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The Cognitive Crucible is a forum that presents different perspectives and emerging thought leadership related to the information environment. The opinions expressed by guests are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of or endorsement by the Information Professionals Association. During this episode, Steve Hunnewell of Premise Data discusses geopolitical risk in Asia and the grey zone. Our conversation covers the rise of China and its implications for the global order, the growing strategic competition between China and the United States in Asia, the concept of hybrid warfare and how China and other countries use it, and the need for better integration of commercial solutions and implications for operations in the information environment. Research Question: Steve Hunnewell suggests an interested student examine the following: assess the “infinite game” and assess our positions of advantage? How do we better integrate commercial solutions, public-private partnerships, etc to create an in-depth approach to creating resiliency? Resources: Cognitive Crucible Podcast Episodes Mentioned #150 Jill Goldenziel on China and the Philippines #166 John Agnello on Information Advantage Persuade or Perish by Wallace Carroll Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World by Alex Joske Link to full show notes and resources Guest Bio: Before joining Premise Data, Steve Hunnewell was the Director of the Information Office for the United States Indo-Pacific Command. In this unique role, he served as the inaugural senior executive for strategic communications guidance and strategy, which focused on using data to improve the command's ability to engage within the information domain. Hunnewell's previous public service supported a wide range of special operations, diplomatic, and strategic communications issues throughout the U.S. government, including serving as a Strategic Advisor for Information Operations on the NATO ISAF Counterinsurgency Advisory & Assistance Team (CAAT), U.S. DoD liaison for Afghan Reconciliation & Reintegration to the U.K. Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO) & the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GIRoA); with additional roles and assignments in Ukraine, the Levant, Latin America, and Asia. Hunnewell also has extensive experience in the private sector. He has held leadership positions at technology firms such as Novetta and Two Six Technologies. In these roles, he has worked on various issues, including leading product innovation and developing solutions that identify events, rhetoric, and behavior patterns, thus yielding actionable insights into relationships between messengers, messages, and audiences. Steve's graduate studies and degrees include an MBA from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College and international affairs at The Fletcher School at Tufts University. About: The Information Professionals Association (IPA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to exploring the role of information activities, such as influence and cognitive security, within the national security sector and helping to bridge the divide between operations and research. Its goal is to increase interdisciplinary collaboration between scholars and practitioners and policymakers with an interest in this domain. For more information, please contact us at communications@information-professionals.org. Or, connect directly with The Cognitive Crucible podcast host, John Bicknell, on LinkedIn. Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, 1) IPA earns from qualifying purchases, 2) IPA gets commissions for purchases made through links in this post.
Accenture Federal Services has used acquisitions to transform itself and sees its purchase of Novetta as yet another opportunity to reimagine the way it operates.This episode of Project 38 is a deep dive into the journey company no. 13 on our 2022 Top 100 rankings is now on as told by Tiffanny Gates, former Novetta CEO and now AFS' national security portfolio leader; and Ira Entis, growth and strategy leader.They update WT Editor Nick Wakeman on how the integration has gone, what's changed about the combined business, and the opportunities and challenges they see ahead.Some market trends are driven by technology and others by evolving customer missions. Government customers want to make better and faster decisions. That desire drives decisions around data, technology and processes.
On today’s show, host Gretchen Bliss, the Cyber-Security Director at Pikes Peak College, digs deep, bringing a unique perspective into the roles of females in the industry. She is joined by co-host Dr. Mary Graft. The two interview Amanda Windle, the vice president of The Cyan Group - a group that specializes in personal and corporate cyber-security from an awareness of your existing footprint and lessening of your future footprint. Windle also works as a Senior Capture Manager at Novetta - an advanced analytics company that applies advanced analytic methods to a number of problems specifically for cybersecurity for the government and intelligence community. Together, the team digs deep into Mindle’s path into cyber-security as a woman and the different routes that took her there after leaving The Army. They also take about the skill set women in specific need to be successful to be successful and the difficulties women may face in this industry. Windle goes into detail about the many projects she has had her hand in while in cybersecurity, including a project that involved tracking Ebola in Africa. She also speaks about what she’d like to see change in the industry for women and how to gain confidence as a female in a male dominant career. Visit our sponsors: Cyber Resilience Institute Internet Broadcasting Network BlockFrame Inc. SecureSet Academy Murray Security Services
