In this OODA Loop Q&A with OODA Network Expert Kristin Del Rosso, we discuss her presentation last year at labscon.io 2022 in Scottsdale, AZ, entitled “Is CNVD ≥ CVE? A Look at Chinese Vulnerability Discovery and Disclosure.” Del Rosso is a product manager at Sophos focusing on Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, and the SecOps ecosystem. Previously, she was an analyst on Lookout Mobile Security’s Threat Intelligence team, focusing on reversing Android surveillance software, and tracking threat actors and their infrastructure.

The growing use and reliance on complex digital business systems is exacerbating cyber-risk, a systemic risk to your business, one which can result in serious, perhaps even existential damage. The interactions of information and technology have evolved from segmented IT functions into the central nervous systems controlling the most vital assets and systems of your business. Cyber-risk threatens these systems. Boards realize this is a major problem but are challenged by its enormity and complexity to find a path to better governance. Instead, they often retreat to a false sense of security offered by a “check-the-box” solution. However, the “whack-a-mole” feeling soon returns and persists-the feeling that more should be done. But how to do it?

As a prelude to the launch of the OODA Loop Exponential Innovation Series, the following is a compilation of insights and resources related to our research on Exponential Disruption to-date.

Based on the strength of the insights garnered over the course of 2022 from the research theme of Exponential Disruption, our new OODA Loop Series,  Exponential Innovation, will pivot and “drill down” on the technical, organizational, and market-driven structures driving these disruptions – with a focus on emerging technologies, deep-tech, tough-tech, and advanced technologies. This research is all in the context of this year’s overall theme  – Jagged Transitions  -which is meant to invoke the challenges inherent in the adoption of disruptive technologies while still entrenched in low-entropy old systems and in the face of systemic global community threats and the risks of personal displacement.

We recently featured a three-part series based on a report by Charlie Parton and Dr.  Samantha Hoffman.  In the shadow of the Chinese surveillance balloon/national security threat which played out last week, CBS News Weekender picked up the OODA Loop series based on the report – and arranged an interview with Charlie to discuss the details of the white paper: “A new OODA report warns that Chinese-manufactured microchips embedded in smart devices such as fridges and laptops pose a threat to U.K. national security. The author of the report, Charles Parton, joined CBS News to discuss how such microchips could also impact U.S. national security.”

Find the CBS interview and the OODA Loop series, with a link to the complete report, here.