What I Read — February 2021: Cyber Intel, Cyber Crime, Disinformation, and Strategy

Articles I found interesting in February 2021:

A Cyber Threat Intelligence Self-Study Plan: Part 1 — Katie’s Five Cents, Katie Nickels, 2/23/2021

I read everything Katie Nickels shares. Even if I have learned it before. Katie is one of the foremost experts on Cyber Threat Intelligence and is so amazing at sharing her knowledge. This post, for example, is an absolutely excellent primer on CTI — from the basics of Intelligence to how it applies to cyber security to models to community. This post is pretty much the class I taught on CTI in a 10-minute read. It’s that good.

How the United States Lost to Hackers — Nicole Perlroth, New York Times, 2/6/2021

Interesting article on how the United States Government has sacrificed defensive cyber strategies for offensive cyber strategies. Unfortunately, focusing more on offensive has left the US government and other national key terrain vulnerable to malicious cyber attacks. While the US can respond with an offensive attack of its own, the damage by the malicious first-mover has already been done.

UK targeted Isis drones and online servers in cyber attack — Helen Warrell, Financial Times, 2/7/2021