Bluepurple Pulse: week ending September 31st

Scarcity or constrained access to technology risks driving lateral thinking and innovation...

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 you will see there are material levels of reporting on nation state activity.

In the high-level this week:

• Data-driven cyber: empowering government security with focused insights from data - How 'small but actionable' insights can improve behaviours and decision making.

• The US cybersecurity posture under Biden - from the European Parliament Think Tank - The Biden administration inherited considerable cybersecurity challenges. According to a 2021 US Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, previous governmentsfailed to implement many of the GAO's 2018 recommendations to take 10 critical actions in response to 4 major cybersecurity challenges

  • The Biden Administration’s Implementation Plan for the National Cybersecurity Strategy - a summary and analysis - “it should not be assumed that just because the implementatio…