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Exponential innovation is causing exponential disruption

Analysis

This Election Season Stopping Misinformation Must Start at the Top

Recently, the United States government accused Russia of conducting sustained efforts to influence the 2024 election. If true, this is not surprising as election-timed influence operations gained notoriety in 2016 catalyzing the call to protect the election process and maintain their integrity. Russia was on the forefront (although China and Iran pursued their own activities and still do) via…
DOJ Election Threats Task Force Unseals Russian Election Interference Indictment and Seizes Cybersquatting Domains

In our recent Global Situational Awareness and Threat Vector Survey, we endeavored to send out an early warning signal regarding this unique time period – marked by a saturation of information warfare, social engineering, and ransomware activity, arguably propelled by the threat surface that is the information ecosystem driving the U.S. presidential election. Consistent with…
Quantum-Safe Encryption: A Critical Frontier for U.S. National Security

As we stand on the cusp of a new technological era, the race to secure our digital world has never been more urgent. Quantum computers, once the stuff of science fiction, are rapidly becoming a reality. While their potential to revolutionize fields like medicine and finance is immense, so too is their potential to upend…
A Failure of Imagination and Cognitive Biases: Where is the Truly Innovative Public/Private Partnership to Deliver Humanitarian Aid in Gaza?

What are the scenarios for a massive public/private partnership for delivery of essential humanitarian aid and the efficiency of aid distribution in conflict zones such as Gaza? To start, we provide some background in the form of first principles thinking and an overview of the potential stakeholders in this potential public/private partnership, including their capabilities…
Final Takeaways from Black Hat USA 2024 and DEFCON 32

One final curated post for the year of the insights and innovations we thought wold be of interest to our members and readership from the annual cybersecurity gatherings in Vegas.
Track the SpaceX Polaris Dawn Astronaut Mission Launch

You’ll have to get up early or stay up late, but SpaceX’s historic Polaris Dawn astronaut mission should be a success any day now. You can track the mission’s status here.
Shields Ready: Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience

CISA’s launched the Shields Ready campaign in late 2023 to complement the Shields Up! campaign, which we have featured many times here at OODA Loop – specifically on long holiday weekends when cyber-attacks are known to increase. Explore the CISA Shields Ready campaign here. And Shields Ready! as we head into day 2 of a…
Information Warfare, Social Engineering, and Ransomware: A Global Situational Awareness and Threat Vector Survey

In this post: a situational awareness and threat vector survey of information warfare, social engineering, and ransomware incidents and activities worldwide as of Friday, August 30, 2024 – including a very recent joint Cybersecurity advisory from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), and Department of Health and Human…
Hacking Blame Games Don’t Work – Will Anything?

A recent article raised an important acknowledgement in the world of global, state-driven cyber attacks: “the hacker blame game isn’t working anymore.”
A Record 27 Humanoid Robots Take Center Stage In Beijing

A curated sampling of video-based coverage by global media outlets of the 2024 World Robot Conference. A game-changing quantitative metric from the conference: a humanoid robot showcased at the event is operating at 20% efficiency relative to a human worker on an assembly line, with the Chinese manufacturer of the humanoid robot predicting that they…

OODAcasts

Cyber

Operational Cybersecurity Leader Cameron Over

May 5, 2020

Cameron Over leads the Cyber & Privacy service line at CrossCountry Consulting. Cameron has extensive past performance in cybersecurity, including experience advising organizations with transforming their cybersecurity and privacy programs. Cameron has been in the field of information security since the late 90’s. From mid-high school, she was exposed to early network discovery techniques while…
Cyber

Cybersecurity Icon Phil Reitinger, CEO of the Global Cyber Alliance

May 1, 2020

Phil Reitinger has been been a pioneer in cutting edge concepts for reducing risks in cyberspace for years. He was a special assistant US Attorney in the late 1990’s, a time when high end nation state attacks were on the rise and the application of US law to help counter threats was in a nascent…
Serial Entrepreneur Henry Harrison, CTO of Garrison, On Disrupting Adversary Attack Paths

April 29, 2020

In this episode of the OODAcast, Bob discusses the creative process and technology management approaches of Henry Harrison, CTO of Garrison Computing. Henry is a seasoned technology industry executive and serial entrepreneur who has spent the last ten years focused on cyber security both as an independent consultant and as Technical Director for Cyber Security at…
Quantum Security Practitioner Jane Melia of QuintessenceLabs

April 24, 2020

In this OODAcast we dive deep into topics of Quantum Computing, Quantum Security and best practices for ensuring your data remains safe even after quantum computers can break current asymmetric encryption methods. Our guest, Dr. Jane Melia of QuintessenceLabs, is a practitioner who has spent years helping create and bring to market advanced enterprise technologies.…
Tech

Former CIA CTO Bob Flores on Accelerating Technology Disruption

April 22, 2020

OODA CTO Bob Gourley was joined by former CTO of the CIA Bob Flores in a discussion on the state of enterprise technology, resulting in this next in our series designed to provide actionable insights to leaders in business and government. Bob is a member of the OODA Network and was one of the scheduled…
Cyber

Tony Cole On Deception In Cyber Operations

April 17, 2020

OODA CTO Bob Gourley was joined by Tony Cole of Attivo Networks in an interactive discussion on the state of cybersecurity, with a focus on how deception technologies can be leveraged by organizations of all sizes to mitigate risks. Tony is an icon in the cybersecurity community. He is known both as a practitioner and…
Tech

Lewis Shepherd on Government Mission Needs

April 14, 2020

In this second of a two part OODAcast, OODA CTO Bob Gourley was joined by Lewis Shepherd, seasoned federal technology executive and a senior director of technology strategy at VMware for an interactive discussion on the actionable lessons we should all be learning from the current crisis but also how the events of today are…
Cyber

David Bray On Today’s Global Risk Environment

April 7, 2020

This is part two of our series with Dr. David Bray of the Atlantic Council’s Geotech Center. This second of two parts covers questions businesses should be asking about today’s global risk environment and approach to knowing what comes next. The session is full of important advice on how to survive and thrive in and…
Authors, Tech

Dan Gerstein of RAND Corporation on The Story of Technology

March 27, 2020

OODA CTO Bob Gourley is joined by technologist and national security expert Dan Gerstein from Rand Corporation. Dan is also the author of the recently released book entitled “The Story of Technology”.