“America is a reactionary society which makes us prone and vulnerable to Hegelian dialectic style manipulation. I’m more concerned about the adversaries within our boarders than I am our adversaries from abroad.” AmericaSocietyCybersecurityJames ScottIcitSenior Fellow Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“When flimsy cyber defense fails, Format Preserving Encryption prevails” DataEncryptionJames ScottCritical InfrastructureData ProcessingCyber DefenseData BreachData At RestData In MotionData IntegrityFips Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“The disturbingly techno-illiterate and cyber-hygienically lackadaisical and shockingly arrogant responses by the National Association of Secretaries of States when we at ICIT repeatedly showed them what their vulnerabilities were and exactly how elections could be compromised is a betrayal of trust to offer safe and legitimate elections. The technical vulnerabilities littering our election systems is only part of the problem.” ElectionsJames ScottNassCyber HygienicallyTechno Illiterate Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“Cities require connectivity rather than territory in order to drive their economic stability and growth.” CitiesEconomicCybersecurityJames ScottConnectivityInfosecNetsec Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“The health sector is in desperate need of a cyber hygiene injection” HealthcareJames ScottIcitInsider ThreatHealthcare CybersecurityHccicHhsMedical Device Security Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“HCCIC by the C suite at HHS is a profound statement of having the moral courage to do what's right for the health sector” HealthcareJames ScottIcitInsider ThreatHealthcare CybersecurityHccicHhsMedical Device Security Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“Medical devices and EHR systems are notoriously vulnerable to remote compromise” HealthcareJames ScottIcitEhrInsider ThreatHealthcare CybersecurityHccicHhsMedical Device Security Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“The cyber hygienically apathetic c-suites running critical infrastructure organization are losing this war. This this is a cyber kinetic meta war and its hyper evolving in an already next gen space.” CybersecurityJames ScottCyber HygieneEquifaxEquifax BreachEquifax HackMeta Data Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“We’ve gone from a planet ruled by natural geography to political geography to kinetically functional geography to a cyber geography that is ruled by ideological variation rather than politically constructed boarders.” PoliticsGeographyCybersecurityJames ScottInfosecNetsecCyber Geography Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“The way to stifle China’s growth is to inhibit the flow of their connectivity. In order to slow down Chinese expansion, we need to cripple their cyber-kinetic-political connectivity. Indirect polarization, in all forms, must be at the forefront of the agenda when conducting influence operations on all things China.” PoliticsChinaChineseCybersecurityJames ScottInfosecNetsecCyber Kinetic Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“Labor automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence will have a devastating impact on the already struggling Chinese economy.” EconomyChineseAiArtificial IntelligenceCybersecurityJames ScottMlInfosecNetsec Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“The human condition is plagued with a labyrinth of shortcomings, frailties and limitations that hinder man from reaching his fullest potential. Therefore, it only makes sense that we find ourselves at the next phase in human evolution where restricted man merges with the infinite possibilities of hyper-evolving technologies. This techno-human transmutation will prove to be ‘the’ quantum leap in human progression. The harmonization of technologically extending oneself, consciousness, artificial intelligence and machine learning will reverse the failures of genetic predisposition and limitation.” TechnologyAiArtificial IntelligenceCybersecurityMachine LearningHuman EvolutionJames ScottMl Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“Every conceivable layer of the election process is completely riddled with vulnerabilities, so yes, hacking elections is easy!” SecurityElectionVotingElectionsHackingCybersecurityElection 2016MalwarePhishing Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“Consider all tabulation systems infected by bad actors until a third party, not affiliated with the manufacturer or election officials, proves they are secure.” ElectionVotingElectionsHackingCybersecurityElection 2016MalwarePhishingCyber Threats Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“You think an Air Gap is a defense? Sofacy, Stuxnet, Uroburos, AirHopper, BitWhisperer and ProjectSauron…enough said!” DemocracyVoteElectionDefenseAmericanCybersecurityVoterIcitCyberattackSecurity DailyApts Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“The collaboration between secretaries of state, election officials and the voting system manufacturers on the matter of enforcing this black box proprietary code secrecy with election systems, is nothing less than the commoditization and monetization of American Democracy” DemocracyVoteElectionDefenseAmericanCybersecurityStealthVoterIcitCyberattackSecurity DailyApts Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“As we’ve already seen with exfiltrated voter registration databases and the endless methods of poisoning manufacturer updates, manipulating DRE and optical scan machines and bypassing air gap defense, the state election official’s illusion of security is being pummeled by the reality of cyberattack.” VoteElectionDefenseCybersecurityStealthVoterIcitCyberattackSecurity DailyApts Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“Between the black box proprietary code, barebones computers we call voting machines and a mass of completely unqualified election officials, our election system is up for grabs to anybody with even a modest interest and some script kiddie capability. The cyber-kinetic attack surface here is wide open.” DemocracyVoteElectionDefenseVotingAmericanCybersecurityVoterIcitCyberattackSecurity DailyApts Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“Your organization’s illusion based security theater will lose to the reality of cyber-attack any day of the week.” HealthcareCyberattackHealthitCybersecurity Leadership Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“Look at the stealth and sophistication of foreign nation state APTs who break through even the most sophisticated layers of security daily and tell me why they would just give our completely unprotected election systems a pass” VoteElectionStealthIcitSecurity DailyApts Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“A Nation State or Cyber-Mercenary won’t hack e-voting machines one by one. This takes too long and will have minimal impact. Instead, they’ll take an easier approach like spear phishing the manufacturer with malware and poison the voting machine update pre-election and allow the manufacturer to update each individual machine with a self-deleting payload that will target the tabulation process.” ElectionVotingElectionsHackingCybersecurityMercenaryMercenariesMalwarePhishing Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
“Why all this fear and paranoia around Vault 7 and WikiLeaks? Solve the problem by demanding regulation that centers around Security by Design by technology manufactures, problem solved” TechnologySecurityWikileaksJamesIcitSecurity By DesignVault 7 Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology