and government…

  • Biden Threw the Cyber Gauntlet – Be Careful What You Wish For

    In his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. President Joe Biden claimed to have presented his counterpart with a list of 16 red-line targets, ostensibly the critical infrastructure sectors that are listed on the Department of Homeland Security’s webpage.  Such sectors are considered vital to the United States, and any potential incapacitation or…

  • Potential Future Opportunities, Risks and Mitigation Strategies in the Age of Continuous Crisis

    Now more than ever, organizations need to apply rigorous thought to business risks and opportunities. In doing so it is useful to understand the concepts embodied in the terms Black Swan and Gray Rhino. This post examines both and leads to recommended action plans for any organization in government or business who seeks to mitigate…

  • Chinese Trolls Show That Information Can’t Be Stopped, Nor Should It Be

    Beijing has been engaged in a battle for public opinion for several years, aggressively promoting a positive vision of China to counter criticisms for its involvement in human rights violations, intellectual property theft, currency manipulation, its engagement with Taiwan and the South China Sea disputes, and its suspected involvement in the COVID-19 outbreak.  In 2017,…

  • The New Enterprise Architecture Is Zero Trust

    Enterprise technologists use the term “Zero Trust” to describe an evolving set of cybersecurity approaches that move defenses from static attempts to block adversaries to more comprehensive measures that improve enterprise performance while improving security. When the approaches of Zero Trust are applied to an enterprise infrastructure and workflows, the cost of security can be…

  • Sophisticated Cyber Espionage Exploits Russia and No One Says a Word

    In mid-May 2021, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB)’s National Coordination Center for Computer Incidentspublished a joint report with Rostelecom-Solar, the cybersecurity arm of Russian telecom company Rostelecom, about a 2020 cyber espionage campaign that targeted Russian government agencies.  The publicly-available portion of the report disclosed stealthy cyber operations that targeted key individuals associated with “the…

  • The Executive’s Guide To Mitigating The Ransomware Threat

    This is the second part of our special series on Ransomware. The first provided an update on the nature of the threat, including an anatomy of a modern attack. This post, produced with inputs from real world cybersecurity practitioners Matt Devost, Bob Flores, Junaid Islam and Bob Gourley, provides information for Corporate Board of Directors and…

  • Ransomware: The Present we Deserve?

    The scourge of ransomware is the inevitable result of decades of schizophrenia about our relationship with information technology and security. Treating this problem in the same fashion as we have those that came before it will only prolong our suffering. Clarity, creativity, and will are required if we are to have any hope of a…

  • Recent Iranian Cyber Attacks Show How Geopolitics Drive Cyber Activity

    A recent report has revealed that an Iranian threat actor group dubbed “Agrius” has been operating in Israel since 2020.  The group has been linked to cyber espionage activity and has quickly evolved into conducting destructive wiper malware attacks against Israeli targets.  What’ more, these attacks have been posing as ransomware attacks in order to…

  • Ransomware: An update on the nature of the threat

    The technology of ransomware has evolved in sophistication and the business models of the criminal groups behind it have as well. The result: The threat from ransomware has reached pandemic proportions. This post provides an executive level overview of the nature of this threat. This post is part of the OODA Cybersecurity Sensemaking series and…


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