James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology Biography & Quotes

“The health sector continuously get’s pummeled by malicious actors and hackers because their cyber-kinetic security is being managed by “Participation Trophy” winning wimps!”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“A CISO's job is to streamline, harmonize and propagate cybersecurity and cyber hygiene throughout the organizational IoT microcosm and staff”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Exfiltrated metadata from internet service providers and social media platforms can be plugged into big data analytics and once the right algorithm is applied, can allow an adversary surgically precise psychographic targeting of critical infrastructure executives with elevated privileges. Why is no one talking about this?”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“It's time to wake up and smell the Mutating Hash! Signature Based Malware Detection is Dead”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“You can keep the Office of Personnel Management records, I don't need Electronic Health Records, give me the metadata, big data analytics and a custom tailored algorithm and a budget and during election time, I can cut to the psychological core of any population, period!”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Senator Markey’s Cyber Shield Act can work! Start the conversations with the basics: Use a QR code that attaches to a dynamic database that runs an artificial intelligence algorithm to calculate the score. Let’s not make this more difficult than it is.”

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“Overall, Cyber Shield Act is an excellent idea and could facilitate a much-needed cultural shift in secure device manufacturing and upkeep." James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology”

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“Most IoT devices that lack security by design simply pass the security responsibility to the consumer, thus, treating the customers as techno-crash test dummies. James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“The two main problems with signature and heuristic based anti-virus is the mutating hash and the fact that you first need a victim in order to obtain the signature." James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology”

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“If developed and implemented meaningfully, Cyber Shield Act could be a catalyst to incite responsible cybersecurity adoption and implementation throughout multiple manufacturing sectors." James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“The Cyber Shield Act could serve as a secure conduit to facilitate update and patch delivery" James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Overall, Cyber Shield Act is an excellent idea and could facilitate a much-needed cultural shift in secure device manufacturing and upkeep.”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“The Cyber Shield Act could serve as a secure conduit to facilitate update and patch delivery”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“After Congress passed SJ Res 34, we are no longer merely battling a cyber-kinetic war on all fronts, we are now in a state of perpetual cyber-kinetic-meta war, and there will be no end.”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“If you don’t feel ordained by the Universe to do this job, do something else. The intelligence community has to shut down the gaping wound that is the insider threat epidemic we are experiencing right now.”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Cyber warfare is as much about psychological strategy as technical prowess.”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“What do you mean “Should we worry about cyber adversaries getting into state voter registration databases?” They’re already in and selling exfiltrated voter registration data on the dark web! Next election cycle black hats will be selling ‘access as service’.”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“This cyberwar will be a continuous marathon war that will only compound and hyper-evolve in stealth, sophistication and easy entry due to the accelerated evolution of “as a service” attack strategies for sale on the dark web.”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“There's a compounding and unraveling chaos that is perpetually in motion in the Dark Web's toxic underbelly.”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Real cybersecurity means that your Security Operations team is consistently pen testing your network with the same stealth and sophistication as the Russian nation state, the same desperation as China’s 13th Five Year Plan, the same inexhaustible energy of the Cyber Caliphate and the same greed and ambition for monetary payoff as a seasoned cyber-criminal gang.”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Your ideas are bound to forces of which you have no control due to the fact that you've voluntarily submitted your freedom of though to the perception steering censorship of Google, Facebook and other dragnet surveillance capitalists.”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“You are a product to dragnet surveillance capitalists like Google, Facebook, Comcast and Verizon. Your ideas are rarely your own, rather you are little more than a pawn to their perception steering initiatives to get you to read, believe and buy what they put in front of you. The first step to breaking out of this faux reality matrix is to stop using Google, Bing, Yahoo, Comcast and Facebook.”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“The gaping wound in America’s national security is without a doubt, the unregulated dragnet surveillance capitalists.”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Electronic consciousness and the transhuman revolution renders infinite possibilities for the future as man merges with machines. This is an exhilarating time to be alive!”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“A vulnerability in an organization's IoT microcosm is a "taunt" to exploit by malicious hackers”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“The Frankensteined architectonic IoT microcosm of the prototypical critical infrastructure organization renders an infinite attack surface just begging to be exploited.”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“I don’t care how secure you think your organization is, I’ll social engineer my way inside in less than 24 hours regardless of the sophistication of your IoT microcosm security. Whatever obstacles I run into exploiting your technical vulnerabilities will be made up for by exploiting the vulnerabilities in the cyber hygiene of your staff.”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Hacking a national election is simple. Exploit a vulnerability in the manufacturer's network, poison the tabulation software update with self-deleting malware and let the manufacturer send to their field reps and election consultants who update the election systems.”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“The security theater we are witnessing in our election system boasting the illusion of security via ‘clunky as heck’ and air gap defense will do nothing against the real and sophisticated adversarial landscape that is zeroing in on our democracy”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“This next president is going to inherit the most sophisticated and persistent cyber espionage cultures the world has ever seen, He needs to surround himself with experts that can expedite the allocation of potent layers of next generation defenses around our targeted critical infrastructure silos.”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“We’re talking about the fate of our economy and the questionable resiliency of our Nation’s critical infrastructure. Why are experts so polite, patient, and forgiving when talking about cybersecurity and National Security? The drama of each script kiddie botnet attack and Nation State pilfering of our IP has been turned into a soap opera through press releases, sound bites and enforced absurdity of mainstream media. It’s time for a cybersecurity zeitgeist in the West where cyber hygiene is a meme that is aggressively distributed by those who have mastered it and encouraged to be imitated by those who have experienced it.”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“You'll have the right to be angry about Vault 7 only after you boycott dragnet surveillance data providers like Google, Microsoft, Skype, Facebook and LinkedIn. The true threat is coming from the private sector surveillance profiteers.”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“A single spear-phishing email carrying a slightly altered malware can bypass multi-million dollar enterprise security solutions if an adversary deceives a cyber-hygienically apathetic employee into opening the attachment or clicking a malicious link and thereby compromising the entire network.”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Many members of Isis are not sophisticated attackers. The majority of members do not have a technical background. The UCC is predominately capable of hacking soft targets, such as Twitter accounts, and spreading propaganda or defacing websites”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Signature-based malware detection is dead. Machine learning based Artificial Intelligence is the most potent defense the next gen adversary and the mutating hash.”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“In an age of dynamic malware obfuscation through operations such as mutating hash, a hyper-evolving threat landscape, and technologically next generation adversaries, offensive campaigns have an overwhelming advantage over defensive strategies.”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Few critical infrastructures need to expedite their cyber resiliency as desperately as the health sector, who repeatedly demonstrates lackadaisical cyber hygiene, finagled and Frankensteined networks, virtually unanimous absence of security operations teams and good ol’ boys club bureaucratic board members flexing little more than smoke and mirror, cyber security theatrics as their organizational defense.”

