We continue to track notable convergences in the Global Gaming Ecosystem - like our recent analysis of North Korea’s ‘Moonstone Sleet’ hacking group using a fake tank game for ransomware attacks. In …
Cybersecurity Regulation Harmonization Need to Be Done Correctly, Not Quickly
In June 2024, the Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) released its report Summary of the 2023 Cybersecurity Regulatory Harmonization Request for Information, a government effort whose …
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An Overview of the NIST NVD Backlog Debacle: Cybersecurity Company Brought in on a Five-Year, $125M Contract to Assist
In February 2024, The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) attributed an increase in volume and structural changes in "interagency support” as the reasons behind a backlog of …
Framing Transparency as AI Races on Down the Road at Double Exponential Speed
AI Transparency is a concept centered on openness, comprehensibility, and accountability in technological systems. In the context of AI, transparency refers to the extent to which the inner workings …
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HHS Launches $50 Million ARPA-H Program to Improve Hospital Cybersecurity
In the wake of the Ascension and Change/United Healthcare ransomware attacks, The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) recently …
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The United States’ International Cyberspace and Digital Policy Strategy
At this year's RSA Conference a few weeks ago, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced the release of the United States’ International Cyberspace and Digital Policy Strategy - which we assume was …
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The State Department’s Cyber Strategy Seeks to Build Coalitions Against China
At the RSA cybersecurity conference, the Secretary of State announced the release of the Department’s new International Cyberspace & Digital Policy Strategy whose four goals are to …
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The Social Engineering Tactics of Ransomware-as-a-Service Operator Black Basta
Last week: another high-impact ransomware attack in the healthcare sector, this time on Healthcare Giant Ascension. The attack has been attributed to a Russian non-state actor Black Basta - a …
Hardware-Level Zero Trust and Quantifiable Assurance are the Future of Compute and the Global IT Supply Chain
In a fusion of a sub-theme from the OODA Almanac 2024 - Computation is the Ultimate First Principle - and several of the implications from our OODA Stratigame - Scenario Planning for Global Computer …
OODA Loop on the Road: Field Research at Several Notable Spring 2024 Conferences
The OODA Loop Team has been on the road this week, as we were invited by a few "communities of practice" to attend their annual conferences. Some are industry sectors, while most cut across all …