Day: December 11, 2021

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Information Warfare

Cyberwarriors will soon have access to more training tools | C4ISRNET

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For years, cyberwarriors lacked the same vital training facilities as their counterparts battling on the land, sea, or in the air. Despite the constantly shifting battleground, these forces didn’t have the same chances to perfect their talents. That shifted about three years ago, when the first clients were able to log on to the Persistent Cyber Training Environment, or PCTE, an online client that enables the US Cyber Command’s cyber mission force to log on just about anywhere in the world for individual or group training as well as mission rehearsal. Users can undertake exercises from a distance with these virtual training areas, and units and individuals can train on demand just by logging in. 

Source: https://www.c4isrnet.com/cyber/2021/12/05/cyberwarriors-will-soon-have-access-to-more-training-tools/ 

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Cyber Security

Softbank backs $400m investment in Israeli industrial cybersecurity firm Claroty | Times of Israel

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According to a joint official statement Wednesday, Japanese investment giant SoftBank co-led a $400 million investment in Israeli cybersecurity business Claroty, a developer of technology to safeguard businesses and industrial facilities against cybersecurity assaults. Yossi Cohen, the former head of the Mossad, is in charge of SoftBank’s Israel operations, which he left in June after more than five years on the job. Cohen will join Claroty’s board of directors as part of the investment. Claroty raised $140 million six months ago, which the business claimed as the “biggest investment ever” in the industrial cybersecurity market at the time. 

Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/softbank-backs-400m-investment-in-israeli-industrial-cybersecurity-firm-claroty/ 

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Artificial Intelligence

The Myth of Artificial Intelligence | The American Prospect

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Researchers agree that the phrase “artificial intelligence” is more of an idealistic undertaking that encompasses an expanding set of data-centric innovations than a technologically exact characterization. Around 2010, a blend of improved computing power and vast troves of web data reignited interest in decades-old methodologies, igniting the modern AI boom. It wasn’t so much the algorithms as it was the focused assets and monitoring marketing strategies that could gather, store, and analyze previously incomprehensible amounts of data. To put it another way, the so-called “advances” in AI that have been praised over the previous decade are essentially the result of highly concentrated data and processing resources held by a few giant internet companies such as Amazon, Facebook, and Google. 

Source: https://prospect.org/culture/books/myth-of-artificial-intelligence-kissinger-schmidt-huttenlocher/