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IO-Cyber Newsletter Vol 13 No 02
IO Newsletter
PDF: ARSTRAT_IO_Newsletter_v13_no_02
Articles in this issue:
1. Israel is Losing the PR War
2. Indonesia's Cyber Defense Strategy and Its Challenges
3. NATO War Games Set To Begin on November 16, 2012
4. Army Leaders Emphasize Importance of Cyberspace Capabilities
5. US Handoff in Afghanistan Includes Radio Training
6. China Most Threatening Cyberspace Force, U.S. Panel Says
7. Data Triage and the Cyber Age
8. Beyond Battleships and Bayonets
9. Cyber Response's Fatal Flaw: Mistrust
10. ‘Dagger' Brigade Electronic Warfare Office Named Best In Army
11. IPO, KC Chiefs Enter Training Partnership
12. Satellite Jammers Turned On
13. Another Tool in the Influencer's Toolbox: A Case Study
14. US Military behind Africa News Websites
15. Pentagon Propaganda Plan Is Source of Controversy
16. Panetta's Wrong About a Cyber ‘Pearl Harbor'
17. Why Is Israel Tweeting Airstrikes
18. Psychological Warfare on the Digital Battlefield
19. Testing Novel Effects of Ad Redesign on Customer Willingness to Pay
20. Taipei's Cyberwarfare Gambit
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Graphic: OSINT by InfoSphere (Overview)
Capabilities-Force Structure, Collection, Graphics, ICT-IT, Innovation, Processing, Strategy-Holistic Coherence, Tribes
Source: Email from CEO of InfoSphere SA (SE)
InfoSphere CEO Comment: We never talk OSINT.. We talk sourceinfo. This is the Infosphere view. Remote is what you do with your computer, phone, etc. Direct is when you collect on the ground. Covert or Overt – lines are blurry. The output is intelligence, the input data and information. We argue that HUMOSI SIGOSI, etc is a part of the game. When you monitor social media like twitter or look into a facebook profile with a fake profile –is that HUM or SIG or OSI Intelligence is defined by the output…
Phi Beta Iota: We include HUMINT-acquired handheld video and photos in IMINT, and we have a separate SIGINT column for HUMINT-enabled close-in SIGINT, but generally speaking this slide and the capabilities it represents are “best in class.” InfoSphere remains the only commercial intelligence provider we take seriously. Everyone else has practical, intellectual, ethical, or financial issues that in our view render less than full scope. Most governments do not do OSINT, they have an open source dribble into all-source that is largely comatose, the Nordics and Netherlands being the exceptions. InfoSphere SA is also the only company we have found that is truly able, over the past decade, to BOTH place people on the ground in any of 33 languages within 24-72 hours AND properly process, visualize, and deliver the full spectrum collection in an actionable form understandable by a consumer with a three color mind-set (red, yellow, green). See Also: SiloBreaker (search and analytics tool both free and for fee).
Graphic: OSINT by InfoSphere (Nation)
Capabilities-Force Structure, Collection, Graphics, ICT-IT, Innovation, Processing, Strategy-Holistic Coherence, Tribes
Source: Email from CEO of InfoSphere SA (SE)
InfoSphere CEO Comment: We never talk OSINT.. We talk sourceinfo. This is the Infosphere view. Remote is what you do with your computer, phone, etc. Direct is when you collect on the ground. Covert or Overt – lines are blurry. The output is intelligence, the input data and information. We argue that HUMOSI SIGOSI, etc is a part of the game. When you monitor social media like twitter or look into a facebook profile with a fake profile –is that HUM or SIG or OSI Intelligence is defined by the output…
Phi Beta Iota: We include HUMINT-acquired handheld video and photos in IMINT, and we have a separate SIGINT column for HUMINT-enabled close-in SIGINT, but generally speaking this slide and the capabilities it represents are “best in class.” InfoSphere remains the only commercial intelligence provider we take seriously. Everyone else has practical, intellectual, ethical, or financial issues that in our view render less than full scope. Most governments do not do OSINT, they have an open source dribble into all-source that is largely comatose, the Nordics and Netherlands being the exceptions. InfoSphere SA is also the only company we have found that is truly able, over the past decade, to BOTH place people on the ground in any of 33 languages within 24-72 hours AND properly process, visualize, and deliver the full spectrum collection in an actionable form understandable by a consumer with a three color mind-set (red, yellow, green). See Also: SiloBreaker (search and analytics tool both free and for fee).
