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Exponential innovation is causing exponential disruption

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Exponential innovation is causing exponential disruption

Analysis

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    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…

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    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

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  • A Failure of Imagination and Cognitive Biases: Where is the Truly Innovative Public/Private Partnership to Deliver Humanitarian Aid in Gaza?

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  • 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. 

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  • 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

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    In this OODAcast we examine lessons learned as a startup founder and insights into the future of technology with Amr Awadallah. Amr Awadallah is widely known as a founder of Cloudera. Prior to that he was working on extreme scale data solutions for Yahoo. Most recently he was VP for Developer Relations at Google Cloud.…

  • Sir David Omand on Leveraging How Spies Think In Our Business and Personal Lives
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    Sir David Omand on Leveraging How Spies Think In Our Business and Personal Lives

    Sir David Omand is one of the most respected intelligence professionals in the world and author of the book How Spies Think: Ten lessons in intelligence. His career in intelligence began shortly after graduating from Cambridge in 1969 when he joined the UK’s GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters). He would later become the director of GCHQ.…

  • Jessica Gulick: An accomplished cybersecurity practitioner turned CEO on future focused leadership

    Jessica Gulick: An accomplished cybersecurity practitioner turned CEO on future focused leadership

    Jessica Gulick is widely known for her leadership of the successful growth strategy and marketing firm Katzcy. She is also the Commissioner of the US Cyber Games, a multi-phased cybersecurity program recruiting a US Cyber Team for international competition. She is also the founder of PlayCyber, a new business line promoting cyber games and tournaments.…

  • Lance Mortlock On Scenario Planning to Drive Strategic Decisions

    Lance Mortlock On Scenario Planning to Drive Strategic Decisions

    Lance Mortlock is a Senior EY Strategy Partner. He is author of the book Disaster Proof: Scenario Planning for Post Pandemic Future, which explores ways scenario planning can help organizations be more resilient. This is a must-read book for anyone in the Risk Management field. It provides practical advice for strategists, planners, executives and board…

  • Jer Thorp on Living in Data and Creating Better Futures

    Jer Thorp on Living in Data and Creating Better Futures

    Each year, there are one or two books that deeply resonate with me and become sticky in that I’m thinking about the book often, bringing it up in conversations, and sending out unsolicited recommendations for executives and researchers in my network to check it out. Jer Thorp’s “Living in Data: A Citizen’s Guide to a…

  • Tony Tether On Technology Leadership and Lessons Learned From DARPA

    Tony Tether On Technology Leadership and Lessons Learned From DARPA

    Dr. Tony Tether was the director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA, from 2001 till his retirement in 2009. In this OODAcast we examine some of Dr. Tether’s formative experiences, including a very unique job he held while awaiting entry to Stanford. He was a door to door salesman and while doing that…

  • Cofer Black on Leadership Lessons Learned and Speaking Truth to Power

    Cofer Black on Leadership Lessons Learned and Speaking Truth to Power

    In this OODAcast, we talk with renowned counter-terrorism expert and career clandestine services professional Cofer Black. Cofer is best known for having been the Director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center on 9/11 and having been part of the intelligence community warning about the near-term threat of terrorism in the United States prior to the attacks.…

  • Gaurav Banga On Mitigating Cyber Threats Through Deep Insight Into Things That Matter Most

    Gaurav Banga On Mitigating Cyber Threats Through Deep Insight Into Things That Matter Most

    Gaurav Banga is the Founder and CEO of Balbix, and serves on the boards of several companies. Before Balbix, Gaurav was the Co-founder & CEO of Bromium and led the company from inception for over 5 years. Earlier in his career, he served in various executive roles at Phoenix Technologies and Intellisync Corporation, and was…

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    Kim Zetter on Understanding the Realities of Cyberthreats and How Code Has a Story to Tell

    This week’s OODAcast is with Kim Zetter, an incredibly well respected journalist who has been covering cybersecurity related issues for two decades.  Matt Devost talks with Kim about a wide variety of cyber-related issues including a deep dive into Stuxnet and the implications for today’s security environment. Kim also shares details as to how she…

  • Junaid Islam on Zero Trust Architecture

    Junaid Islam on Zero Trust Architecture

    In this OODAcast we provide insights into Zero Trust architectures from an experienced practitioner, Junaid Islam. Junaid is a senior partner at OODA. He has over 30 years of experience in secure communications and the design and operations of highly functional enterprise architectures. He founded Bivio Networks, maker of the first gigabyte speed general purpose…

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