Demonstrating an ability to grasp the obvious. Perhaps there is hope for DHS yet.

https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/dhs-bulletin-warns-of-russian-cyber-attacks-in-retaliation-if-us-responds-to-a-ukraine-invasion/

DHS Bulletin Warns of Russian Cyber Attacks in Retaliation if US Responds to a Ukraine Invasion

As the great “will they or won’t they” continues to play out in the news, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a bulletin to law enforcement agencies warning that Russian cyber attacks in the US are possible if Ukraine is invaded.

(Related) If they are saying amateurs can successfully attack the pros, they have it right. But can amateurs survive retaliation?

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2022/02/01/cascading-chaos-nonstate-actors-and-ai-on-the-battlefield/

Editor's Note: This piece is part of a series titled "Nonstate armed actors and illicit economies in 2022” from Brookings's Initiative on Nonstate Armed Actors.

Stay current.

https://www.isaca.org/resources/news-and-trends/newsletters/atisaca/2022/volume-5/report-provides-insights-on-evolving-privacy-landscape?cid=edmi_3000861&Appeal=edmi&utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=AtISACA_20220202&utm_term=evol-privacy-land&utm_id=172072&sfmc_id=97787913

Report Provides Insights on Evolving Privacy Landscape

New research from ISACA explores the latest trends in enterprise privacy—from privacy workforce and privacy by design to privacy challenges and the future of privacy—in its new Privacy in Practice 2022 survey report, sponsored by OneTrust.

… The survey report was discussed in depth in the free webinar, “The State of Privacy: 2022,” available on demand at https://store.isaca.org/s/community-event?id=a334w000004cmroAAA. A complimentary copy of the Privacy in Practice 2022 survey report and additional privacy resources and articles can be accessed at www.isaca.org/dataprivacy. Additional information on ISACA’s privacy resources, including the Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer™ (CDPSE™) certification, is available at www.isaca.org/cdpse. ISACA also hosts a Privacy group in its Engage online forums to discuss the topic and share best practices.

This could also be viewed as a “Things managers should never do” manual.

https://www.bespacific.com/cias-simple-sabotage-field-manual-a-timeless-guide-to-subverting-any-organization-with-purposeful-stupidity-1944/

Read the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual: A Timeless Guide to Subverting Any Organization with “Purposeful Stupidity” (1944)

Open Culture: “…Now declassified and freely available on the Homeland Security website, the manual the agency describes as “surprisingly relevant” was once distributed to OSS officers abroad to assist them in training “citizen-saboteurs” in occupied countries like Norway and France. Such people, writes Rebecca Onion at Slate, “might already be sabotaging materials, machinery, or operations of their own initiative,” but may have lacked the devious talent for sowing chaos that only an intelligence agency can properly master. Genuine laziness, arrogance, and mindlessness may surely be endemic. But the Field Manual asserts that “purposeful stupidity is contrary to human nature” and requires a particular set of skills. The citizen-saboteur “frequently needs pressure, stimulation or assurance, and information and suggestions regarding feasible methods of simple sabotage.”…

Managers

• In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first. See that important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers.

• Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products; send back for refinishing those which have the least flaw.

• To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions.

• Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.

• Multiply the procedures and clearances involved in issuing instructions, pay checks, and so on. See that three people have to approve everything where one would do...”

Perspective. Why are tech companies ignoring math?

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/02/01/1044561/meet-the-nsa-spies-shaping-the-future/

Meet the NSA spies shaping the future

For someone with a deeply scientific job, Gil Herrera has a nearly mystical mandate: Look into the future and then shape it, at the level of strange quantum physics and inextricable math theorems, to the advantage of the United States.

Herrera is the newly minted leader of the National Security Agency’s Research Directorate.

Might be an interesting perspective on our Supremes.

https://www.bespacific.com/uk-supreme-court-has-launched-its-first-free-online-course-for-the-public/

UK Supreme Court has launched its first, free, online course for the public

Paul Sandles, Librarian and Departmental Records Officer: “The Supreme Court has launched its first, free, online course for the public. https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/inside-the-supreme-court We have worked in partnership with Royal Holloway, University of London, to create the course. Our aim is to give people a behind the scenes look at the work of the Supreme Court and Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC). The course is designed to increase awareness and understanding of the role and work of the Court.

• The course is highly interactive. Content takes the form of articles, case studies, video interviews, quizzes, and mini lectures. Hosted on the social learning platform FutureLearn, everything is presented by academic experts from Royal Holloway, present and former Supreme Court Justices, and a range of people who work at the Court.

• Registration is open now. The course will begin on Monday 21 February and learners can complete it in their own time, within the two-week window. We estimate that it will take four hours a week.

• Further information is provided on the programme syllabus and on our website…”