Announcement: New non-commercial blog/podcast

[Nick Selby <nick.selby () gmail com>]

Hi, everyone,

This is to announce the launch of a non-commercial blog and podcast called
Police-Led Intelligence. It covers issues of cyber intelligence,
intelligence and law enforcement technology. At Dave A's suggestion, I'm
posting this here.

We hope to make the topics beefy and pragmatic enough to give law
enforcement analysts a source of ideas and discussion fodder, and
interesting enough to draw the attention of command staff and even some cops
- we're involving cops and ex-cops, current researchers and analysts from
day one.

It's at:

http://policeledintelligence.com

Some here may have heard of me on this list as an information security
industry analyst. I'm also a crime and intelligence analyst, and a rookie
police officer in the Dallas Fort Worth area. My partner in the blog, Dave
Henderson, is a 15-year veteran sergeant and detective in the same region.
We're trying to blend our two worlds through topics of mutual interest (the
About page on the site tells the story).

The site is advertiser-free. We do exchange links, but not money, with other
similarly themed sites. Guests are not permitted to sell anything on the
podcast, and must disclose when they have commercial interest in a method or
product (it hasn't happened yet, and we've recorded eight).

In the first podcasts, up now, we talk with:

  * Andy Ellis, chief security architect at Akamai Technologies (which
handles about 20% of the Internet's traffic each day) about ways the private
sector works to share intelligence and threat information with law
enforcement and other private organizations, and the challenges of deciding
what to share;

  * Eric Olson, vice president of commercial intelligence firm Cyveillance
to discuss ways in which analysts can seek at low cost to reduce the volume
of data they consider for analysis by considering new ways to sort out the
data they can NOT look at;

And (we hope) to interest cops and non-technical staff:

  * Rik Ferguson, director of security research for anti-virus firm Trend
Micro, who gives us a Cyber Crime 101 primer: how do criminals make money
with malicious software, how does malicious software work, and what does it
target? And if someone were to launch a cyber attack against a police
officer or agency, how would a criminal go about it - step by step.

Already recorded and rolling out in the coming weeks are more podcast
episodes including:

 * Ex-cop Michael Vallez and ex-Microsoft and US DOE researcher Aaron Turner
on mobile security for police agencies and the top five mobile apps every
cop should have;

 * Ex-cop and current security researcher Alex Cox on gathering digital
forensics at companies which have been the targets of a computer breach;

 * White hat social engineer Mike Murray on phishing, spear-phishing and
other con-games, and how to defend against and investigate them;

 * Former US Marine intelligence analyst, co-author of "Cybercrime and
Espionage: An Analysis of Subversive Multi-Vector Threats" and current
HP-TippingPoint executive Will Gragido on intelligence and information
management strategy; and

 * Dave and me talking about why people think that cops hate technology when
what they really mean is that cops hate technology that looks to solve
problems they didn’t know they had, as opposed to processes which drive them
crazy.

We're seeking contributors and people to interview for the podcast. We pay
what it costs you to read and listen: nothing!


Current posts that I like include:


*The Three Golden Rules of Law Enforcement Technology*: http://bit.ly/ecxh0L

*Interrogation: As Easy As Parenting, Part I*: http://bit.ly/fHoMxm (*Part
II* comes today, I think)

*Pre-Pwn3d Websites*:  http://bit.ly/fEslK7

*The Biggest Mistake Made By LE Technology Vendors*: *Part I*
http://bit.ly/gsP44b and *Part II* http://bit.ly/fRvYgC

*Two New Intel Publications:* http://bit.ly/hZkMCk


Let us know what you think!

Nick Selby

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