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Tag: Trust

  • PLAYING THE LONG GAME

    Persistent Access and Strategic Cyber Pre-positioning by Hostile States PURPOSE: A threat-led, public-evidence review for government security assurance. The focus is not the spectacular end-state attack, but the quieter activity that creates and preserves the option to act later. CENTRAL QUESTION: What changes if we treat persistent, privileged and difficult-to-evict access as a strategic capability…

  • Someone You Know Is Struggling With Gender

    They may not know it yet. Or they may know, and not know whether they can trust you. 1. Someone you know Consider your social circle; the people you know, current and past. Colleagues you may have worked with for years. Siblings / aunts / uncles / nephews / nieces / cousins if you have…