SPY Museum​ Grand Opening 2019

Paul de Souza and Christine de Souza, CSFI. 

Great seeing Kyra Phillips at the International Spy Museum grand opening gala last night! Kyra Phillips is a correspondent for ABC News, based in Washington D.C.. Phillips became the first female journalist to fly in an F-14 air-to-air combat training mission over the Persian Gulf.

It was a pleasure to be able to hang out with Rear Admiral, USN (Ret.)/CSFI Advisory Director Paul Becker at the International Spy Museum grand opening gala.
Paul Becker is a retired US Navy admiral and the former Director for intelligence, Joint Staff. As the JCS J2, RADM Becker was the principal intelligence advisor to the Chairman of the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Becker T3 Group LLC: https://lnkd.in/ezFMtaG

Robert E. Joyce is an American cybersecurity official who served as special assistant to the President and Cybersecurity Coordinator on the U.S. National Security Council. He also began serving as White House Homeland Security Adviser to President Donald Trump on an acting basis after the resignation of Tom Bossert from April 10, 2018, to May 31, 2018. He completed his detail to the White House in May 2018 and returned to the National Security Agency. where he is now the Senior Advisor to the Director NSA for Cyber Security Strategy, Joyce previously performed as acting Deputy Homeland Security Advisor since October 13, 2017.

Mubin Shaikh is a former security intelligence and counterterrorism operative. He has testified as an expert for the United Nations Security Council, the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs with NATO, the National Counterterrorism Center, and Special Operations Command Central and he is an external expert with the Joint Staff SMA for CENTCOM Command Staff.

He has also appeared on media outlets such as CNN, CBC, ABC, and NBC on matters related to extremism and terrorism.

Filed under: CYBER WARFARE, CYBERSPACE OPERATIONS, Christine de Souza, Paul de Souza, SPY Museum

Inspiration!

Filed under: CYBER WARFARE, CYBERSPACE OPERATIONS, EW, NSA, USAF, USMC, ARCYBER, CSFI, Cyberspace Operations, Paul de Souza, USCYBERCOM, USMC

Presidential Volunteer Service Award for CSFI Volunteer Work

Arvin Verma, Cyber Security Forum Initiative (CSFI) Fellow and an Officer in the US Navy Reserves serving as a Cryptologic Warfare Officer (Designator 1815), is presented with the Presidential Volunteer Service Award for CSFI volunteer work on cyber security projects. He was also presented with a CSFI Challenge coin.

Arvin Verma is an extremely passionate and dedicated cyber security professional currently working as a third party security risk management specialist at PepsiCo. He has previously worked at organizations such as Ernst and Young, Boeing, and Navistar, providing and delivering a diverse set of technical and business solutions across the information technology and cybersecurity arena.

During his time at Boeing, he has filed 4 invention disclosures with one submission being granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office. He was also recognized with the prestigious title of ‘Boeing Inventor’ for his contributions.

Arvin is a graduate of Northern Illinois University’s College of Business (2011) with a bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems and a graduate of DePaul University’s College of Computing and Digital Media (2014) with a master’s degree in Information Systems (concentration in Systems Integration and Information Security and Compliance).

In addition to his formal education and work experience, Arvin is ISC2 CISSP certified, CompTIA Security+ certified and ISO 27001 Lead Auditor certified. He is currently working on obtaining the CISM and CRISC certifications.

Outside of his professional career, Arvin is proudly serving as a direct commission officer in the US Navy Reserves as a Cryptologic Warfare officer (Designator 1815). Additionally, he is a dedicated collaborator with the Cybersecurity Forum Initiative and guest lecturer for NIU’s Operations Management and Information Systems department and Association of IT Professionals student group.

In his spare time, he likes to play tennis, golf, collect and play vintage guitars, vinyl records and various action video games. He also spends his spare time working on and repairing classic and high end sports cars.

Filed under: CYBER WARFARE, CYBERSPACE OPERATIONS

Visit the National Cryptologic Museum

Visit the National Cryptologic Museum @NSAGov honor those who serve in silence #NSA #Paul de Souza #CSFI

Visit the National Cryptologic Museum @NSAGov honor those who serve in silence #NSA #Paul de Souza #CSFI

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DCOE (Defensive Cyberspace Operations Engineer) V.2 Training

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DCOE (Defensive Cyberspace Operations Engineer) V.2 training taught by CSFI Senior Instructor Michael Walker.
DCOE V.2 Course outline: http://goo.gl/EdI2bJ

CERTIFY NOW!

