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The Assurance Continuum: A Unified Election Assurance Pipeline for Securing Democratic Infrastructure in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

July 24, 2026 Modern critical infrastructure depends upon an increasingly complex ecosystem of software, hardware, supply chains, operational processes, artificial intelligence, and human institutions. Yet assurance for these systems remains...

From DevSecOps to Continuous Trust: Active Cyber™ Discusses Unifying Software Assurance, Supply Chain Security, and Accreditation

May 22, 2026 I was talking recently with my son who works in an AI lab designing and building assembly lines for automated AI factories and the discussion reminded me...

From Passive Beliefs to Active Defense – Building a Cognitive Firewall Against Disinformation

April 2, 2026 Belief systems have traditionally been treated as passive—formed through experience, culture, and social context. But in a world shaped by algorithmic feeds, synthetic media, and microtargeted narratives,...

Active Cyber™ Takes a Fresh Look At Space Cyber Security

September 19, 2024 I have taken notice lately of the number of headlines that are discussing cyberspace threats in space. Well, not just threats in cyberspace space but also kinetic...

Looking at the AI Impacts on the Cyber Kill Chain Frameworks

January 15, 2024 Lately, I have been wondering about the emerging threat factors that are impacting the cyber kill chain and how the cyber kill chain and related frameworks [MITRE...

Trust in the Digital Economy – What Will 2022 Bring?

I see an overabundance of security and trust challenges as we turn the page on 2021 and move onto 2022. The challenges of 2022 will start off being much like...

AI and Mod-Sim Tools Create Insight for Better Cyber Investing

My recent SOC Service Manager experience got me to thinking about cyber tool sprawl and the return on investment that my customer was getting for their cyber investment. There is...

ActiveCyber Interviews Tony Sager – Chief Evangelist of the Center for Internet Security – on Emerging Technologies for Active Defenses

The Center for Internet Security (CIS) is a non-profit organization that provides a treasure trove of information and assistance designed for the cyber practitioner, including assessment tools, recommended controls, best...

Government-Industry Partnerships Enable Rapid Growth in Security Automation Advances and Adoption

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab’s Integrated Adaptive Cyber Defense (IACD) project is maturing and moving into high gear as playbook automation begins to take hold across multiple government and...