I have been publishing essays on international security and technology issues since 1993. In 1996, I was co-author on an award winning essay on information terrorism, which was subsequently published in the peer-reviewed journal Terrorism and Political Violence. My other writings are scattered within the Internet, but I’ve consolidated several of the more popular ones below.
Utilizing Terrorism Early Warning Groups to Meet the National Preparedness Goal – This paper articulates a vision for expanding the Terrorism Early Warning Group (TEW) network that meets the local and national requirements as specified in, Homeland Security Presidential Directive 8: Interim National Preparedness Goal (HSPD-8).
Online Security: Lock Your Doors! – An editorial on information security and due diligence published in Electronic Business Week magazine.
National Security in the Information Age – Mr. Devost’s 1995 thesis on information warfare and national security has been published internationally and referenced in numerous international government reports.
Information Terrorism: Can You Trust Your Toaster? – This paper on cyberterrorism received the prestigious Sun Tzu award from the National Defense University and has been reprinted in numerous books and academic journals including the peer reviewed Terrorism and Political Violence journal.
Organizing for Information Warfare: The Truth is Out There! – Follow-up to the Toaster paper looked at unique organizational challenges associated with addressing the IW threat.
Generation Hack – First person report from an underground hacker convention was first published in Upstart Magazine.
Taking Cyberterrorism Seriously – Short paper response to an article on cyberterrorism that appeared in the Washington Post on June 27, 2002.
Current and Emerging Threats to Information Technology Systems and Critical Infrastructures – Essay written for the Global Business Briefing journal detailed a lot of the basis for threat assessments I was conducting for U.S. government and corporate clients.
Communication of Threats – Commissioned research report on strategies to share intelligence within the U.S. transportation infrastructure.
Political Aspects of Class III Information Warfare: Global Conflict and Terrorism – My presentation notes from the Second International Conference on Information Warfare and Security.n
I have co-authored or contributed to several books.
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Threats in the Age of Obama (Paperback) – ISBN: 978-1934840801 If you are on a mission to change the way government works, particularly in the national security arena, this is one a place where some independent and intellectually diverse thinking is to be found. In these essays, we offer our view of some of the more pressing threats the Obama administration will have to deal with in these early days of the 21st century. The essays in this volume are contributed by Daniel H. Abbott, Christopher Albon, Matt Armstrong, Matthew Burton, Molly Cernicek, Christopher Corpora, Shane Deichman, Adam Elkus, Matt Devost, Bob Gourley, Art Hutchinson, Tom Karako, Carolyn Leddy, Samuel Liles, Adrian Martin, Gunnar Peterson, Cheryl Rofer, Mark Safranski, Steve Schippert, Tim Stevens, and Shlok Vaidya. |
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Cyber Adversary Characterization: Auditing the “When we speak of the hacker mind, then, we have come to mean the mind of a miscreant motivated by a broad range of ulterior purposes. We mean script kiddies who download scripts written by others and execute them with the click of a button, we mean vandals with limited impulse control, we mean thieves of data, and then we mean all the people who use that data for extortion, corporate or industrial espionage, state-level spy craft, identity theft, grand larceny, blackmail, vicious revenge, or terror. That’s lots of kinds of minds, needing to be understood, needing to be profiled, needing to be penetrated, needing to be known inside and out.”–from the preface by Richard Thieme |
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Hacking a Terror Network (Paperback) – ISBN: 1928994989
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Informatica – ISBN: 0375706372 “In his introduction to Informatica 1.0, author Peter M. Black notes that his original pitch to Random House was that his book would be similar to The Whole Earth Catalog, only 30 years later–without the chemical toilets and backpacking gear. What he offers instead is a catalog for a wired world that is always in search of more information.” – Amazon review |
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2005 Terrorism Analysis and Research Report (Volume 1) – ISBN: 978-1-4116-8310-5This two volume annual anthology of global terrorism and international security events and real-time analysis as written by some of the world’s top terrorism analysts during the calendar year 2005. This book is designed as an invaluable reference, containing over 650 essays, which highlight and analyze global terrorism and international security issues augmented by proprietary perspectives and intelligence forecasts. |
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2005 Terrorism Analysis and Research Report (Volume 2) – ISBN: 978-1-4116-8312-9This two volume annual anthology of global terrorism and international security events and real-time analysis as written by some of the world’s top terrorism analysts during the calendar year 2005. This book is designed as an invaluable reference, containing over 650 essays, which highlight and analyze global terrorism and international security issues augmented by proprietary perspectives and intelligence forecasts. |
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