Develop your cyberspace operations skills for the deployment of DCO, NETOPS, and OCO.

In this course, you will acquire the skills for the planning, executing, and integrating defensive cyberspace operations (DCO) into organizational missions and DCO requirements. The course builds on the planning skills learned in the Introduction to Cyber Warfare and Operations Design (ICWOD) course. Adversarial use of tools and their associated techniques are presented to assess network vulnerabilities and to defend friendly networks against adversary threats.

The course covers the use of open source tools and websites for system configuration, penetration testing, and control testing. You will use Linux and Windows command lines and unleash an attack on target servers and analyze the results. Attacks and analysis of will expose you to live attacks in a controlled environment where students can see first-hand the adversary realm of possible actions, how to detect, mitigate, and counter such activities.

Note: This course requires you to bring your own laptop preloaded with VMware Workstation 9 or 10.

Certification:

Defensive Cyberspace Operations Engineer (CSFI-DCOE)

What You’ll Learn

Assess adversary intent and how threat vectors can support malicious intent
How to counter known and emerging threat vectors
Allocation and guidance for resource usage to counter adversary threats
Integration of DCO into larger organizational constructs
Deception methods
Data exfiltration and defense against exfiltration methodologies

Who Needs to Attend

Information operations officers
Information security / assurance professionals
Cybersecurity consultants
Cyber planners
Military members (J2, J3, J6)
Security analysts
Network security engineers
Penetration testers
Auditors
Security engineers

Course Outline

1. Operational Environment

• DCO Planning
• Cloud Operations
• Network Packet Capture and Data Exfiltration
• Windows and Linux Operating System Differences and Configurations
• Wireless Networks Operations and Access
• Open Source Tool Usage
• Network and Internet Reconnaissance

2. Defensive Methods

• Adversary Perspective of Target Selection
• Tool Capability and Countermeasure Planning
  • Maltego
  • Metasploit
  • Social Engineering Toolkit (SET) Usage
• Defensive Tools for Network Threat Situational Awareness
  • DS/IPS – Snort
  • Honeypots
• Detection Avoidance
• Malware Analysis

3. Payload configuration and tool customization

• Target Selection to Support Adversarial Intent
• Tailoring Payloads to Adversary Intent
• Payload Detection Avoidance
• System Log Analysis
• Sensor Adjustments
• Payload Altering
• Current Threat Detection
• Emerging Threat detection

4. Web Application Defense

• SQL Injection
• Cross Site Scripting
• Local File Inclusion
• Remote File Inclusion
• Web Shells

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Filed under: CYBER WARFARE, CYBERSPACE OPERATIONS

de Souza Family 2015

Paul de Souza and Family

“A man should never neglect his family for business” Walt Disney

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Filed under: Civil Air Patrol, CYBER WARFARE, CYBERSPACE OPERATIONS, EW, USAF, USMC

Information Saves Lives

Filed under: CYBER WARFARE, CYBERSPACE OPERATIONS, EW, ARCYBER, CSFI, Cyber Warrior, Cyberspace Operations, USCYBERCOM

Order of Thor Medal Ceremony

Paul de Souza, USAF Colonel April Vogel, and USAF SSgt Christine de Souza

Paul and Christine de Souza recipients of The Order of Thor Medal. Thank you Lieutenant General (ret.), US Army Rhett Hernandez, US Army Major Joe Billingsley, USAF Colonel April Vogel, Chris Cleary, MCPA and CSFI friends!

Lieutenant General (ret.), US Army Rhett Hernandez presenting the Order Of Thor Medal to Paul de Souza, CSFI Founder

Paul de Souza, CCSE, NSA-IAM, BCCPP, Sec+, Net+, CHCP, SANs E-Warfare, JNCIA-FWV.

