Jacob Foster Davis, Author at Cyber Dominance

Apr262019 by Jacob Foster DavisNo Comments

My Cybersecurity Website Just Got Hacked. I Didn’t Flinch.

Case Studies, Cyber, Cyber Dominance, Dominance

The best get hacked; it happens. It's not about being unhackable, it's about rolling with the punches and being resilient. Learn the story of the most recent hack affecting CyberDominance.com. It's a story about how doing the simple things well can save you a lot of anguish - and how you can always achieve Cyber Dominance. (more…)

Jan302019 by Jacob Foster DavisNo Comments

The Tragedy of the Champion

Dominance

Picture it: The Champ. This courageous contender has just achieved the pinnacle station. Maybe it is boxing. Maybe it is business. Maybe it is war. (more…)

Dec102018 by Jacob Foster DavisNo Comments

Yes, You Do Want to Dominate Others: The battle of dominance vs superiority

Dominance

Despite popular claims to the contrary, you - and everyone else - want to dominate. You want to have what you want, when you want it, despite any opponent. Don't fool around with words like, "superiority," "advantage," and "supremacy." (more…)

Nov52018 by Jacob Foster DavisNo Comments

Achieve Cyber Dominance: The Six Critical Controls

Cyber Dominance, Cyber Dominance Theory

Want to achieve Dominance in the Cyber Domain? Learn to control yourself and your opponent with the Six Critical Controls of Cyber Dominance Theory. Dominance: It's About Control. Why do we fight in the Cyber Domain? Cyber Dominance Theory answers: so that you can get what you want, when you want it. You want secure data? Done. You want a website with no downtime? You got it. You want Cyber Dominance. The daily struggle to achieve Cyber Dominance is Cyber Warfare. Whether or not you wanted to join the fight, you are a part of it. So prepare to defend yourself - or prepare to be a casualty of the war. Every battle of the Cyber War is about one thing: control. He who has control gets what he wants,…

Oct12018 by Jacob Foster DavisNo Comments

How to Encrypt Your Email for Free

Cyber, Cyber Security Fundamentals

Learn how to keep your emails private and your friends safe by encrypting your emails on your home computer or phone. Learn the fundamentals of how email encryption and email signing works - and keep hackers from impersonating you. (more…)

Sep72018 by Jacob Foster Davis1 Comment

Humans vs Cyber Security Tools. Which one serves the other?

Cyber, Cyber Creativity

Unleash the power of your HUMAN potential in the cyber war. Use cyber security tools and techniques that put the human first - not the data. The power of computers is essential for cyber defense, but the human is often ignored. Should you continue to spend money and time investing in faster computers, better analytic tools, and fancy machine learning software? Perhaps, but you should also consider that the humans are the most important part of the system, and that they can contribute in unique ways. (more…)

Oct52017 by Jacob Foster Davis3 Comments

General Dominance Theory, SECOND EDITION Released

Cyber Dominance Theory, Dominance, General Dominance Theory

The latest update to General Dominance Theory was released last week. This is the first major update since the original work was published in 2014, and includes improvements to terminology and introduces the concept of the Desired End State Space, a tool to help cyber warfighters focus time and money on goals that will lead to success in the cyber domain. (more…)

May222017 by Jacob Foster Davis1 Comment

CyberDominance.com Launches Cyber Perception Center

Cyber Dominance

Today CyberDominance.com launched a new (and free) "Cyber Perception Center" to help small-business, security professionals, and average-joes keep up with cyber news and real-time cyber events. (more…)

Feb22017 by Jacob Foster DavisNo Comments

Defend Against Distributed Denial of Service Attacks – Watch A Grocery Store

Cyber, Cyber Creativity

How can you defend your service from a distributed denial of service attack? The Answer is at the grocery store. Distribute your service to force your adversary to divide his forces or be ineffective. The Challenge of Distributed Denial of Service Attacks A Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS) aims to flood a computer providing a service (e.g. a web server) with so many requests from so many different sources that your server is overloaded and service is either degraded (i.e. very slow) or denied (by crashing the server). This is similar to a website running slowly when it is being used a lot by legitimate users, except that the degradation is deliberate and intends to deny legitimate users access to the service temporarily or permenantly. (more…)

Jan252017 by Jacob Foster DavisNo Comments

CyberDominance.com is the Home of Cyber Dominance Theory

Cyber Dominance, Cyber Dominance Theory

CyberDominance.com is the home of Cyber Dominance Theory (CDT). Cyber Dominance Theory is an application of General Dominance Theory. It provides guidelines for how to achieve dominance in the Cyber Domain. All developments in CDT will be published and discussed on CyberDominance.com. Introduction to Cyber Dominance Theory Cyber Dominance Theory is the guide to achieving Cyber Dominance. At the core, it combination of two concepts: General Dominance Theory, and Cyber Security Fundamentals. General Dominance Theory. GDT, originally developed for Navy Information warfare, is a guide for achieving dominance in any domain. Cyber Security Fundamentals. The topical technical knowledge related to computer and network security, and the behavior of the people who use them. General Dominance Theory -> Cyber Dominance Theory General Dominance Theory (GDT) can be applied to any domain. To apply it to the cyber domain, we…