Security in a Time of Austerity

The steadily unfolding COVID-19 pandemic continues to unleash chaos and uncertainty in tandem with the disease’s impacts on human health. In just the past few days, total US new unemployment numbers for the past two weeks increased by over 10 million people, the price of crude oil continues to crash, Read more

Active Defense and Adversary Blowback

I previously recorded some thoughts on the new US government strategy in cyber defense known as “defend forward”. Recently, I had the pleasure and opportunity to take part in a Naval War College exercise implicitly testing this strategy’s implementation and execution in the context of civilian critical infrastructure cyber operations. Read more

Deterrence, Attribution, and Legalism

The past several weeks have been an exciting time in the realm of cyber security – and especially the more narrow, less understood field of (potential) “cyber war”. Starting approximately two weeks ago (writing on 25 June 2019), there began a bombardment of news, with reports that: The XENOTIME activity Read more