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  • 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

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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…

  • Scythe CEO Bryson Bort on Enhancing Security with Realistic Adversary Emulation

    Scythe CEO Bryson Bort on Enhancing Security with Realistic Adversary Emulation

    Bryson Bort is the Founder of SCYTHE, a start-up building a next generation attack emulation platform, and GRIMM, a boutique cybersecurity consultancy. He is widely known in the cybersecurity community for helping advance concepts of defense across multiple critical domains. He is the co-founder of the ICS Village, a non-profit advancing awareness of industrial control…

  • Trond Undheim on the Future of Technology and a Framework for Analyzing Forces of Disruption

    Trond Undheim on the Future of Technology and a Framework for Analyzing Forces of Disruption

    Trond Undheim is a futurist, investor, consultant, executive, speaker, entrepreneur and podcaster. He produces widely impactful podcasts: Futurized, which tracks the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics and the environment, and Augmented, which reveals stories behind the new era of industrial operations.

  • Jeremy King on the greatest leaders he has ever seen (and how we can all keep learning leadership)

    Jeremy King on the greatest leaders he has ever seen (and how we can all keep learning leadership)

    Jeremy King is a trusted advisor to corporate boards and some of the nation’s most elite business leaders. He is also a serial connector helping move business information on opportunities at the intersection of talent, capital, entrepreneurs and business development. Jeremy is an entrepreneur himself, creating successful executive search firms and also a game-changing non-profit…

  • Ben Ford, Founder of Commando Development, on the OODA Loop and Tech Leadership

    Ben Ford, Founder of Commando Development, on the OODA Loop and Tech Leadership

    Ben Ford is the founder of Commando Development, a firm which leverages his deep background and experience in enterprise IT as well as his years in service as a Royal Marine to the benefit of technology teams in startups and large enterprises. In this OODAcast we discuss Ben’s views on the history of Commando’s, from…

  • Matt Devost on Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Succeeding in Competitive Environments

    Matt Devost on Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Succeeding in Competitive Environments

    OODA CEO Matt Devost has a track record of executing on innovation via entrepreneurship. You may also know him as the Co-Host of the OODAcast or perhaps through his role as a technologist and international security expert. He has extensive past performance in cybersecurity, counterterrorism, critical infrastructure protection, intelligence, and risk management issues.

  • Jim Clapper Shares Wisdom From A Career in Operational Intelligence
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    Jim Clapper Shares Wisdom From A Career in Operational Intelligence

    Security, Risk Management and Intelligence professionals all know of Jim Clapper, this week’s OODAcast guest. He had a long and distinguished career in the US Air Force, which included leadership spanning the Vietnam era all the way to the end of the Cold War. By the time he retired he was a three star General,…

  • Ray Wang, CEO and Founder of Constellation Research, On The Business Impact of Technology
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    Ray Wang, CEO and Founder of Constellation Research, On The Business Impact of Technology

    In this week’s OODAcast we interview Ray Wang, CEO of Constellation Research. Ray is a great leader, evidenced by the people he has attracted to his firm. I know many of his team and can say for a fact that they are people who can do just about anything they want (which means they are…

  • Lisa Porter On Innovation, Technology, Security and Lessons in Leadership

    Lisa Porter On Innovation, Technology, Security and Lessons in Leadership

    Lisa J. Porter has successfully lead some of the world’s largest and most critical technology efforts. Her career started with a focus on academic rigor in pursuit of some of the toughest degrees, a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from MIT and a PhD in Applied Physics from Stanford. She would later lecture at MIT and…

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