The FDA Finally Suggests Meaningful Action to Secure Medical Devices
by James Scott, Sr. Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology [...]
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 [...]
“The Most Important Vote for the Internet in History” #SaveTheInternet
by James Scott, Sr. Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology [...]
America is Losing the Cyberwar: What’s Next for Our Cyber-Defense without an NSC Cybersecurity Coordinator?
by James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology [...]
What the Health Sector Needs to Know About Cryptocurrency Technologies, Blockchain, and Cryptojacking Attacks
by James Scott, Sr. Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology [...]
The Orangeworm Mystery Plaguing the Health Sector
by James Scott, Co-Founder and Sr. Fellow, ICIT The International [...]
ICIT Analysis: “Facebook Poses a Massive Risk to National Security: But It’s Worse than You Think…”
Dragnet surveillance capitalists turned dragnet surveillance propagandists remain under-controlled to [...]
What is Facebook’s Relationship with China and How Has U.S. Data Been Exposed?
by James Scott, Sr. Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology [...]
ICIT Introduces: The Center for Space Warfare Studies (CSWS)
People jest that space is the final frontier, unchartered territory, [...]
Why We Are No Longer on Facebook
by James Scott, Sr. Fellow ICIT, CCIOS, CSWS The detailed [...]
National Security Depends on the Utilization of the MGT Act
Nearly three-quarters of the $80 billion annually spent on [...]
ICIT Analysis: The CLOUD Act – Immediate Passage of the CLOUD Act Ensures Unambiguous Protection of Privacy and National Security
The CLOUD Act is meaningful bipartisan legislation that will empower [...]
ICIT Brief: Dispelling the Fear of IT Modernization
IT modernization is confounded by shoestring budgets, system incompatibilities, and [...]
National Security Officials Letter in Support of the Secure Elections Act
On February 20, 2018, twenty-one national security officials, including General [...]
Information Warfare: The Meme is the Embryo of the Narrative Illusion
Purchase Here Abstract Cogito ergo sum (I think, [...]
Hacking Cyborgs: By 2025, Non-Augmented Humans Will Be Obsolete. But There’s Bad News…
Download This Paper The human condition is plagued [...]
ICIT Analysis – Carbanak Threatens Critical Infrastructure: Cybercriminal APTs Merit Significant Investigation and Discussion
Carbanak, currently one of the most effective advanced persistent threats [...]
ICIT Introduces: Center for Cyber-Influence Operations Studies (CCIOS)
“This is an advisory that studies the weaponized digital applications [...]
Equifax: The Hazards of Dragnet Surveillance Capitalism Part 2: Just Another Data Breach? Or C-Suite Criminal Negligence?
The reckless handling of data collected in capitalistic dragnet surveillance [...]
ICIT Analysis – Equifax: America’s In-Credible Insecurity – Part One
A catastrophic breach of Equifax’s systems was inevitable because of [...]
Dragonfly is Nothing New: An Objective Assessment of this Energy Sector APT
by James Scott, Sr. Fellow, ICIT Show-of-force intelligence gathering and [...]
ICIT Analysis: The Graham-Klobuchar Amendment Can Secure Election Infrastructure
Election integrity is a non-partisan issue that merits significant bipartisan [...]
HHS’ HCCIC Takes a Quantum Leap Forward to Secure the Health Sector
HHS is aggressively working with industry to introduce organizational cybersecurity [...]
ICIT Publication: I Got 99 Problems But a Breach Ain’t One
Critical Infrastructure Information Security systems are failing under persistent adversarial [...]
ICIT Brief: Metadata – The Most Potent Weapon in This Cyberwar: The New Cyber-Kinetic-Meta War
Metadata, or “data about data,” is collected and recorded to [...]
ICIT Analysis: The Surveillance State & Censorship Legislation Conundrum: Dragnet Surveillance & Censorship Legislation Will Do Nothing to Eliminate Cyber Jihad & Lone Wolf Recruiting
Recent efforts by governments to weaken encryption, introduce exploitable vulnerabilities [...]
Next Generation Defenses for a Hyper Evolving Threat Landscape: An Anthology of ICIT Fellow Essays Volume I
Download Now The onslaught of attacks on our [...]
The Necessity of Encryption for Preserving Critical Infrastructure Integrity: Protecting Data At-Rest, In-Transit, and During-Processing with Format Preserving Encryption
The Necessity of Encryption for Preserving Critical Infrastructure Integrity: Protecting [...]
There’s Proof That North Korea Launched the WannaCry Attack? Not So Fast! – A Warning Against Premature, Inconclusive, and Distracting Attribution
By James Scott, Sr. Fellow, ICIT Last week, ICIT urged [...]
ICIT Analysis: America Exposed – Who’s Watching You Through your Computer’s Camera?
Virtually every computer, smartphone, and internet-enabled mobile device has a [...]
WannaCry Ransomware & The Perils of Shoddy Attribution: It’s the Russians! No Wait, It’s the North Koreans!
By James Scott, Sr. Fellow, ICIT Baseless Attribution Discussions Distract [...]
Recommendations for Preventing Ransomware Exploitation
By James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology [...]
ICIT Analysis: The Cyber Shield Act
Download Here Industry experts and federal agencies such [...]
