Author: A.J. Nash

a.j.-nash-headshotA.J. Nash is a strategist and public speaker focused on building cyber intelligence programs for enterprise-wide, intelligence-driven security. A.J. honed his skills over 18 years in the United States Intelligence Community in roles focused on collection, analysis, reporting and briefing. His work informed military and government leaders, the Secretary of State, Congress, and the White House. A.J. holds a B.S. in Liberal Studies from Excelsior College and has both a Graduate Certificate in Servant Leadership and an M.A. in Organizational Leadership from Gonzaga University.

 

 

From the Winter 2023 Issue

Shifting from Reactive to Proactive Security is on the Horizon

Author(s):

A.J. Nash, Vice President of Intelligence, ZeroFOX

Reactive to Proactive Security

Security leaders often mention that their primary goal is to get ahead of threats instead of responding after something terrible has been discovered. Yet, despite that consistent target to move from a reactive to a proactive security posture, the majority of cybersecurity budgets and efforts continue to focus in the opposite direction. Let’s dig into … Read more

From the Fall 2022 Issue

Who’s Responsible for the Death of Privacy?

Author(s):

A.J. Nash, Vice President of Intelligence, ZeroFOX

Who's Responsible for the Death of Privacy

In the last 40 years, the industrialized world has become reliant on interconnected technologies, with nearly all communication now accomplished through email, cellular phones, and various messaging systems. Additionally, nearly all records — from the critical to the mundane — are stored in connected environments not controlled by those who routinely entrust their data to … Read more

From the Winter 2022 Issue

It’s Time for Intelligence Teams to Recommend Operational Changes

Author(s):

A.J. Nash, Vice President of Intelligence, ZeroFOX

AJ Nash winter 2022

Increased Focus on Configuration Management and Crown Jewels is Vital to Success Many experts​​ in cybersecurity talk about the need for “intelligence-driven security,” but most consumers don’t know what to do with the Intelligence they are paying for​ or how to measure the value of the actions taken as a result of that Intelligence. This may be somewhat expected for … Read more

From the Fall 2021 Issue

The Most Financially Devastating Form of Cyber-Attacks Can be Thwarted for Free

Author(s):

A.J. Nash, Vice President of Intelligence, ZeroFOX

As ransomware continues to grab most of the headlines in cybersecurity, it’s easy to lose track of the much larger threat of Business Email Compromise (BEC). According to the FBI’s 2020 Internet Crime Report, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received 2,474 complaints of ransomware that resulted in $29.1M in financial loss.[1] While it is … Read more

Cyber Self-Defense Is Not Complicated

Author(s):

A.J. Nash, Vice President of Intelligence, ZeroFOX

Cyber Self-Defense

Whether it be texts that include personal content not meant for public consumption, emails, hard drives, cloud storage containing sensitive business information, or the endless supply of finance transaction data that most of us pass across the Internet daily, few people in the modern world are immune to the threat of a cyber-attack. Hence, the importance … Read more

From the Spring 2021 Issue

Rise of the Chief Intelligence Officer (CINO)

Author(s):

A.J. Nash, Vice President of Intelligence, ZeroFOX

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In response to growing threats in cyberspace, private sector organizations began creating Intelligence programs nearly a decade ago, usually referred to as Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI). In theory, the private sector was attempting to replicate what the government has successfully done for generations: gain informational advantage to prevent enemy victories and mitigate damage from enemy … Read more

From the Spring 2017 Issue

The Differences Between Data, Information, and Intelligence

Author(s):

A.J. Nash, Vice President of Intelligence, ZeroFOX

Perhaps the most difficult part of the transition from public to private sector for cyber professionals coming out of the US intelligence community (IC) is one of language. Conversations regularly take place in industry settings where the first challenge is ensuring that everyone is speaking the same language. In the IC there are a few … Read more