Proactive: Acting in Participation...

How have you demonstrated your “Proactive” abilities this month?

Before you found your calling, were you spending wasted hours on social media or sitting places all alone.

After you became “Proactive,” the life changes were extraordinary and purposeful.

So what is the definition of PROACTIVE: “Acting in anticipation of future problems, needs, or changes.”

Whether you have joined other fellow colleagues with your Non-Profit (501c3) volunteer organization placing or picking-up hundreds of American Flags on the head stones of the “Fallen” after Memorial Day USA.

• Whether you have volunteered your days of time to help the Safety / Security presence at a Religious or Educational organization during an important service or meeting.
• Whether you engaged with others to attend a “Stop The Bleed” course to learn how to save other's lives.
• Whether you burned hours of your time for your Team on creating and planning an upcoming annual event for a thousand members.

How many Proactive hours of your time and expertise have you given free this month?

Being “Proactive” gives you the ability to learn new skills, meet new people and to provide valuable services to your community.

“People who tend to react to a problem only when it's gotten serious could be called reactive people. Until recently, reactive (in this sense) didn't really have an antonym. So proactive was coined to describe the kind of person who's always looking into the future in order to be prepared for anything.”

You see, this can provide you and your “Proactive Peers” with the heart felt satisfaction that you have a truly valuable purpose.

It provides you with the ability to engage with other like-minded individuals on the actions and the “Doing” that can truly make a difference in this world…

Godspeed!

OSINT: If Intelligence were a Baseball Game...

What is Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)? Why is it important to your security and safety? How can you really understand how it is the same or different than other types of intelligence? Let's use this clever baseball analogy:

If Intelligence were a baseball game....

IMINT takes a picture every day or so, trying to discern whose winning from sporadic snap-shots at different times of day, different angles of look.

SIGINT tries to bug the dug-out and discern how the game is going from comments by the players

HUMINT tries to recruit the batter, find out where he thinks he is going to hit the ball, and send a spy out to catch it if it ends up there.

MASINT tries to smell the player's armpits and the arc of the ball from leather secretly treated beforehand.

OSINT gives everyone in the audience a baseball glove, and counts the ball out if anyone in the stands catches the ball.

What's the point? OSINT is not a substitute for spies, satellites, or secrecy. It simply takes all the low-hanging fruit off the table so the secret sources and methods can focus. Put simply, OSINT changes the rules of the game--eliminates all the "home runs" by the enemy that need not occur if we harness the distributed intelligence of the audience--and allows the secret sources and methods to focus more carefully on what's left inside the playing field.

So what? Open source intelligence is available to everyone at the touch of a button, Google and others. Intelligent bots troll the net in search of its target. Looking for the answer to the algorithim created to answer the question posed by it's designer. When it finds what it is looking for it brings it home to the clandestine machine with Petabytes of RAID.

The people behind the question look for a pattern. The question or hypothesis is there to accomplish an important task. To find some relevance in a vast sea of “Zeros and Ones” beyond the human brains capability to grasp. No one person owns it and has the ability to keep it secret, forever. Somehow, someone will put this information into the open. Then it becomes OSINT.

The race isn't about keeping information safe from being stolen or revealed to others. It's about something else:

Jeff Jonas, the one time chief scientist and distinguished engineer at IBM’s entity analytic solutions group, had developed a means of sharing corporate data without revealing what that data contains.

This technology, called anonymization, effectively "shreds" information, making it possible for companies to share information about their customers with governments or other companies without giving away any personal data.

Over time, Jonas believed companies will increasingly use anonymization to defend their data, and corporate well-being, from competitors and identity thieves.

This story to be continued…