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The Art of InfoSec – Chapter 12

June 11, 2018 Faruk

The focus of Chapter 12, Incendiary attacks, may seem irrelevant in InfoSec, until we consider the role of the Podesta email and the DNC hacks.

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Posted in: Information Security and the Art of War Filed under: Cambridge Analytica, Commander, context, CTI, DNC, Facebook, hack, InfoSec, intelligence, Podesta, security, Sunzi, The Art of War, WannaCry

The Art of InfoSec – Chapter 6

March 17, 2018 Faruk

Chapter 6 – Weak Points and Strong Points – focuses on the methodological approach to war. The key takeaway is…

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Posted in: Information Security and the Art of War Filed under: Actionable, attribution, context, deterrence, InfoSec, magic-box, Sun Tzu, Sunzi, The Art of War

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 – 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

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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