ICIT Analysis: Sowing the Seeds of U.S. Cyber Talent
Download Here K-12 students are the most prevalent [...]
ICIT Analysis – S.J. Res. 34 – Introduction of Privatized Censorship
Download Now With S.J.Res.34, every citizen will have [...]
The Know Your Enemies 3.0 Advanced Persistent Threat Advisory is Finally Here!
We Connect the Dots between Nation State, Cyber Mercenary, Cyber [...]
ICIT Analysis: How to Crush the Health Sector’s Ransomware Pandemic
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Cybersecurity in Non-Profit and Non-Governmental Organizations
Download Here Non-Profit and Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) rely [...]
ICIT Analysis: Signature Based Malware Detection is Dead
Download Now Signature and behavioral based anti-malware are [...]
ICIT Brief: In 2017, The Insider Threat Epidemic Begins
Download Now Just as American and European critical [...]
Congressman Jim Langevin Receives the ICIT Transcend Award
From Left to Right: James Scott, Sr. Fellow, ICIT; [...]
ICIT Publication: Dragnet Surveillance Nation: How Data Brokers Sold Out America
Download Here With recent accusations of fake news [...]
It’s the Russians! … or Is it? Cold War Rhetoric in the Digital Age
by James Scott, Sr. Fellow, ICIT Introduction Malicious actors can [...]
ICIT Analysis: Identity and Access Management Solutions: Automating Cybersecurity While Embedding Pervasive and Ubiquitous Cyber-Hygiene-by-Design
Download Here Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions [...]
ICIT Publication – Rise of the Machines: The Dyn Attack Was Just a Practice Run
Download Now! As the adversarial threat landscape continues [...]
Overcoming Event Fatigue: ICIT Programs Offer a Platform for True Thought Leader Collaboration
by James Scott (Sr. Fellow, ICIT) & Parham Eftekhari (Sr. [...]
The Painfully Vulnerable Election System and Rampant Security Theater
by James Scott, Sr. Fellow, ICIT and Drew Spaniel, Fellow, [...]
DYN Attacks Exploit Old and Well Known Vulnerabilities
by James Scott, Sr. Fellow, ICIT and Drew Spaniel, Researcher, [...]
The Categorical Threat Landscape to Consider When Reading NASS’ Open Letter to Congress
Authored By: James Scott, Sr. Fellow, ICIT & Drew Spaniel, [...]
ICIT Analysis: Hacking Elections is Easy! Part 2: Psst! Wanna Buy a National Voter Database? Hacking E-Voting Systems Was Just the Beginning
Download The United States election process has been [...]
ICIT Brief – Your Life, Repackaged and Resold: The Deep Web Exploitation of Health Sector Breach Victims
Download Here Despite being the most at-risk and [...]
ICIT Analysis: Hacking Elections is Easy! Part One: Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures
Download Here! True democracy relies on the reliability [...]
ICIT Brief – The Energy Sector Hacker Report: Profiling the Hacker Groups that Threaten our Nation’s Energy Sector
Download Among our Nation’s critical infrastructures, the Energy [...]
ICIT Brief – China’s Espionage Dynasty: Economic Death by a Thousand Cuts
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ICIT Report: Utilizing the NSA’s CSfC Process- Protecting National Security Systems with Commercial Layered Solutions
Download The acceleration of State Sponsored and Mercenary [...]
ICIT Report: CISO Solution Fatigue – Overcoming the Challenges of Cybersecurity Solution Overload
Download Due to the plague of APTs, malware, [...]
ICIT Analysis: The Wound Collectors – Profiling the Self Radicalized Lone-Wolf Terrorist
Download Acts of domestic terrorism in the West [...]
ICIT Brief – The Anatomy of Cyber-Jihad: Cyberspace is the New Great Equalizer
Click to Download Until now it has been [...]
NIST SP 800-160: For the Rest of Us – An ICIT Summary
Click to Download This Report NIST Special Publication [...]
ICIT Brief: Combatting the Ransomware Blitzkrieg with Endpoint Security
Ransomware, the weaponization of encryption, has struck fear and confusion [...]
ICIT Bulletin: Cerber and KeRanger
Cerber and KeRanger are two of the latest Ransomware debacles [...]
The ICIT Ransomware Report: 2016 Will Be the Year Ransomware Holds America Hostage
Institute note: during our non-public soft distribution, we discovered that an incorrect, [...]
ICIT Analysis: FDA Guidance on Medical Device Cyber Security
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ICIT Brief: Hacking Healthcare IT in 2016: Lessons the Healthcare Industry can Learn from the OPM Breach
Among all of America’s critical infrastructures, the healthcare sector is [...]
ICIT Brief: Who’s Behind the Wheel? Exposing the Vulnerabilities and Risks of High Tech Vehicles
Congressional Briefing in support of ICIT's Brief held at [...]
ICIT Talking Points: “Is the OPM Data Breach the Tip of the Iceberg?” – for the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
Throughout June 2015, the United States Office of Personnel Management [...]
Legislative Brief “Moving Forward: How Victims Can Regain Control & Mitigate Threats in the Wake of the OPM Breach”
In June 2015, the Nation learned that the personnel records [...]
