Sun Tzu - Profile of a Corporate Spy

Brand Killer Robots reveal::

Your surviving spy must be a man of keen

intellect, though in outward appearance

a fool; of shabby exterior, but

with a will of iron.

He must be active, robust, endowed with

physical strength and courage:

Thoroughly accoustomed to all sorts of dirty

work, able to endure hunger and cold,

and put up with shame and ignominy.

Sun Tzu (5th Century BC)

Could this overmotivated character possibly kill my business?

Brand Killer Robots reveal::

Much emphasis is placed in business on motivating staff to do the best job they can for the company. There are training days, company presentations, brainstorming sessions, staff incentive trips and team building days where you and your colleagues head into the forest to shoot paint balls at each other. Whilst clearly attempting to address the requirement for achieving more from the human resources available in terms of performance and even perhaps sustained loyalty, what such approaches do not address are concerns surrounding those staff who are very clearly - overmotivated!

Many managers would ask whether such a thing exists and how significant a threat it could be, but in the world of criminality and espionage - the answer is very clearly - YES and YES!

Take for example the crippled manufacturing company who head hunted a senior manager from a competitior, only to find that he was directing operations in such a way as to steer them into even greater troubled waters. Or the analyst who was felt to be an excellent and profitable acquisition by the CEO of the company, only to find he was a mole for a potential acquisition and merger candidate. How about the Claims Director of a leading insurance company who came highly recommended for his ability to get the job done - and when he did get the job done the insurer was hit by a series of seemingly innocous claims, the monies of which mysteriously found their way into his bank account!

What these people had in common (apart from that they were all cheating criminals) was that all exhibited the behaviour of over-motivated people. In fact it was in the noise of over-motivation that they were best able to hide their own motives. So they shouted and shape-shifted around the organisation to create the impression to shareholders that A. they were there to get the job done and B. to hide what they were really up to.

So next time you find yourself witnessing overmotivation - ask yourself ....

"Could this overmotivated character possibly be killing my business?".

Counter-propoganda method being tested on disruptive websites

Brand Killer Robots reveal::

"Swarm" is a new methodology for counter-propoganda which is being tested on various deliberately disruptive websites around the Internet. The communications methodology has been extremely successful in terms of the number of responses to a provocative article within a forum thread and the volume of views that the associated pages get.

In one particular news forum on a conspiracy site, posts stayed in the top 2% for over 3 weeks, receiving over 300 responses and 5,000 views. The second highest next to the top news item which was a story of horrendous proportions - that seemed to keep this supposedly enlightened audience very interested indeed.

Average number of visitors to the news forum was about 100 per day out of a total average of 250 per day.

"Swarm" was designed to disrupt apathetic and potentially dangerous channels of communications on the internet, through indirect lines of controlled provocative conversation.

If you would like more information on "Swarm", email Stephen, the designer at intrench@gmail.com.

Defense Strategies: We will have become survivable systems!

Brand Security Expert reveals::

We know when we are weak. We know where we are weak. We know where they are likely to attack us. We know they outnumber us. We know if they concentrated their forces at our door long enough we would be wiped away in a short time.

For this reason we never remain still. We are never in one place long enough to become a good target. With us, there is no fixed reference point. There is no team on a grid.
There is only a target and then no target.

TARGET THEN NO TARGET.
TARGET THEN NO TARGET.

Our defence lies not in the installation of brick walls and firewalls, but in our ability to remain fluid, like phantoms in the wilderness. We are neither here nor there. Neither Spirit nor form. Infiltration is not an option even if a fixed reference point is acquired, GIVEN WE SEE ALL IN OUR PATH. We never interact in a way where we can be corrupted. We never utilise the services of anyone unless we remain hidden.

There can be no danger of infection given there is never anything to infect. As the dust settles so we move on.
When the beast strikes at us, the most they strike at is one of our tails. If there is ever a time where they score, then the tail detaches and we attach a new one and move on.
We can never be beaten in any world because it is the spirit that carries our message and creates the will to fight for the cause to save humanity from the evil ones.
If any other form of defense be required then let those who need one beware that what they try and protect is surely at great risk.

For fixed bricks and mortar and infrastructure of any kind are easy prey to the mercenaries that operate at the heart of the underworld.
Let every man and woman be empowered to defend themselves. Let every citizen be capable to operate at a more enlightened level.

To operate the defence strategy of:
TARGET THEN NO TARGET. TARGET THEN NO TARGET.

Then we will all give the beasts a run for their money.
Then they will be challenged at every point of entry on the Internet. Educate the citizens to fend for themselves and the world will have a greatly more powerful force to go up against the black hats.

THEN WE WILL ALL BECOME LIKE GHOSTS ON THE INTERNET.

WE WILL HAVE BECOME SURVIVABLE SYSTEMS.

Enemies will continue to attack systems, within the context of the current, flawed, security paradigm

Brand Killer Robots reveal::

A paradigm is a frame of mind. A paradigm-shift is a change in your frame of mind.

Many organisations endure the conventional security paradigm that computer systems are inherently insecure. This leads to a self fulfilling prophecy that ensures that computer systems are indeed never secure.

Solutions and suppliers are chosen on the basis of what and who will reduce the risk and not on the basis of who will reduce uncertainty to zero. In fact it is a conventional norm that security can never be assured and that some element of risk will always exist.

I am writing to you to tell you that it is now no longer necessary to accept insecurity, risk or uncertainty in relation to your computer systems anymore.

You will have no need for insurance cover in relation to computer data protection, given there will simply be no risk to underwrite.

If you want to reduce uncertainty to zero, you need to change paradigm. Change the way you think.

If you don’t, we feel sure your enemies will continue to attack your systems, within the context of the current, flawed, security paradigm.