Intelligence, International Security, and Cyber
List by Dr. Dave Venable
- ISRS is a Geneva-based NGO addressing the world’s hardest security challenges through field-driven research, implementation-focused strategy, and hands-on partnership.
- Focused on building resilience in democracies | Former U.S. intelligence officer | Chair, @ISRS.ngo | Board director & CISO | TheCipherBrief
- Straight-shooting information and analysis at the intersection of national security, law, and policy. Support Lawfare at lawfaremedia.org/support
- Security. People matter most. Get off X, fool. Signal: Zero.999
- ISW is a policy research organization focused on U.S. national security. Email: press@understandingwar.org. For more: linktr.ee/understandingwar
- Just thinking out loud.
- Bellingcat is an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists brought together by a passion for open source research. Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
- The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. Cultivating a global network of digital forensic analysts (#DigitalSherlocks) to combat disinformation.
- Czar for life of all Russians. Master Strategist. Tea connoisseur. Author. YouTuber. Window installer. Wanted in 123 countries. Parody, apparently.
- Editor @insidereng, host @foreignoffpod, substack.com/@macspaunday, ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror: goo.gl/Jb6uEA. Next book on the GRU for @vikingbooks. macspaunday@protonmail.com
- Founder & CEO LutaSecurity @payequitynow MIT&Harvard visiting scholar, @MasonNatSec fellow, 1/2 Chamoru, 1/2 Greek all-American hacker
- @ridt on X
- Geopolitics, Russia, China, Cyber Chairman @silverado.org Author of WorldOnTheBrink.com Host GeopoliticsDecanted.com podcast Founder Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS Co-Founder CrowdStrike @DAlperovitch elsewhere
- Connecting police & catching criminals in 196 countries for more than a century. 🕵️ Follow our success stories here. 👮♂️🚔👮♀️ ✍️ Report crimes to your local police.
- Propaganda scholar; Visiting Prof @notredame.bsky.social; Fellow Bard College; Associate Cambridge; Owner Maven of Persuasion LLC; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕 https://emma-briant.co.uk & signal: Emmalbriant.44
- Former CG USArmyEurope, loves the Army Team, FSU football, and Braves baseball.
- NPR Correspondent covering technology and national security. CURRENTLY: on maternity leave. Send me a tip: Text JennaMcLaughlin.54 on Signal from personal (nonwork) devices.
- Experience. Conflict. Commentary. Join our community: warontherocks.com/membership/
- Unsuccessfully retired ex-prez, ex-MEP, ex-foreign minister, ex-ambassador, ex-director of RFE-RL Estonian service, etc, ex cetera. Except for @darthputinkgb.bsky.social, I take seriously only those who post here under his or her own name.
- Senior reporter at @CybersecurityDive.bsky.social covering all things digital security. I also co-host @hothtakes.bsky.social. | Send me tips: ericjgeller.com/contact.html
- Former CIA clandestine service. Spycraft Entertainment, Atlantic Council, NAFO. Host of Mission implausible podcast. Friend of dogs everywhere.
- Malign influence and info ops | Foreign interference | Russia @ Atlantic Council, DFRLab. Views my own. 🇺🇦
- Breaker of software, responder of incidents, IANS Faculty, VP R&D Hunter Strategy.
- Intelligence, geopolitics, and learning | Global Head of Training & Education, Emergent Risk Interrnational | Senior Fellow, Hayden Center | Former CIA & State Department | Duke poli sci PhD | Author, The President’s Book of Secrets
- Cyber guy. Former NSA cybersecurity director and chief of TAO. Lover of memes. Warning - occasional outrageous Christmas light content.
- 🌏 CFR is a resource for foreign policy news and analysis. CFR takes no institutional positions on policy. Follows, reposts, likes ≠ endorsements. ✉️ Subscribe to our newsletters: cfr.org/newsletters
- Cyber security, climbing, caving and diving! 💜
- Research and development at the intersection of cyberspace, global security, and human rights. Based at Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto.
- Author | spooky trans athlete | Linux behavioral threat researcher | never hacked nobody https://hexadecim8.com
- cyber raconteur | author THIS IS HOW THEY TELL ME THE WORLD ENDS | former @nytimes | now betting on heroes @ Silver Buckshot Ventures + Venture Partner at Ballistic Ventures.
- Former CIA, author of the Victor Caro series, watcher of yachts, alexzfinley.com alexzfinley.substack.com
- World-class thought center on intelligence & national security | Reposts are not endorsements | hayden@gmu.edu
- Journalist, author, thinktanker, baker, swimmer, politician. Lifelong Kremlin-basher.
- Personal account. Retired USAF, former Director of CIA & NSA, author, husband, father, granddad. Views are my own. Retweets are not endorsements.
- The Munich Security Conference (MSC) is the world’s leading forum for debate on international security. #MSC2026: February 13-15, 2026
- Cypherpunk and CSO at Evertas Insurance. Angel investor in crypto/security, Puerto Rico resident.
- KCSI is a diverse group of leading intelligence scholars & practitioners working together to better understand the evolving global security landscape. kcsi.uk
- A blog and podcast about Russian and post-Soviet politics.
- A bipartisan research institution, CSIS is recognized as the top defense and national security think tank in the world. https://www.csis.org