 

Mr. de Souza is the Founder/President of CSFI (Cyber Security Forum Initiative) and its divisions CSFI-CWD (Cyber Warfare Division) and CSFI-LPD (Law and Policy Division). He is the co-author of the book Strategic Intelligence Management, and he serves as an Advisor for MCPA (Military Cyber Professionals Association).  He served as a Federal Director of Training and Education for Norman Data Defense Systems, and he also teaches Cyber Defense Strategies at George Washington University. Mr. de Souza has over 15 years of cyber security experience and has worked as the Chief Security Engineer for AT&T, where he designed and approved secure networks for MSS (Managed Security Services). Mr. de Souza also worked for CSC and US Robotics as a Security Engineer. He has consulted for several governments, military organizations, and private institutions on best network security practices and also presented in the countries of Estonia, Georgia, Australia, Brazil, Czech Republic, Belgium, Spain, Sweden, Israel, and Romania, as well as all across the United States.

 

SSgt Christine de Souza is a director of the Cyber Security forum Initiative (CSFI), serves as CSFI’s Chief Information Assurance Officer, and is a manager of CSFI’s Cyber Warfare Division. She serves in the Maryland Air National Guard as a traditional cyber surety journeyman in the 175th Cyber Operations Group, where she participates in cyber exercises and training partnerships and was nominated as Airman of the Year 2014. SSgt de Souza holds a dual Master’s degree from Utica College in Cyber Security under the concentrations of both Intelligence and Forensics. In her civilian life, Christine works for Lunarline, Inc., a cyber security contracting and consulting company as an information assurance engineer on contract with the Department of Transportation on the cyber security team for the Federal Railroad Administration.

Chris Cleary, Joe Billingsley (MCPA Founder), Loren Friedel, Paul de Souza (CSFI Founder), Christine de Souza, Ira Hoffman, and Anthony Guess-Johnson

Join the MCPA! https://www.milcyber.org

Filed under: CYBER WARFARE, CYBERSPACE OPERATIONS

DEFCAMP #5 – Bucharest!

 

CSFI had the honor to be a SILVER sponsor of this year’s DEFCAMP #5. Other SILVER sponsors included BMW (thank you for the amazing smooth rides in Bucharest), DELL, IXIA, KPMG, Cyber Ghost, Symantec, and others. It was great to stop by Safetech’s booth and chat with Teodor Lupan. It was 2 days of intense presentations with 3 days of CSFI training, capture the flag, and tons of activities. The first day started with registration at 0800 and ended with the last presentation on SSH Tunneling around 2315. Our CSFI team was impressed by the professionalism, creativity, energy levels from the staff members, and audience at DEFCAMP. I highly recommend this event!

Thank you Andrei, Florina, and staff for being amazing hosts! Romania is certainly proud of you.

 

Mr. Anthony Guess-Johnson CSFI Senior Information Assurance Officer, presenting on Leading and Developing the Cyber Workforce

Mr. Paul de Souza CSFI President, presenting on Cyber Ranges and FOXOP

Mr. Roger Kuhn CSFI Director/Fellow, presenting on SCADA Security

Paul de Souza, Avădănei Andrei, and Roger Kuhn

Paul de Souza, Florina DUMITRACHE, and Roger Kuhn

Hacking away…

Filed under: CYBER WARFARE, CYBERSPACE OPERATIONS, EW

CSFI Training taught in Bucharest, Romania (DEFCAMP)

Introduction to Cyber Warfare and Operations Design class, Romania 2014

This course provides a basic understanding of full-spectrum cyberspace operations, the complexities of the cyberspace environment, as well as planning, organizing, and integrating cyberspace operations. The course will consist of presentations and exercises that will teach you how to develop a cyber-operations design and bring it to fruition. At the conclusion of the course, you will have a fundamental understanding of how to analyze, plan for, and execute cyberspace operations.

ICWOD Class during Cyber Ops planning using the MCPP.

What You’ll Learn

• Cyberspace operations methodologies
• Integration of cyberspace capabilities
• The role of Information Assurance in cyberspace operations
• Training and developing the cyber workforce
• Designing cyber related organizations

Mr. Roger Kuhn (CSFI Instructor)

CSFI would like to thank the hospitality of the Romanian people, DEFCAMP, and also to congratulate this phenomenal international group of students to include Italy, South Korea and the Czech Republic.

Filed under: CYBER WARFARE, CYBERSPACE OPERATIONS, DEFCAMP, Paul de Souza, Roger Kuhn