KLEPTOCRACY AND RUSSIAN CYBERCRIMINALS The use of deniable actors is hardly unique to Russia, but the state’s complicity and even outright involvement in organized crime is. OODA’s reports “The …
Cybercriminals as the Russian State’s Deniable Proxies
Putin’s Russia has demonstrated a penchant for relying on proxies to provide a degree of deniability while pursuing its military objectives. As noted in Christoph Zürcher’s book The post-Soviet wars: …
Continue Reading about Cybercriminals as the Russian State’s Deniable Proxies
The Five Most Dangerous Criminal Organizations Acting As Proxies for the Russian State
The December 2016 “Grizzly Steppe” joint analysis report issued by the FBI and DHS provided a table of monikers attributable to various Russian cybercriminal organizations serving the state’s …
OODA Special Report: The Kinetic Potential of Russian Cyber War
Introduction to the Kinetic Potential of Cyber Operations The proliferation of cyber physical systems (CPS) has increasingly enabled cyber actions to have direct kinetic effects on tangible …
Continue Reading about OODA Special Report: The Kinetic Potential of Russian Cyber War
The Key to a Defensible Cyberspace – A Look at the Work of Jason Healey and the NY Cyber Task Force
Though New York is one of 23 states to establish an official cybersecurity task force through executive order or legislation, the Governor’s Cybersecurity Advisory Board should not be confused with …
Is There An Emerging Global Food Industry Resiliency Crisis?
It is a truism that every society is only a few meals away from revolution, proven not for the first time when high food prices initiated the Arab Spring, and yet food security is a woefully neglected …
Continue Reading about Is There An Emerging Global Food Industry Resiliency Crisis?