Bluepurple Pulse: week ending October 23rd

The IoT cyber security tyre fire is slowing being doused in buckets of water by Governments globally..

Welcome to the weekly highlights and analysis of the blueteamsec subreddit (and my wider reading). Not everything makes it in, but the best bits do.

Operationally this week nothing overly standout just the usual background of cyber and fibre telecommunications cables being cut in France.

In the high-level this week:

• Podcast called ‘Presence Matters’ with Nakasone (Director NSA) and Easterly (Director CISA) and on Ukraine, collaboration and midterm elections

• Podcast with Bailey Bickley, Chief Strategy Officer for the NSA Cybersecurity Collaboration Center - a broad and insightful chat to attract others into the community/industry.

• Cyber in the Shadows Insights from Insurgent Groups Deterrence Without Escalation - Why the Future of Cyber Operations Will Be Covert - from Joint Forces Quarterly.

• Cyber attack recovery effort cost Hackney Council over £12m last year - an attack on a local government government in the UK and evidenced true cost.

• Tracking Competition in Cyberspace: Announcing the D…