By now, many of us are in the midst of a prolonged period of telework brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, entire sectors of government, including civilian agencies and the defense and national security workforces, have shifted to remote operations. This has created a large group of analysts, operators,...
In this webcast, Mitch Freddura, Program Manager of our Ntrepid Academy, walked through the fundamentals and best practices of managing your online attribution, defined the landscape of the clear and deep web, and covered useful online research techniques.
Transforming open source data into intelligence, or OSINT, has become increasingly complex over the last decade. Although more open sources are available to operators, the dramatic increase of false information and adversarial counter attacks online have made the collection of data an even more tedious process. Known as the OSINT...
So what is a bot? Bots are programs that are designed to engage on social media platforms, often leveraging the platform’s API infrastructure, without requiring human intervention.
This case proves that the unencrypted elements of data provide a new managed attribution consideration; every file, post, and message that is published online can weaken or strengthen users’ digital fingerprint and behavioral footprint.
My previous blog on threat modeling for managed attribution presented a basic framework for analyzing the MA solutions you might use to protect your online operations. In this post, I further analyze the kinds of information that could be visible to the various categories of threat actors.
Many entities could act as potential threats when you execute your online missions. Depending on the threat actor’s attitudes and capabilities, the severity of these threats can vary.
When you are trying to operate online, it may seem obvious that you need an alias; the question is, what kind? In this blog, I am going to share with you my framework for the four forms of online identity.
Tracking links are helpful to improve your marketing campaign or increase traffic to your website. But they can also have serious implications for your managed attribution—whether you click on them or you create them.
One of the reasons that people flock to VPNs, or virtual private networks, is to appear "anonymous" to their ISP. However, as we have already discussed with our managed attribution paper, online anonymity is a myth. Instead, users need to manage their digital fingerprint and behavioral footprint to operate online without giving away...