The cybersecurity industry continues to whine and cry about not having enough talent from which to source their InfoSec employees. Indeed, there are challenges in this space that need to be addressed; there’s no questioning that. But are organizations approaching this challenge the wrong way? Are they doing things, using things, and missing things that are putting them in this position? Are they hurting themselves rather than rising to the challenge in a way that puts the candidates and employees at the front of the story? Marco Ciappelli and Sean Martin had the opportunity to chat with Kirsten Renner from Novetta and of Car Hacking Village fame. As a long-time recruiter, Kirsten suggests that we may be leveraging processes and technologies to our disadvantage, forgetting about the human element of the whole process. To sum it up: Kirsten says recruiting companies, hiring managers, and their extended recruiting team needs to “Ask the right questions and then shut up and listen.” Here are some of the things discussed in this episode: - How and where should you be looking — and participating — to find InfoSec talent? - Who is involved in the hiring process? Is everybody on the same page and participating in the process with the human element at the forefront of the program? - Are you asking the right questions? Do you know what the right questions even are? Are you paying attention and truly listening to the answers? - Are you using technology and processes to your disadvantage? Are you filtering out too many potential candidates? - What can the candidates do to have a better shot at being seen and working through some of these technological and process filters? - Where does recruiting sit within your organization? Is it part of your HR team? Is that the right decision? - How and where can the community work together to help each other? It’s time to take Kirsten’s advice by doing what she says — I am going to ask her a few questions and then shut up and listen. Want more from The Academy? Great! You can find more episodes and articles here: https://www.itspmagazine.com/the-academy-column-infosec-and-cybersecurity-education
Panel: Charles Max Wood Cher Stewart Chris Fritz Special Guests: Ramsay Lanier In this episode of Views on Vue, the panelists discuss creating a Vue plugin with Ramsay Lanier. Ramsay is a front-end developer for Novetta and spends most of his time turning fancy data into cool visualizations. He originally got his start in programming with React and is a new convert over to Vue. He talks about why he decided to create his Vue plugin and what steps he took to create it. This episode is great for people wanting to learn more about plugins and when they can best be used. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Ramsay intro Recent Vue convert Got his start with React Side project: WordExpress What is a Vue plugin? How do you get started creating a Vue plugin? Apollo GraphQL Parsing How did you know you needed a plugin? Don’t have to be an expert in Vue to create a plugin What was the most difficult part of building it? Getting started was the hardest part Vue Plugins Documentation Likes the Vue plugin implementation over React’s Wanted something convenient Shortcodes are what can be expanded upon Vue.use What does Vue.use accept? Instance vs Global methods? Any plugins that you really liked? Vue Router Did anything surprise you when looking up plugins? Vuex Plugin tests And much, much more! Links: Novetta Vue React WordExpress Apollo GraphQL Vue Plugins Documentation Vue Router plugin Vuex Ramsay’s GitHub RamsayLanier.com @Rmmsy Picks: Charles Bose SoundLink Headphones Cher Vue'do Sneaky Pete Chris Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang RimWorld New Component Docs Vim Vixen Vimium Ramsay Atlanta Monster Today, Explained Amazon Originals Sneaky Pete Electric Dreams Sea of Theives
Panel: Charles Max Wood Cher Stewart Chris Fritz Special Guests: Ramsay Lanier In this episode of Views on Vue, the panelists discuss creating a Vue plugin with Ramsay Lanier. Ramsay is a front-end developer for Novetta and spends most of his time turning fancy data into cool visualizations. He originally got his start in programming with React and is a new convert over to Vue. He talks about why he decided to create his Vue plugin and what steps he took to create it. This episode is great for people wanting to learn more about plugins and when they can best be used. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Ramsay intro Recent Vue convert Got his start with React Side project: WordExpress What is a Vue plugin? How do you get started creating a Vue plugin? Apollo GraphQL Parsing How did you know you needed a plugin? Don’t have to be an expert in Vue to create a plugin What was the most difficult part of building it? Getting started was the hardest part Vue Plugins Documentation Likes the Vue plugin implementation over React’s Wanted something convenient Shortcodes are what can be expanded upon Vue.use What does Vue.use accept? Instance vs Global methods? Any plugins that you really liked? Vue Router Did anything surprise you when looking up plugins? Vuex Plugin tests And much, much more! Links: Novetta Vue React WordExpress Apollo GraphQL Vue Plugins Documentation Vue Router plugin Vuex Ramsay’s GitHub RamsayLanier.com @Rmmsy Picks: Charles Bose SoundLink Headphones Cher Vue'do Sneaky Pete Chris Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang RimWorld New Component Docs Vim Vixen Vimium Ramsay Atlanta Monster Today, Explained Amazon Originals Sneaky Pete Electric Dreams Sea of Theives
Podcast Interview With Laura Drummer, Novetta by The Neo4j Graph Database Community
In today's podcast we learn about the FBIs' arrest of an NSA contract worker—classified material was found in his home and vehicle. TalkTalk gets a record fine—£400,000, which comes to a hundred thousand hackerweight—for its 2015 data breach. Yahoo! email surveillance allegations amount to a story that's still murky and anonymously sourced. The Johns Hopkins University's Joe Carrigan stops by to discuss local vs cloud storage. Peder Muller from Novetta previews his upcoming presentation on Bitcoin and Blockchain. And the AUSA Meeting and Exposition closed yesterday with a look at 2030, warnings of Russian information operations, and considerations of how the US Government can keep pace with industry innovation.
In our 104th episode of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker and Alan Cohn are joined by Jim Lewis, senior fellow and director of the Strategic Technologies Program for CSIS, at 25th annual RSA Conference. They discuss: Apple’s legal arguments for not providing assistance to the FBI; the bidding on encryption on Capitol Hill; China’s backdoors into the iPhone; Baidu’s role in compromising users; Privacy Shield; Brazil’s jailing of a senior Facebook executive; and North Korea’s hacking team has been pantsed in a recent Novetta report. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of the firm.