Crushing Protectionist Silos to Expedite Tech Industry Niche Evolution: Using Social Media to Curate and Disseminate Information

by Drew Spaniel, Researcher, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology The digital threat landscape is comprised of organization-centric asymmetric warfare theaters populated by innumerable hyper-evolving sophisticated and unsophisticated adversaries with myriad motives, tools, techniques, and procedures. As trite as it sounds, it remains true now more than ever that “knowledge is power.” However, in the Digital .. read more

ICIT Brief: In 2017, The Insider Threat Epidemic Begins

Just as American and European critical infrastructure executives were beginning to wrap their minds around the devastation of the Office of Personnel Management breach, ransomware erupted onto the scene, followed by concentrated DDoS attacks such as the Mirai botnet attack on Dyn, which enabled a quantum leap for cyber criminals.  Now, all techno-forensic indicators suggest .. read more