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“In this cyberwar, industry is on their own and must combat nation states, cyber mercenaries, cyber caliphate and other actors via layered security laced with intelligent machines.”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Cyber hygiene, patching vulnerabilities, security by design, threat hunting and machine learning based artificial intelligence are mandatory prerequisites for cyber defense against the next generation threat landscape.”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“In this business, I find more value in working with hackers who abstract new realities from cast aside code and concepts than academics who regurgitate other people’s work and try to pawn it off as their own.”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“In this digital age, we're experiencing the weaponization of everything.”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Wannacry is the Stuxnet of Ransomware”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Dragnet surveillance capitalists such as Facebook, Comcast, AT&T and Google, unfortunately, supply these manipulating forces with an endless supply of metadata for this information war against the American and European public.”

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“I see the impossible work being done by of my friends at the federal agencies, the Pentagon, NATO, Five Eyes and the intelligence community. They are doing the impossible, for the ungrateful and with a fraction of the budgets required to render a viable defense.”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Cyber hygiene has to memetically pounded into the intellectual DNA of the American population and continuously reinforced by peer pressure.”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“The cyber industry is riddled with faux experts and self-proclaimed scholars, Tallinn Manual 2.0 is a perfect example of what happens when cyber-upstarts try to proclaim authority on a topic they know nothing about.”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Cybersecurity whitepaper authors have it all wrong! It’s about weaponizing the mind of the reader so that when they’re done reading the document, you’ve memetically drilled home actionable concepts that will expediently impact their cyber defense.”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Ransomware is not only about weaponizing encryption, its more about bridging the fractures in the mind with a weaponized message that demands a response from the victim.”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Right and wrong isn’t a matter of ethics, rather it’s the geography in which you reside and whose control you’re under. Tallinn Manual 2.0 is based largely on western international humanitarian law.”

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