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Rethinking CTI – Actionable Classical Terminology

May 14, 2017 Faruk

Part 5 of Rethinking CTI
Building off of the Classical Chinese Context, this section introduces 5 classical terms and connects them to actionable CS and CTI ideas.

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Posted in: CTI Filed under: China, context, CS, CTI, Dao, language, terminology

Rethinking CTI – Classical Chinese Context

May 10, 2017 Faruk

Part 4 of Rethinking CTI
As a worldview radically different from the West, Chinese thought must be approached carefully – or we run the risk of improperly understanding and applying its ideas. We begin with core language ideas, on which all later concepts will build.

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Posted in: CTI Filed under: Actionable, China, CS, CTI, Dao, language, Process

Rethinking CTI – The Classical Chinese Approach

May 2, 2017 Faruk

Part 3 of Rethinking CTI
Where the traditional warfare model ended in a failed analogy, the classical Chinese model offers a lot of potential value. Examination of five key points suggests that developing this model may prove very useful.

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Posted in: CTI Filed under: China, Confucius, context, CTI, cyber-war, demonstration, deterrence, potential, Sun Tzu, Sunzi, war

Rethinking CTI – Problems of the Warfare Position

April 27, 2017 Faruk 1 Comment

Part 2 of Rethinking CTI
Cyber-warfare and CTI are to traditional warfare what chess is to snakes and ladders: both play out on a grid, but that’s where the similarities end. By understanding the underlying problems behind the failed analogy, the requirements for the new system emerge.

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Posted in: CTI Filed under: chess, CTI, cyber-war, deterrence, military paradigm, retaliation

Rethinking CTI

April 23, 2017 Faruk 3 Comments

Part 1 of Rethinking CTI
The traditional military warfare model is a common analogy to cyber-warfare and CTI. However, the analogy suffers from four fatal flaws, and is entirely incoherent.

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Posted in: CTI Filed under: asymmetry, attribution, CTI, cyber-war, deterrence, incompatibility, retaliation, war

Security is not a Product

April 21, 2017 Faruk 2 Comments

Presenting Information Security as a product feeds into a dangerously false narrative., which undermines the future of security. Changing perspectives helps to correct some misconceptions, and also improves the functionality of security.

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Posted in: General Filed under: context, false narrative, magic-box, wu-wei, zhengming

Dangers of a False Narrative

Faruk 3 Comments

Popular misconceptions about what cyber security is and what it does, have established a dangerously false narrative for the future of cyber security, and created several critical problems

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Posted in: General Filed under: context, false narrative, magic-box, torture

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