Twenty Days of Reserves

Twenty Days of Reserves

Planning for best case scenarios works great until a crisis hits.Factory Series Part 3: Twenty DaysI grew up in Norway, near Slagentangen. Esso’s refinery on the Vestfold coast — one of two refineries that processed Norway’s ...
5 Actions Critical for Cybersecurity Leadership During International Conflicts

5 Actions Critical for Cybersecurity Leadership During International Conflicts

 The recent military attacks involving Iran in the Middle East are a stark reminder that cybersecurity leadership must continually incorporate geopolitical risk into their enterprise cyber risk posture and preparedness.Every crisis that ...
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Hacktivists Strike Within Minutes of Israel Missile Attacks on Iran Nuclear Sites 

The cyber domain is a primary theater in the Israel-Iran conflict. Organizations across Israel must be aware and brace for a wave of sophisticated and ideologically driven cyberattacks ...
Security Boulevard

The Ramifications of Ukraine’s Drone Attack

You can read the details of Operation Spiderweb elsewhere. What interests me are the implications for future warfare: If the Ukrainians could sneak drones so close to major air bases in a ...

Drones and the US Air Force

Fascinating analysis of the use of drones on a modern battlefield—that is, Ukraine—and the inability of the US Air Force to react to this change. The F-35A certainly remains an important platform ...

The Future of Drone Warfare

Ukraine is using $400 drones to destroy tanks: Facing an enemy with superior numbers of troops and armor, the Ukrainian defenders are holding on with the help of tiny drones flown by ...

Smartphones and Civilians in Wartime

Interesting article about civilians using smartphones to assist their militaries in wartime, and how that blurs the important legal distinction between combatants and non-combatants: The principle of distinction between the two roles ...
Lips: A Looseness, Thereof

Lips: A Looseness, Thereof

Well, there you have it: A resurgence of World War II era loose-lip stupidity - this time attached to a criminal hacking campaign by certain hackster entities (EvaPiks) sharing too much data ...
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Dark Web Two-Step

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Jason Rivera (a Director at CrowdStrike) and Wanda Archy (a Supervisor in RSM's security practice, targeting the Dark Web), writing at Small Wars Journal, in a remarkable tour de force of darkness ...
Gerhard Jacob's 'Taking Stock: The Internet of Things and Machine Learning Algorithms at War'

Gerhard Jacob’s ‘Taking Stock: The Internet of Things and Machine Learning Algorithms at War’

Image Credit , Israeli Defense Forces, The IDF Desert Rreconnaissance Battalion Training Exercises Terrific blog post by Gerhard Jacobs, writing at the Imperva Cybersecurity blog, and discussing IoT and ML with Gilad ...