CYBERSECURITY 3.0: The Single Most Important Event of this Century

CYBERSECURITY 3.0
THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT
EVENT OF THIS CENTURY
The Massive Shift in Competition
That Has Gone Largely Unrecognized
BLACKOPS PARTNERS CORPORATION - PROPRIETARY - COPYRIGHT © 2018

Speaker
T. Casey Fleming
Chairman and CEO
BlackOps Partners
Founder, IBM Cyber Division (early 1990’s)
Cybersecurity Professional of the Year (2016)
contact@blackopspartners.com
www.blackopspartners.com
Intelligence | Think Tank | Strategy | Cybersecurity | Unprecedented Risk
Washington

The Single Most Important Event of This Century

‘War’

‘We don’t know what we don’t know’

‘The modern battlefield is everywhere’

No rules.

CYBERSECURITY 3.0
‘Digitization Changed Everything’
¨ Audience: All
¤ All industries and sectors: senior leaders and boards
¤ All government and military senior leaders
¨ Cybersecurity 1.0 & 2.0: Reactive, ‘Fighting a Ghost’
¤ Current day: One-third of attacks are successful
¨ Cybersecurity 3.0: ‘Digitization Changed Everything’
¤ Digital Transformation, Big Data, AI, ML, Quantum, Cyber growth, etc.
¤ Explosive growth forecasted for technology and risk
¨ The Long Game is now in focus
¨ The Massive Shift in Competition That Has Gone Largely
Unrecognized
¨ Visibility into the Big Picture: Unprecedented Risk
¨ Focus: Adversarial strategy and ongoing intelligence
¨ Now provides ability to pivot to proactive approach

“The Problem Isn’t Cambridge Analytica: It’s Facebook”
Forbes, 03.19.2018
“If You Weren’t Already Worried About Russia, You Should Be Now”
CNN, 03.25.2018
“Investors Put Cybersecurity Top of the Business Threat List”
Security, 03.08.2018
“Cyberspace is the New Battlespace”
Homeland Security Newswire, 03.09.2018
“Xi Jinping says China Willing to Fight ‘Bloody Battle' to Regain
Rightful Place in the World, in Blistering Nationalist Speech”
The Telegraph, 03.20.2018
“U.S. Charges 9 Iranians in Huge Theft of Intellectual Property”
New York Times, 03.23.2018
Current Environment: March 2018

Current Environment: July 2018
“FBI Director Wray: China is ‘Most Significant’ Threat to US”
“China is the Broadest, Most Challenging, Most Significant Threat We Face as a Country”
https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-director-says-china-is-the-broadest-most-significant-threat-to-the-us-2018-7
“Chinese Unrestricted Warfare Targeting American Economy, National Security”
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-budget/398838-chinese-unrestricted-warfare-targeting-american-economy
“China Fighting ‘Real War’ to Steal US Innovation”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/china-fighting-real-war-to-steal-us-innovation_2600736.html?utm_source=Epoch+Times+Newsletters&utm_campaign=5ff9459657-
EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_25_11_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4fba358ecf-5ff9459657-238109141
“Report: China, Russia and Iran Ramp Up Economic Spying on US”
https://www.apnews.com/94edccaf1e184ec6805f2f5471d43760
“What Trump’s Trade War Is Really About”
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-06/what-trump-s-trade-war-is-really-about
“DHS head Nielsen forecasts 'hurricane' cyberattacks”
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/31/dhs-head-cat-5-cyber-hurricane-is-forecast-heres-what-were-doing-a.html?__source=sharebar|linkedin&par=sharebar

Massive Shift in Global Competition
¨ Unveiled: The Long Game
¨ “Unprecedented Risk”
¨ The game changed
¨ No Rules
¨ “Unrestricted Warfare” or “Asymmetrical Hybrid Warfare”
¨ $5 trillion stolen each year - one-third of U.S. GDP
¨ Permanently replacing U.S. in global competition
¨ Theft and infiltration affecting every company, industry, sector
¨ Pervasive espionage and infiltration: cyber, physical, human

“Why Trump’s Tariffs on China are a Big Deal”
CNNMoney, 03.22.2018
“Steel vs Steal”
Accelerated theft of:
• Innovation
• Trade secrets
• Intellectual property
• R&D
• Revenue, profit, jobs, our future

The ‘New’ Era in Global Competition
Unprecedented Risk
Asymmetrical Warfare

THE ‘NEW’ GLOBAL COMPETITVE MODEL
‘UNPRECEDENTED RISK’
‘ASYMMETRICAL HYBRID WARFARE’
DEFINITION
• Non-military
• No rules
• “Live or Die”
• Plausible deniability
• Comprehensive weakening
• Ultimate goal: Complete takeover

“The greatest transfer of wealth in history”
General Keith Alexander (ret.)
Director, National Security Agency
Commander, U.S. Cyber Command
07.09.2012

• Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
• Russian Federal Security Service (FSB)
• North Korea
• Iran
• India
• The DarkNet
• Others
OVERALL STRATEGY - ADVERSARIES

Non-Military
• Economic Warfare
• Transaction Warfare
• Industrial Warfare
Trans-Military
• Drug Warfare
• Information Warfare
Military
OVERALL STRATEGY - EXAMPLES

Cyber Warfare acts as the key accelerator
OVERALL STRATEGY

Idealogical Warfare
Attack: Values, Morals, Perceptions
Stages of Subversion
1. Demoralize
2. Destabilize
3. Open Conflict
4. Intervention
OVERALL STRATEGY

