The Cascade: Anatomy of a Compound Crisis
November 2, 2026 A follow-up to “The Tangled Web: How Today’s Threats Feed Each Other.” In my last post, I argued that today’s threats are not separate problems but a...
November 2, 2026 A follow-up to “The Tangled Web: How Today’s Threats Feed Each Other.” In my last post, I argued that today’s threats are not separate problems but a...
October 31, 2026 There is no shortage of writing about how today’s crises connect. Risk reports map it every year, and some historians call it a “polycrisis.” Cyberattacks, a fragile...
October 22, 2026 The convergence of quantum computing and agentic artificial intelligence creates a security problem that cannot be solved by treating quantum readiness, AI security, and Zero Trust as...
September 17, 2026 Artificial intelligence is beginning to transform cybersecurity from a profession dominated by human-operated tools into one increasingly characterized by autonomous systems capable of monitoring, investigating, reasoning, and...
August 28, 2026 I was reading through some of the recent DEF CON 34 presentation descriptions and was struck by how complex the deception and evasion techniques have become for...
August 16, 2026 For centuries, military advantage has been measured in weapons, manpower, territory, and technological superiority. But the battlefield is changing. As autonomous drones, AI, networked weapons, satellites, robotic...
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...
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...
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,...