Cyber Counterintelligence

Strategic Cyber Environment Management with Zero Trust and Cyber Counterintelligence

Abstract:

Organisations need to improve their information security practices, given the volume of successful cyberattacks and crimes. To enhance security in an organisation, information security must be considered a business issue, instead of a technical problem. Hence, organisations must change the security protocol from reactive action to proactive operation; must develop information security strategies that support the business; should implement better controls, systems, and services; and must create a process to proactively gather information about the possible threats and adversaries. This study proposes a novel method for combining a zero-trust strategy with cyber counterintelligence to gain the required security level and situational awareness to encounter modern threats.

A Cyber Counterintelligence Matrix for Outsmarting Your Adversaries

Abstract:

While Cyber CounterIntelligence (CCI) has been a distinctive specialisation field for state security structures internationally for well over a decade, recently there has been growing recognition of CCI’s significance to non-state actors. CCI is central to proactively mitigating cyber risk and exploiting opportunities. With the growing recognition of CCI’s significance comes an appreciation of its complexity. CCI is all about outthinking and outwitting adversaries. This article advances a conceptual matrix that can serve both as a high-level ‘pocket guide’ for outsmarting adversaries and as an aid to academic research.

Published In

Volume 19, Issue 1

Written By

Petrus Duvenage

Victor Jaquire

Sebastian "Basie" von Solms

Keywords

Cyber Security

Cyber Counterintelligence

Risk Management

Offensive Cybersecurity

Threat Intelligence

Information Warfare

Information Operations

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Towards a Literature Review on Cyber Counterintelligence

Abstract:

For those connecting the dots, the threat landscape continues to affirm the necessity of having Cyber Counterintelligence (CCI) at the centre of cybersecurity efforts. Concurrent with the growing interest in CCI in corporate boardrooms and the corridors of governments, CCI is evolving from a field of academic enquiry to a distinctive academic sub-discipline.

Published In

Volume 17, Issue 4

Written By

Petrus Duvenage

Victor Jaquire

Sebastian "Basie" von Solms

Keywords

Cyber Counterintelligence

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Dominating the Attacker: Use of Intelligence and Counterintelligence in Cyberwarfare

ABSTRACT

In the event of cyberwarfare the defender must harden the attacker’s target by secure design, a defined security perimeter, and a suite of tools. Indeed, the defender must be ever alert and ready to react to attack. Over many years, defenders in traditional warfare have learned to predict the style, magnitude and possible outcomes of a physical attack, and how to deceive and confuse an attacker with the objective of changing the outcome. Perhaps the cyberwarfare defender can take a similar approach, by employing intelligence and counterintelligence techniques that are superior to those of the attacker.

Published In

Volume 2, Issue 1

Written By

Jack Davey

Helen Armstrong

Keywords

Cyber Counterintelligence

Intelligence

Cyber Warfare

Cyber Security

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