Economic Warfare
Attack: Financial Stability
• Foreign investment
• Currency devaluation
• “Cooperation”: Research / Business / Academic
• Blanketed, systematic espionage
• “Nothing is as it seems”
‘ASYMMETRICAL HYBRID WARFARE’
OVERALL STRATEGY

Unprecedented Risk
¨ Driving ever-increasing unprecedented corporate and
organizational risk (also government, military, academia)
¤ Financial, Reputational (Brand), Strategic, Operational,
Legal, Survival Risk: ALL Risk
¨ Cybersecurity acts as the key accelerator to all methods
of Unprecedented Risk (Asymmetrical Hybrid Warfare)
¨ Now top priority with CEO’s, Boards, and C-Levels
¨ Missing link: Adversarial intelligence and strategy
included in corporate and Cybersecurity strategy
¨ Historical blind faith in technology and products ignore
the critical importance of the Human Factor

Pervasive Espionage and Infiltration

Strategy
Strategy
Unprecedented / Asymmetrical Risk
Cyber Warfare
Operational
Tactical
Information Technology
Unprecedented Risk, Asymmetrical Risk
and Cyber Warfare Focus

Key Takeaways
¨ The game changed while we’re very busy fighting with obsolete strategy with
technology and cybersecurity tools that are highly fallible.
¨ Massive shift in global competition that has gone largely unnoticed
¨ Adversarial ‘Live and Die’ versus our ‘Win and Lose’
¨ Extreme pervasive espionage and infiltration
¨ Cybersecurity and Unprecedented Risk must be elevated to the strategy layer
(where our adversaries have had it all along)
¨ Pivot focus to the Human Factor (proactive), not just Technology (reactive)
¨ CEO’s, C-levels, and Boards must lead the charge
¨ Share this important intelligence briefing - authorized for public distribution
¨ For a copy of this presentation, Unprecedented Risk - Asymmetrical Hybrid
Warfare PDF, ‘connecting the dots’ media list
- Send an email to: contact@blackopspartners.com

¨ Now you know.
¨ Awareness and Decisive Action:
- Unprecedented Risk and AHW
¨ Guard your data and personal values
¨ Personal Cyber hygiene
¨ Contact your elected representatives
¨ Opportunity to shift: Now you know.
HOW WE MOVE FORWARD TOGETHER
IMMEDIATE TAKEAWAYS

Actionable Steps
¨ Update corporate and Cyber strategies based on Adversarial
Intelligence and Unprecedented Risk
¤ Elevate to the Strategy layer
¨ Practice Unprecedented Risk methods - Wargames
¨ “New Era” Human Factor awareness with adversarial intel
¨ Classify data, limit network, and physical access
¨ Always use a trusted VPN
¨ Restrict your mobile banking
¨ Think and study before you click
¨ Use separate strong passwords
¨ Use multi-factor identification
¨ Cyber hygiene begins with you and your family
¤ Cyber is now a key part of your daily life
¨ Remain alert and knowledgeable

¨ Defensive response to the ‘new era’ in global competition
¨ Unprecedented risk is the strategy and ultimate threat being
leveled against every U.S. and most allied organizations
¨ Cybersecurity now resides at the strategy layer
¨ Cybersecurity is a key accelerator to Unprecedented Risk
¨ Cybersecurity must be based on ongoing adversarial intelligence
and adversarial strategies
¨ Every organization must practice ‘muscle memory’ of
Unprecedented Risk (Asymmetrical Hybrid Warfare)
¨ A cultural and policy change (including suppliers)
¨ Performs shift from posture to proactive posture
¨ Action required immediately
Summary: What is Cybersecurity 3.0?

Resources
Cybersecurity 3.0 Is the Single Most Important Event of This Century
https://www.blackopspartners.com/cybersecurity-3-0-is-the-single-most-important-event-of-this-century/
Connecting the Dots: Refer to ‘Company Page’ on LinkedIn
Use Follow Us: for ‘up to date posts’
https://www.linkedin.com/company/blackops-partners-corporation/
Unprecedented Risk | Asymmetrical Hybrid Warfare
https://www.blackopspartners.com/resources/
Army Cyber Institute: “The Secret War Against the United States”
https://www.blackopspartners.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/BLACKOPS_CDR_SecretWar.pdf
TED Talk: “On the Front Lines of a War You Don’t Know About”
https://www.linkedin.com/slink?code=e2jricq
Rand Corporation: “Stretching and Exploiting Thresholds for High-Order War”
“How Russia, China, and Iran Are Eroding American Influence Using Time-Tested Measures Short of War”
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1003.html
Has China Been Duping the US? Dr. Michael Pillsbury Discusses Tactical Efforts
https://www.blackopspartners.com/has-china-been-duping-the-us/

‘New Era’ Strategy-Based Adversarial Intelligence:
¨ C-level and Board briefings
¤ Risk, strategy, security, intelligence, cyber, unprecedented risk
¨ Enhanced Wargame exercises
¨ ‘New Era’ Security model and Cybersecurity 3.0 transformation
¤ Risk model transformation
¤ Security awareness training
¤ Data breach - tabletop exercises
¤ Risk assessments: security, cyber, organizational, C-Level, Board, IT,
supply chain, M&A
¨ Custom engagements
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