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          • Bustamante - 2023 BoA Meeting
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          • Senft - Attacker Advantage in Cyberspace
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            • Baughman - PLA Rocket Force's New Normal
            • Billingsley - Liability and the 2023 National Security Strategy
            • Kaye - Augmenting Threat Hunting Using Threat Intelligence
            • Draeger - The Autopilot Problem
            • Verma - Our Own Con
            • DePeppe - Combating Lawfare via Web3
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            • Bustamante - Senior Cyber Leaders
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            • Billingsley - BOA 2021 Dinner
            • Baughman - Attacking the Metaverse
            • Stewart - DevOps for NetOps
            • Vanatta - Envisioning Future WMD
            • Welles - Packet Capture is Back
            • Pena - Schrodinger in Space
            • Lozovsky - Army JROTC Cyber Kickoff
            • Baughman - China Blue Army Metaverse
            • Lockwood - Countering PRC Information Warfare
            • VanderLeest - Ransomware an Act of War?
            • Renda - STEM Education and Globalization
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Archive Articles (2020)

The Next Cyber Whiz Might Be an English Major

By Dr. Lynn M. Houston

September 20, 2020

The skills that students acquire in liberal arts programs may be exactly what cyber security teams need.

(U.S. Army National Guard photo by Specialist William Phelps)

Leverage the Guard (or Reserves) to Resolve the Broadband Crisis for the Coming School Year

By Professor Dennis Dias and Professor John Doherty

August 17, 2020

In the face of the ongoing pandemic, National Guard communications assets should be deployed to provide broadband access to rural and underserved communities.

(U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Kellyann Novak)

Emerging Technology Contributes to Pandemic Response

By Veronica Wendt

June 1, 2020

Lt. Col. Blake George leveraged his National Defense University College of Information and Cyberspace education in emerging technologies to assist the White House-led supply chain task force for COVID-19 test kit supplies.

How the COVID Pandemic Makes Us More Vulnerable to Cyber Intrusions 

By Mark Pomerleau, MCPA Public Affairs Officer and Chris Kubecka

May 29, 2020

During the third Lockdown Lunch & Learn webcast May 3, Chris Kubecka, founder and CEO of HypaSec, outlined the cybersecurity threats caused by the ongoing pandemic and the increase in teleworking.

The Global Health Pandemic Has Led to an Increase in Nation State Disinformation Campaigns 

By Mark Pomerleau, MCPA Public Affairs Officer and Lt. Col. Roman Vitkovitsky, USMC

May 5, 2020

During the second Lockdown Lunch & Learn webcast April 28, Roman Vitkovitsky, Director of Cyberspace Operations for the United States Marine Corps, discussed the use of Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA) to counter nation state "infodemic" campaigns.

How Internet Scammers Are Taking Advantage of the Global COVID Pandemic

By Mark Pomerleau, MCPA Public Affairs Officer

April 23, 2020

During the inaugural Lockdown Lunch & Learn webcast April 21, Brad Rhodes, MCPA HammerCon Co-Lead and a cyber warfare officer in the Colorado Army National Guard, provided a threat briefing of the ways actors are trying to exploit the current crisis and ways organizations can protect themselves from the activity.

US Election Security: Is Your Vote Protected?

By Daria Bahrami, Contributing Editor

April 17, 2020

Without voter confidence and electoral integrity, the foundation of US democracy would be fragile at best.

Non-attribution: CNO Snake Oil 

By José Fernández

March 4, 2020

Disassociated Levels of Cyber Infrastructure vs CNO Snake Oil; Which is Better?

Senior Leaders Assemble to Support and Celebrate America’s Cyber Warriors

By Christine B. Piry, Events Director, MCPA

February 3, 2020

This past December, the Military Cyber Professionals Association (MCPA) held its 2019 Board of Advisors Dinner Meeting.

Injecting Electromagnetic Pulses into the Electric Grid and Infrastructure: The Poor Man’s EMP Nuke

By Paul F. Renda

January 20, 2020

Injected electromagnetic pulses (EMP) could have catastrophic effects on portions of our infrastructure -- and unlike a nuclear detonation, injected EMP is feasible with low cost, off-the-shelf hardware.

HammerCon - The Time is Now!

By LTC Brad E. Rhodes, HammerCon Co-Lead

January 6, 2020

Save the date for 23 June 2020 to take part in our community's first national convention, HammerCon! Find info about our first "Con" and the call for papers and presentations (CFP) here.

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