Graphic: OSINT by InfoSphere (Company)
Capabilities-Force Structure, Collection, Graphics, ICT-IT, Innovation, Processing, Strategy-Holistic Coherence, Tribes
Source: Email from CEO of InfoSphere SA (SE)
InfoSphere CEO Comment: We never talk OSINT.. We talk sourceinfo. This is the Infosphere view. Remote is what you do with your computer, phone, etc. Direct is when you collect on the ground. Covert or Overt – lines are blurry. The output is intelligence, the input data and information. We argue that HUMOSI SIGOSI, etc is a part of the game. When you monitor social media like twitter or look into a facebook profile with a fake profile –is that HUM or SIG or OSI Intelligence is defined by the output…
Phi Beta Iota: We include HUMINT-acquired handheld video and photos in IMINT, and we have a separate SIGINT column for HUMINT-enabled close-in SIGINT, but generally speaking this slide and the capabilities it represents are “best in class.” InfoSphere remains the only commercial intelligence provider we take seriously. Everyone else has practical, intellectual, ethical, or financial issues that in our view render less than full scope. Most governments do not do OSINT, they have an open source dribble into all-source that is largely comatose, the Nordics and Netherlands being the exceptions. InfoSphere SA is also the only company we have found that is truly able, over the past decade, to BOTH place people on the ground in any of 33 languages within 24-72 hours AND properly process, visualize, and deliver the full spectrum collection in an actionable form understandable by a consumer with a three color mind-set (red, yellow, green). See Also: SiloBreaker (search and analytics tool both free and for fee).
Marcus Aurelius: New America Foundation Sucks Up – 10 [Paid For] Reasons a Woman Should Head CIA
Cultural Intelligence, Idiocy, Non-Governmental
Gag.
- By
- Tara Maller,
- New America Foundation blogged to CNN, November 21, 2012 |
A woman at the helm of the CIA wouldn't simply make another crack in the intelligence glass ceiling, it could effectively shatter it.
One of the most high-profile appointments President Obama will make in his second term is the director of the CIA. Here's a tip for the president: The time is ripe for the first woman to head the agency.
Choosing a woman isn't just about narrowing the intelligence community gender gap. It's also about drawing from the whole pool of talent to ensure the best national security apparatus and responding to Americans' apparent desire for more women in government. Here are the Top 10 reasons President Obama should name a woman as the next CIA director.
Review: Snow on the Golden Horn
5 Star, Fiction
Walt Breede
5.0 out of 5 stars As good as Nero Wolfe, Travis McGee, or Matt Helm,December 2, 2012
DISCLOSURE: the author was my boss in the Marine Corps, and one of three truly brilliant bosses I have had in my 60-year lifetime. I read this book in galley, but now that he has two other books out and I have the set, this is a good time to do something I rarely do, review a book of fiction (I read in 98 non-fiction categories, you can access all my reviews by category at Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog).
The author is a mathematics and operations research wizard (operations research is what the Navy used in WWII to anticipate submarine attacks and devise tactics that successfully drove the U-Boats from the sea). He is a US Naval Academy graduate who chose the Marine Corps, was the first Director of the Marine Corps Intelligence Center, and in retirement chose to teach high school mathematics and coach sports rather than cash in his clearances with beltway bandit work. I hold him in the very highest regard.
I should also mention that he was a defense attache in Turkey, back in the days when anesthesia for major medical for both men and women was a bottle of scotch, and I know from talking to him that quite a bit of each of his books is drawn from real-life experience with just a tad of embellishment (well maybe more than a tad). My point is that these three books are both engrossing, and connected to the real world.
I won't spoil the story line, and will just say that the protagonist represents the ideal man, the man every woman wants and every man envies, and as a former spy myself (the author was not, defense attaches are totally legal), I consider the protagonist to be the perfect citizen intelligence officer — action oriented, observant, brilliant, and prudent, and of course outrageously successful in the face of ably-described evil on every corner.
STRONGLY RECOMMENDED as holiday gifts and holiday reading!
The other two books are Altar Stone: An Alan Llewellyn Novel and Sanity Check, which will be listed on Amazon soon and will be the last of my reviews–and I will not repeat the above introductory material but will point back to this, the first book in what should be a six to ten book series.
