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Announcing OODA LLC: Helping clients identify, manage, and respond to global risks and uncertainties
We have some exciting news to announce. We are now part of OODA LLC. If you have a background in cybersecurity or the military or are a student of decision theory you can probably tell our company name is meant to honor one of the greatest warrior thinkers of the modern age, Air Force Colonel John Boyd. Boyd was an…
Opinion piece in TheCipherBrief.com Sanctions for NotPetya? You Betcha.
Crucial Point founder and CTO Bob Gourley published an opinion piece in TheCipherBrief.com titled “Sanctions for NotPetya? You Betcha.” It concludes with: In selecting real sanctions, policymakers have a range of options that can deliver real messages while keeping us off an escalation ladder with a nuclear power. Some options include: Further economic sanctions Expulsion of businesses and Russian citizens…
Know The Global Environment And Connect With Community At The Cipher Brief Threat Conference 8-10 April 2018
The 2018 Cipher Brief Threat Conference will be held 8-10 April in Sea Island Georgia. With out a doubt, this was the greatest conference I attended in 2017. It was a great time to connect with others in the security and risk mitigation community and offered a fantastic opportunity to learn from thought leaders who have spent years focusing on…
Crucial Point LLC Founder and CTO Bob Gourley Named To List Of Top Data Miners
Crucial Point founder and CTO Bob Gourley has been named one of the top data miners by Import.io, the platform for web data extraction and use. From the report: In the blossoming world of big data, the data miner is king. Although your own business may already see the value in data, it’s more difficult to understand how to data mine for…
Featured in TheCipherBrief.com: Sidestepping False Profits in Blockchain
Crucial Point founder and CTO Bob Gourley is a member of TheCipherBrief.com’s Cyber Advisory Board. His latest contribution there is titled Sidestepping False Profits in Blockchain. From the article: The world is just beginning to experience the disruptions being generated by blockchain, the technology that underpins Bitcoin and that provides a new way to fight fraud and improve cybersecurity. The…
CTOvision One Of The Best IT Blogs 2018: Must-Read Resources for CIOs, IT & Security Pros
CTOvision, the blog focused on enterprise technologists, has been named as one of the best IT blogs for 2018 by VertitechIT. Information Technology. Sometimes we get so focused on the bits and bytes side of the equation we forget about the information part. When it comes right down to it, IT is all about using technology to inform, to communicate,…
Federal government cybersecurity strategy & botnets
Bob Gourley was featured in Government Matters TV discussing Federal Government cybersecurity strategy and botnets: For more see: GovmattersTV For more on this or any other technology topic, contact Crucial Point’s CTO Bob Gourley today. We can provide a free assessment of your current situation and more insights into our Technology Due Diligence and CTO Advisory Services.
Intel Inside? TheCipherBrief Experts Debate Threat in New Chip Flaw
Bob Gourley is a member of the cyber advisory board of TheCipherBrief.com He was interviewed on the topic of the flaws recently announced in Intel and AMD chips. The following is from that interview: Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two major software vulnerabilities in the Intel microprocessors inside the vast majority of all computers. Dubbed “Meltdown” and “Spectre,” the vulnerabilities could…
Bob Gourley Featured on Constellations Podcast
Satellites, Cyber Threats and Sun Tzu Bob Gourley, Co-Founder and Partner of Cognitio Bob Gourley shares his thoughts on the latest cyber threats affecting satellites and space. He discusses everything from encryption, forensics, connected aircraft to the NIST framework. To listen see: KratosComms.com For more on this or any other technology topic, contact Crucial Point’s CTO Bob Gourley today. We…
Know The Threat To Beat The Threat: Recorded Future Podcast
Our guest today is Bob Gourley, author of the book “The Cyber Threat: Know the Threat to Beat the Threat.” Earlier in his career, Bob spent 20 years as a U.S. Navy intelligence officer. One of his last assignments with the military was as director of intelligence for the first Department of Defense cyber defense organization. For more see: Recorded…
Connected Vehicles and Cybersecurity: An SAE produced webinar
Join SAE International and our panel of esteemed industry leaders representing wireless technology, government, law, and automotive cybersecurity for an informative discussion on the events and technologies that have brought the mobility industry to this crucial point in its evolution. For more see: Connected Vehicles and Cybersecurity To learn more about ways you can leverage Crucial Point for your…
The Automotive Cyber Security Summit: October 25-27 Fremont California
The Automotive Cyber Security Summit is for practitioners in the automobile industry who are working to predict and mitigate both current and future risks due to technology. The event brings together experts from across the auto industry, including manufactures, designers and providers of on-demand services and autonomous vehicles. For more see: Automotive Cybersecurity Summit
Beating the Breach with Bob Gourley – Cloudera VISION
Bob Gourley was featured in the Cloudera Vision podcast: The adversaries are a highly collaborative group that shares and sells attack techniques every day. SecureWorks found that hacking a gmail account only costs $129, a corporate email account costs $500, a twitter account costs $129, and hacking wifi is a free tutorial on Youtube. In order to effectively figure out how to…
CTOvision Named To BizTech’s List Of Top 30 Must-Read Blogs For the Small to Mid-sized Business
We are pleased to report that CTOvision has been named to BizTech’s list of the top 30 “Must-Read” blogs for small to mid-sized businesses, ranking as number 2 of 30. The small to mid-sized market includes all firms under 2000 people in size, which is 90% of the businesses in the U.S. We believe in the small to mid-sized business (SMB) and know the leadership…
Bob Gourley on FedScoopTV Discussing Technology Market Research
Crucial Point LLC founder and CTO Bob Gourley provided context on technology market research in this FedScoop TV interview: For more see: FedScoop
Sorting through a ‘Cambrian Explosion’ of cyber solutions
Bob Gourley, former chief technology officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency, offered tips to federal agencies seeking the right cybersecurity solution amid what he calls, “the Cambrian Explosion of great capabilities in the tech sector.” For more see: GovMattersTV
Bob Gourley Featured On BBC Radio 4 The World Tonight
Were the Russians hacking the Democrats email server ? For more see: BBC Radio
Bob Gourley Featured in AFCEA: Risk Taking Leads to the Rewards of Innovation
Bob Gourley has coined the term “cambric” to illustrate the seven technologies that, when put together, will disrupt humanity. At the symposium, he explained that cambric stands for cloud computing, artificial intelligence, mobility, big data, robotics, the Internet of Things and cybersecurity. For more see: AFCEA:
AFCEA International and George Mason University Host Annual Critical Issues in C4I Symposium
AFCEA International and George Mason University are hosting the annual Critical Issues in C4I Symposium which will bring academia, industry and government/military together to address important issues in C4I technology and systems R&D. We are proud to announce that Bob Gourley will be providing assessments on the future of IT relevant to operational ISR and critical DoD missions (including Cybersecurity,…
Bob Gourley Named One of Top 100 Influencers in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence is the discipline of thinking machines. It has been a field of growing interest since 1955 when John McCarthy first coined the term, defining it as “the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.” The largest players in technology today, including Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple, are all investing heavily in Artificial Intelligence. So are most of the…