Insights

GSS Senior Advisor Sean Plankey provides insightful, balanced approaches to cyber and physical security for our Nation’s critical infrastructure private sector operators. While in government he led efforts for Cyber Testing for Resilient Industrial Control Systems (CyTRICS), Cyber informed, Consequence Based Engineering (CCE), and drove funding for Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CyManII) to strengthen our…

Dr. Brandon Valeriano delivers an insightful analysis of Russia’s utilization of cyber operations during the Russo-Ukrainian War. Presented at the Edna Anderson-Taylor Communication Institute on March 23, 2023, this lecture provides crucial insights into the evolving nature of cyber warfare and its impact on geopolitical conflicts. Dr. Valeriano, a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Marine…

GSS Senior Advisor David Zikusoka writing for War on the Rocks discusses how after decades of war in the Middle East, the joint force is retooling to pierce the bubble of China’s formidable anti-access, area-denial defenses. The national defense strategy calls China the pacing challenge and Defense Department officials have called a cross-strait Chinese invasion…

Gray Space Strategies is honored to call Rachel Coffman of Coffman Collaborative a Senior Advisor! Rachel was recently honored by the PRSA of West Virginia with a Crystal Award for “Best of West Virginia.” See more here.

Generative AI is used to produce a variety of content, including text and images. In this article,GSS Senior Advisor Karen Silverman outlines how to get the most out of these advancedtechnologies will require human cognitive skills. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/02/3-lessons-living-with-generative-ai/

Dr. Lori Dickes, a GSS Senior Advisor,  published the following study in Sustainability is an international, cross-disciplinary, scholarly, peer-reviewed and open access journal of environmental, cultural, economic, and social sustainability of human beings. The report discusses the impact of agritourism as an emerging facet of the modern tourism landscape by marrying the rustic allure of…

Shay Colson, Managing Partner at Intentional Cybersecurity and a GSS Senior Advisor, uses the impact of the SEC’s new Cyber Rule, specifically incident disclosure- one the most controversial and contested components of the newly issued rules. https://www.intentionalcyber.com/blog/the-real-impact-of-the-sec-cyber-rule-wont-be-incident-disclosures

GSS Senior Advisor Karen Evans, Partner at KE&T Partners, and Managing Director of the Cyber Readiness Institute and former E-gov Administrator at OMB, and former Chief Information Officer at the Department of Homeland Security, explains why she thinks the State Department’s transformation of its technology operation to better serve its end users, known as “Tech…

Check out this great podcast on GSS Senior Advisor Mike Plante. After defeating now Senator Joe Manchin in the 1996 gubernatorial primary, the only political race Manchin has ever lost, he brought Plante on as a political advisor: