And an entire year’s expected political espionage game will not materialize for them. While you love to see it, at the same time know that those APT teams will have to do new and possibly creative things this year to make up for the shortfall, even if only for their own internal metrics.

First impression is one of a very committed assault element.

The precedent that service footage may circulate in this manner will be critical for future poison pen claims, especially those involving Pacific regional tensions and conflict interactions (such as fabricated claims about war crimes).

Precisely the point of the conversation. And if this is so difficult to estimate in the simplest and most common of defensive actions, than how much harder to measure countering interactions

inattention (where any further implant is good enough for immediate purpose, so why waste time thinking and just grab first tool to hand).

intrusion workloads as consequence of earlier ops being burned. But case is confounded by the likelihood that this may be just individual operator preference, error (especially for those with limited skill on keyboard following conditional checklists), or

or any such asset. What else?

of control in every enterprise. This is authoritarian state power exercised directly.

in formally accredited programs, on the same topics.

of university intelligence studies degrees for the requirement. Whatever one thinks about the value, or lack thereof, of certs it is odd to see equivalence made between what is at best 40 engagement hours vice somewhere between 1300 to 3600 program hours demanded

This is not a post about rockets. 🚀

and then driving those choices to the breaking point in testing. Because nothing else will so clearly demonstrate what is absolutely critical to success, and where one’s abstract view of hard choices needs to change in the face of unforgiving pressure. There are lessons here.

an endless series of choices that balance tradeoffs of necessary and desired characteristics. One can spend years to decades analyzing these to find optimized solution sets, and these will still be imperfect. But down in Texas they are taking best estimates,