Reference: $499 Saves Millions — Stephen E. Arnold CyberOSINT Survey of Next Generation Information Access (NGIA) – Foreword by Robert Steele

An Arnold IT CORE Report for Law Enforcement, Security and Intelligence Professionals and Organizations This monograph has a single goal: Provide a Contracting Officer (CO) or Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative (COTR) — or the end-user engaged in investigatory work, military operations, and intelligence activities — with a collection of technology capability summaries about companies building …

Stephen E Arnold: Cyber Security: What Are You Doing?

Cyber Security: What Are You Doing? I read “A Federal Government Left Completely Blind on Cyber attacks Looks to Force Reporting.” The write up uses a phrase for which there are a limited number of synonyms in English; namely, completely blind. There are numerous types of blindness. There’s the metaphorical blindness of William James, who …

Stephen E. Arnold: How Are Those Cyber Security Vendors Performing?

How Are Those Cyber Security Vendors Performing? This sounds like old news. This is really new news. The trust outfit Thomson Reuters published “U.S. Government Probes VPN Hack within Federal Agencies, Races to Find Clues.” The main idea is that despite the amped up cyber security efforts, another somewhat minor issue has been discovered. The …

Stephen E. Arnold: Financial Warfare — China, Cyber, Russia, ATMs Down?

Financial Warfare: Another View of FinTech From an intelligence perspective, consider these questions: What’s the impact of the US printing dollars to cover Covid et al? What happens if China takes direct action to add Taiwan to its collection of entities? What happens if Russia annexes Ukraine? What happens if these events occur at the …

Stephen E. Arnold: SolarWinds Cyber-Security Bugs Proliferating?

Does This Mean Bad Actors Are Now Riding in 10,000 SolarWinds Powered Digital Sailboats? I read “Hackers Breaking into Networks without SolarWinds, CISA Says.” The write up states that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency offered: “Specifically, we are investigating incidents in which activity indicating abuse of Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) tokens consistent with …

Stephen E. Arnold: Unprofessional Irresponsibility: AI, Cyber-Security, & Algorithms Gone Wild . . .

Cyber Security: An Oxymoron Maybe? AI neural networks are only as smart as they are programmed and the technology is still in its infancy. In other words, AI neural networks are biased and make mistakes. This is not a problem now, especially when many AI neural networks are in the experimental stage; however, as the …

Stephen E. Arnold: SolarWinds Message – Cyber Is Not Safe

SolarWinds: One Interesting Message I read “Wave of Cyberattacks Exposes the Powerlessness of IT Security Chiefs.” With all the hoohah about cyber superiority from government officials and commercial enterprises, one troubling fact is clear: If the advanced systems could not detect the attack nor could top secret security systems monitoring possible bad actors, the defensive …