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  • Information – The Final Frontier of Cybersecurity

    Cyber trust is not just about securing information technology systems. You must also secure business processes.

  • Putin’s Cyber OODA Loop is Tighter Than Yours

    While hosting a delegation from France, Putin advised that to prevent cyber attacks, nations will have to establish international norms prohibiting such behavior. “This is what I can say about cyberattacks or war of words in the press and other issues. Action always causes reaction. Always. If one does not want to get a reaction…

  • Three Critical Factors Increasing Cyber Risk for 2019

    What cyber threat do China, Russia, and Iran present for the remainder of 2018 and 2019? Matt Devost provides some insight into the geopolitical elements influencing that answer.

  • Cliff Stoll Keynote

    Dr. Clifford Stoll, astronomer, professor, IT security pioneer and author of “The Cuckoo’s Egg,” discusses his ground-breaking work in IT security while at Berkeley, where he stumbled on an intrusion by hackers working on behalf of the KGB. Learn how cybersecurity began from the trailblazing researcher who invented some of the capabilities security professionals still…

  • Commanding the Trend: Social Media as Information Warfare

    This article demonstrates how social media is a tool for modern information-age warfare. It builds on analysis of three distinct topics: social networking, propaganda, and news and information sharing. Two case studies are used to show how state and non-state actors use social media to employ time-tested propaganda techniques to yield far-reaching results. The spread…

  • What did Cybersecurity and Cyberwar look like in 1999?

    Think all these news stories you are reading about cybersecurity, cyberwar, and cyberconflict are breaking new ground? It is worth taking a read through the several hundred entries meticulously compiled in Mich Kabay’s 1999 Infosec Year in Review which I recently found on an old drive while searching for other content. Some old new topics…

  • Trump: Accidental Nuclear Genius?

    Love him or hate him, when it comes to North Korea, Trump just may be frustratingly suited for nuclear negotiations. Unpredictability, emotional outbursts, irrationality, and other descriptors that have been applied to the sitting president are likely qualities a president should not have in general. According to Cold War-era nuclear deterrence theories, however, they may…

  • 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 sense of the top security and business trends you need to have a keen eye for advancements in AI,…

  • 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 is finally here. It’s larger than previous years, so we’ve organized the titles by category (and yes, some of these…

  • 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, autonomous bots (autbots)—not to be confused with bots simply conducting repetitive tasks like guessing default passwords as programmed—could take what…


OODAcasts

  • Decision-Making and Deep Tech with Laura Thomas: Insights from a Former CIA Officer
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    Decision-Making and Deep Tech with Laura Thomas: Insights from a Former CIA Officer

    In this episode of OODAcast, Bob Gourley interviews Laura Thomas, a deep tech consultant and former CIA officer. Laura discusses her journey from a small town in North Carolina to a career in the CIA, where she served as a case officer. She emphasizes the importance of critical thinking and decision-making under uncertainty, and how…

  • Leading Cyber Change: Allan Friedman on the Revolution of SBOM & Future Cybersecurity Initiatives

    Leading Cyber Change: Allan Friedman on the Revolution of SBOM & Future Cybersecurity Initiatives

    Allan Friedman is a senior strategist at CISA (the Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency) where he coordinates all of their cross-sector activities on the topic of SBOM: The Software Bill of Materials.

  • Joe Sullivan on Managing Complex Security Challenges

    Joe Sullivan on Managing Complex Security Challenges

    Joe Sullivan has been at the forefront of managing security risk in rapidly growing high tech companies over the past 20 years serving as the Chief Security Officer at Facebook from early start-up through the IPO, CSO of Uber and CloudFlare, and as a security leader at eBay/PayPal. Learn what motivates him and some of…

  • Joe Tranquillo on the Revolution in Biological Science
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    Joe Tranquillo on the Revolution in Biological Science

    Joe Tranquillo is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Bucknell University and a provost at the school. He is also and author and speaker with a knack for helping make new and at times complex subjects understandable. In this OODAcast we discuss many aspects of the revolution in biological sciences with Joe including topics like:…

  • MITRE Futurist Charles Clancy on our Quantum Enabled Future

    MITRE Futurist Charles Clancy on our Quantum Enabled Future

    Charles Clancy has successfully led technology efforts in government, industry, academia and continues to lead and innovate in his current position as Senior Vice President and GM of MITRE Labs. He is MITRE’s Chief Futurist. His role in technology leadership and his tracking of tech across multiple domains made for an incredibly insightful OODAcast. We…

  • Mark McGrath: John Boyd Is Far More Than The OODA Loop

    Mark McGrath: John Boyd Is Far More Than The OODA Loop

    Mark McGrath has applied the teachings of John Boyd to a career that began in the Marine Corps, included leadership positions in financial services firms and consulting with businesses with a need to learn to thrive in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) environments. He co-founded the consultancy AGLX and serves as its Chief Learning…

  • Serene – The Hacker Pianist Saving Cyberspace

    Serene – The Hacker Pianist Saving Cyberspace

    Serene is a hacker in the truest sense of the word. She’s applied a hacker mindset to learn coding, piano, and blend art and engineering in fascinating ways. You’ll find her collaborating on-stage with Grimes one night and coding censorship resistant technologies the next day. As a self-taught coder she was the first engineer hired…

  • Andy Bochman on Countering Cyber Sabotage

    Andy Bochman on Countering Cyber Sabotage

    Andy Bochman is the Senior Grid Strategist-Defender for Idaho National Laboratory’s National and Homeland Security directorate. In this role, Andy provides strategic guidance on topics at the intersection of grid security and climate resilience to INL leadership as well as senior U.S. and international government and industry leaders. Andy is a frequent speaker, writer, and trainer…

  • Spencer Ante on Creative Capital and Disruptive Innovation

    Spencer Ante on Creative Capital and Disruptive Innovation

    Spencer Ante is the author or “Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital”, which was on my Top 10 book list for 2022. In fact, I found Doriot’s story so compelling that a portrait of him hangs on the wall at the Hack Factory start-up studio in Reston, VA. Doriot is a…

  • Bob Zukis and the Digital Directors Network: Helping corporate boards mitigate systemic risk

    Bob Zukis and the Digital Directors Network: Helping corporate boards mitigate systemic risk

    Bob Zukis is a man on a mission to improve the ability of corporate America to succeed in a complex digital world, even when under constant cyber attack. Bob is the CEO and founder of the Digital Directors Network, the global pioneer in helping corporate directors advance their understanding of systemic risk. We consider Bob…

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