SANS CTI 2017, Kyle Maxwell's 'Accurate Thinking: Analytic Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them' →

April 03, 2017 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Conferences, Education, Critical Thinking

Whom Done It →

January 01, 2017 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Alternate Attack Analysis, Control Systems, Critical Thinking, Cybersecurity Competence, Defense, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Warfare, Incident Handling, Information Security, Espionage, Cybersecurity

In what wraps up to be a superbly crafted screed penned by Glenn Greenwald, laboring at The Intercept; in which, the Good Mr. Greewald details the perceived falsehoods swirling about the alleged Russian Intelligence Services hacks of the Burlington Vermont electrical generation utility. Today's Must Read.

Analyze, Identify False Amazon Reviews

May 17, 2016 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Common Sense, Commerce, Critical Thinking

New, interesting analyzer site, targeting false Amazon reviews has appeared on our radar. Apparently legit, too.. Apparently, as the site also lists best products by the authenticity of the review. Grain, meet salt.

PhoneBoy's Existential Threat →

January 06, 2016 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Alternate Attack Analysis, Cybersecurity Competence, Cybersecurity Economics, Information Security, Critical Thinking, Defensive Security, Education

PhoneBoy's thought provoking post, noting the unpreparedness [from a defence perspective] of our society to cybersecurity threats. Quite obviously, today's Must Read.

Use of Secret Communications is an "Ancient Liberty"

July 21, 2015 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Communications, Communications Governance, Critical Thinking, Cryptography, Encryption, Intelligence, Information Security, Secrets

Presented for your consideration - a 1997 paper entitled The Use of Encrypted, Coded and Secret Communications is an "Ancient Liberty" Protected by the United States Constitution, published by the University of Virginia Journal of Law and Technology]*.

John Fraser III the author of this superlative screed (now an attorney in Washington, DC) presents his fascinating argument on encryption, and the 'ancient right' to utilize cryptographic artifacts in the course of communications, protected, of course, by our nations' Constitution. Today's Must Read.

...to the Battlements, Yonder!

June 16, 2015 by Marc Handelman in Alternate Attack Analysis, All is Information, Common Sense, Critical Thinking, Defending Networks, Electronic Warfare, Information Security, Offensive Infosec, Defensive Infosec

RAND Corporation, has published a not-entirely-surprising study targeting what appears to be the highly unsuccessful security postures of organizations under scrutiny. Entitled "The Defender's Dilemma: Charting a Course Toward Cybersecurity". Apparently, the notion of "Come And Take It" is not a particularly successful stratagem in modern electronic warfare...

Citation Libicki, Martin C., Lillian Ablon and Tim Webb. The Defender's Dilemma: Charting a Course Toward Cybersecurity. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2015. http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1024. Also available in print form.

Saturday Security Maxim

March 28, 2015 by Marc Handelman in Security Maxim, Information Security, Cogitation, Critical Thinking

High-Tech Maxim: The amount of careful thinking that has gone into a given security device, system, or program is inversely proportional to the amount of high-technology it uses. Comment: In security, high-technology is often taken as a license to stop thinking critically. - as compiled by Roger G. Johnston, Ph.D., CPP, Argonne National Laboratory