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Exponential innovation is causing exponential disruption

Author: OODA Analyst

Exponential innovation is causing exponential disruption

Analysis

OODA Network Interview: Bob Baxley

Dr. Bob has spent his life studying and manipulating and exploring the advanced nuances of signals processing. What he has been able to build at Bastille completely exposes the RF spectrum, making it easy to see and understand what is going on in your physical space. Read about his hard earned lessons, and where the…
OODA Network Interview: Cameron Forbes Over

There are not a lot of high schoolers that get an opportunity to intern at the Defense Information Systems Agency, but Cameron Forbes Over parlayed that experience into a decades long career as a cybersecurity profession currently running a robust practice at CrossCountry Consulting. “If executives don’t clearly understand the risk, he/she won’t make the…
Observations From America’s Most Public Cyber Attacks

The conduct of U.S. military cyber operations has significantly shifted—particularly in the last year. The Department of Defense’s newest cyber strategy, issued in September 2018, emphasizes a “persistent engagement” approach that moves the Department from a reactive state into a more proactive, assertive stance against national security threats in the cyber domain. This is also…
OODA Network Interview: Neal Pollard

Neal Pollard is the CISO of UBS and has steadily built his career to safeguard people and information in a time of terrorism and cyber threats. Neal knows that how we respond to a significant incident can be the difference between success and failure. Read about how he has honed his career to become an…
OODA Network Interview: Bobbie Stempfley

Bobbie Stempfley has made huge contributions to our national cyber defense efforts for three decades through leadership roles within DISA, DHS, and now as the head of the CMU CERT. In this interview, Bobbie highlights her path in the industry and provides insights for future security concerns and building resiliency into your technology and organization.…
What Kleptocratic Support for Cybercriminals Means for Russian Cybersecurity Services

The use of deniable actors is hardly unique to Russia, but the state’s complicity and even outright involvement in organized crime is. OODA’s reports “The Russian Threat” suggests that “Russia should be considered a kleptocracy, where the rule of law exists as long as it supports the objectives of the state and the ruling oligarchs.”…
Cybercriminals as the Russian State’s Deniable Proxies

Putin’s Russia has demonstrated a penchant for relying on proxies to provide a degree of deniability while pursuing its military objectives. As noted in Christoph Zürcher’s book The post-Soviet wars: Rebellion, ethnic conflict and nationhood in the Caucasus, Putin’s popularity emerged in large part due to his successful resolution of the conflict with Chechnya, which…
The Five Most Dangerous Criminal Organizations Acting As Proxies for the Russian State

The December 2016 “Grizzly Steppe” joint analysis report issued by the FBI and DHS provided a table of monikers attributable to various Russian cybercriminal organizations serving the state’s intelligence services. However, understanding what these names refer to is a challenge in and of itself. As noted by Florian Roth in a 2018 Medium article, similarities…
What We All Need To Know About The Impacts of A Truly Global Internet

Humans are more connected now than ever before. However, half the global population is behind on the digital revolution and there is great regional disparity in the availability of affordable Internet. While reports show a growth rate of one million new users a day from 2018-2019, approximately 3 billion people are still not connected. SpaceX,…
OODA Network Interview: Rama Polefka

Rama Polefka at Black Mountain Dynamics noticed a trend a long time ago: Young companies need a robust, powerful, secure IT infrastructure. But their founders are often so busy creating the company, the IT lags behind and compromises their growth. He has spent his career working with startups to grow their IT at exactly the right…

OODAcasts

Cyber

Bobbie Stempfley of Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute

June 12, 2020

The leadership team at OODA have had the pleasure of working with and learning from Bobbie Stempfley since her leadership of the Department of Defense Computer Emergency Response Team (DoD CERT) after she established it in the late 1990’s. This OODAcast captures insights from Bobbie that can inform the action of leadership of corporate and…
Intelligence

Marc Ambinder of USC Annenberg School For Communication and Journalism

June 5, 2020

Marc Ambinder is a journalist, researcher, historian, author of bestselling books and a teacher/mentor to many. We invited him on the OODAcast to help our community as we continue to look for insights that can drive operational decisions. For 20 years, Marc Ambinder has told true and complex stories about the world, revealed some of its…
Authors, Tech

Peter Singer on Burn-In

May 29, 2020

Burn-In is anchored in the realities we see all around us today. Artificial Intelligence is coming fast and changing the nature of many jobs, robots and automation are bringing tremendous new capabilities but also threatening humanity with loss of employment opportunities. Parenting in a world where everyone, including kids, are always connected is already changing…
Cyber, Intelligence

Congressman Will Hurd on AI, 5G, Cybersecurity Risk and Geopolitical Risk

May 27, 2020

In this OODAcast, OODA LLC CEO Matt Devost interviews Congressman Will Hurd in a wide ranging discussion that touches on issues of geopolitical risk, cybersecurity, cyber risk and ways to help ensure our nation is prepared to compete and win in an age of rapid technological innovation. Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Communications (5G) and…
Intelligence

Robert Fink of Palantir on Lessons Learned From Using Data In Crisis Response

May 21, 2020

Robert Fink is on the leadership team at Palantir, where he has helped shape their approach to product design and architecture. He has also played major roles in ensuring the company stays focused on the mission needs of customers today, and, through shaping R&D, is helping ensure the company is better able to serve the…
JC Raby On Creating Value in Disruptive Markets

May 20, 2020

We invited Boston Merdian’s co-founder and partner JC Raby on to the OODAcast do discuss his insights into the market today as well as his views on things companies can do to ensure they position themselves for the best possible transaction in the future. We also asked his advice for the strategic investor/buyer of firms…
Tech

Renowned Business Executive Scott McNealy, Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems, On Leadership

May 18, 2020

Scott McNealy was a co-founder and CEO of Sun Microsystems and has one of the longest-running tenures as the CEO of a Fortune 500 company in history. He was one of the few businessmen that played a critical role in the emergence of the Silicon Valley technology industry that exists today and is a highly…
CEO of Percipient Balan Ayyar on the OODA Loop in Business

May 15, 2020

Balan Ayyar is the Founder and CEO of Percipient.ai, a Silicon Valley based artificial intelligence firm focused on delivering products and solutions for the most pressing intelligence and national security challenges. We have been tracking this leader for years and have watched him inspire many to achieve great things. His leadership in senior officer roles…
Intelligence

Expert Practitioner of Analysis Carmen Medina on Mental Models and Cognitive Bias

May 13, 2020

Carmen Medina served 32 years in senior positions at the Central Intelligence Agency, most of which focused on one of the hardest tasks in the community, that of analysis. Carmen rose to lead the strategic assessments group for the agency, then was deputy director of intelligence, the most senior leadership position for analysis at the…
Cyber

Lou Manousos, CEO of RiskIQ, On Reducing Adversary Attack Paths

May 8, 2020

Elias (Lou) Manousos is a recognized expert in Internet security and fraud prevention. He has been developing and delivering enterprise protection technologies for more than 15 years. As CEO of RiskIQ, he has spearheaded a new approach that helps Internet, financial services, healthcare, media and consumer packaged goods companies protect their brands from online fraud.…