Dr. Dave Venable
Focused on building resilience in democracies | Former U.S. intelligence officer | Chair, @ISRS.ngo | Board director & CISO | TheCipherBrief
- Well, if it’s not us-east1, it’s Cloudflare… And it’s always DNS
- I was very honored to speak on the evolution of the CISO role at the Cyber Future Summit today, at the George W Bush Presidential Center.
- “More than 50% of social media accounts are AI bots, and they are influencing how we think” - Kate Kuehn at Cyber Future Summit
- My latest:
- My latest:
- The next asymmetric war isn’t guerrillas and IEDs - it’s engineered through AI, biotech, and code. @davevenable.com on synthetic asymmetry in @thecipherbrief.bsky.social www.thecipherbrief.com/asymmetric-war
- I wonder how long it will take for English grammar to evolve into something less precise, simply because AI detectors flag good writing as artificial.
- Home is where your coffee machine is
- Hey Chat, what is irony?
- Слава Україні!
- Some CISOs and Chief Risk Officers have been doing this for years, but this makes a lot of sense in larger orgs www.weforum.org/stories/2025...
- From an OPSEC perspective, if the Astronomer CEO and HR Chief had just smiled and waved, we would have never heard anything about this. (Not to encourage that sort of thing, but just classic Streisand Effect)
- Come on, people 🙄 therecord.media/spain-awards...
- “Spanish Government creates new classification category: REL PRC”
- Interesting read: thehackernews.com/2025/07/gpuh...
- My latest article for @thecipherbrief.bsky.social www.thecipherbrief.com/cyber-critic...
- But it does demonstrate the increase in scale of that enduring tactical approach
- Reminder that anything Russia does next is NOT a “response” to Ukraine’s attack. Ukraine’s drone attack was a response to Russia’s sustained war on Ukraine for the last 3 years.
- Very excited to be joining!
- We are proud to announce that our Chairman, @davevenable.com, has been selected to join the United States delegation for high-level security discussions at the Spanish Senate in Madrid, May 2025.
- What's the best way to share slide decks or image carousels of around ~10 slides on BlueSky? Or is there one?
- The real story here is that SECDEF is using the linked devices feature of Signal, which has known vulnerabilities www.yahoo.com/news/hegseth...
- This vulnerability was revealed by Dan Black of Google’s Threat Intelligence Group: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/russia-targeting-signal-messenger/
- "3 day special military operation"... still going 3 years later. "Ending the war on day 1"... still going on day 100.
- Check out our handy guide on signs a democracy is backsliding
- Follow us to see how we are doing things differently
- Post-Conflict recovery can be handled many different ways. Let’s make sure we use the opportunity to make things better than they were before
- Reminder to check out the Intelligence, International Security, and Cyber list: bsky.app/profile/did:...
- And if you work in the field and I missed adding you, please DM me!
- Check out some of the work my new nonprofit is doing!
- Hey friends, please follow my new NGO: @isrs.ngo We are a Geneva-based NGO focused on Resilience, Cyber, and Post Conflict
- Gen Haugh and Wendy Noble have been fired www.thecipherbrief.com/dead_drop_ar...
- Cryptography 101
- Haha this is great!
- You misspelled “checks and balances,” sir.
- Great read from @ambdanfried.bsky.social and @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social : www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-at...
- Whoa
- Perfect example: Operation Infektion (aka Operation Denver)
- Oh cool 😑 www.ft.com/content/c284...
- Is your company doing cybersecurity internships this year? Please share info below
