#OPM threat level System

[that1undertalefan]

Btw, if you guys wanted to know what power level is Terrortale sans... Let's use the OPM Threat levelling system...

TERRORTALE! Sans would be in between Demon and Dragon, so he's not TOO powerful. But he could probably still defeat some sans or papyrus AUs, like Cannon underfell or swaptale... MAYBE fandom Outertale... But he would be on par with horrortale or axetale. Just thought you guys needed to know that! And btw, this is just for information, TERRORTALE! sans Does not know about AU's. Later on the I'll probably be making another ask blog. Where does know about AU's, But that would be non-Cannon. The ask blog that i'm doing right now is cannon TERRORTALE! (Btw, if anyone ever wants to draw fan art of TERRORTALE! sans with the other undertale au's, He would not be on NIGHTMARES team, I forget what the other team is called, But he Would be on the other side, so yeah!) Please be kind to artists on tumbler, And have a fantastic day Everyone!

[subdee]

It's not a "buyout", Congress hasn't approved any budget for a buyout of 2 million federal employees. You agree to quit in Sept in exchange for being allowed to telework until then.

The goal is to trick people into training their replacements for 7 months and then replace competent federal workers with heritage foundation lackeys at every level of govt, as outlined in project 2025.

This one is Plan B in case the executive orders giving the executive branch the power to fire any govt employee for any reason and requiring all "policy making" positions to be political appointments get struck down by the courts or by Congress as being illegal overreach.

Really obviously a trap but if you send out 2 million emails right after terrorizing people with the threat of eliminating their funding and firing them later on down the road you'll probably get a few takers... All of the federal government just became a hostile work environment.

[theomnicode]

Climbing ranks, rising expectations

"You need to contact Caped Baldy...Saitama-sensei."

"That's all we need for countermeasures."

Against... a literal God. It's one thing to put a lot of trust into someone, it's another to dump the sole duty of saving everyone onto one person's shoulders.

Quite a lot of is being expected of Saitama, despite him not even remembering the half of it.

Bit over a week ago he was enjoying hot pot with friends and then he's tasked to go throw down with God empowered monsters and soon Blast is going to come to knock at his door and go like

"Yo, I heard you have space-time manipulation abilities, you need to come with me, we're going devote rest of our lives to fight against god if we must because you're the only one who can do this.

For a hero, quite a lot of is being asked of Saitama isn't he? What is expected of Saitama specifically whenever he rises in ranks is exponential increase in the difficulty of the task. He was C-rank hero when he busted a meteor, only recently promoted to B-class when he stopped Boros and still B-class when he fought Orochi and Godrou. The rank system is very skewed for Saitama and he doesn't even get paid to do any of this so he could live his life without having to worry if he can afford food.

Now that he is A-rank...what kind of insane exponential increase can we expect to happen in terms of difficulty of the tasks he has to face? The next step from fighting divine powered beings is basically fighting God itself. Or something equivalent.

The only things I can think that are equivalent to OPM God is well...himself. Because he is a "god." His inner struggles are quite legendary.

The pressure is on. From all angles. From family members to work to probably some other people who need some kind of assistance as well and public no doubt, more and more is being tasked on Saitama's shoulders alone.

All eggs in one basket is not a good look, reasonable, logical or a healthy one. Not to mention dangerous and prone to failure.

(Chapter 172 cover btw, HA learned the hard way with Metal Knight)

It does seem kind of outrageous in comparison to other heroes that Saitama's job duty seems to have become basically stop literal Gods from wiping out human race, Earth and the milky way, while other A-rank heroes still tussle with demon-level threat monsters and sip coffee in cafes in the meantime, or babysit rich people.

Then his job resume reads "assisted in couple fights" and that's it. What a nice track record innit? Wonder when he'll start to feel very underappreciated when Genos had to practically bully the HA just to get him to rank up...even if he reported things, what he actually does is so out there that nobody would believe him. He's practically a fraud too.

It's expected that Saitama would have to devote his entire being into doing his heroic duty, just because he is exceptionally strong. But where does that leave him? Fight God till he ages like Blast? Leave his loved ones behind to fend for themselves? Abandon his current life for the sake of duty and duty alone? Never be appreciated for anything he does because he'd have to work from the shadows and nobody would know?

Saitama does not need public adoration...but what he needs is his trusted, close people telling him he's doing a good job and doing the right thing. Else he can't find the motivation to even continue onward.

No matter how strong Saitama has become, such pressure put on one guy's shoulders can't be a good thing either. And he won't respond well to being forced to do anything, if someone actually started to bully him and tell him he must do this because HA now knows he has the capacity. There would only be pushback from Saitama if someone tries to tell him what to do and force him to do it.

Not only he'll lose all motivation to do his hero work, he'll grow to reset being a hero when he is most needed, if people were to surround him from all directions and pile him up with tasks only he is capable of doing, because he happened to get ultra strong.

Force him to be an ideal hero. Train him to be an ideal hero. Expect him to be an ideal hero and perfect and flawless.

And Saitama would still feel like it's his duty to go far and beyond the expectations and push himself to the brink of mental breakdown if that's what it took to get the job done, because if push comes to shove, he would do anything for the people he cares about. But he would be far from happy from doing so and quickly become highly stressed and reach burnout or something far worse.

Would he be able to have a support system in place in case he falls because he's still human and not an actual god, capable of solving every single problem?

Doubtful if the pressure to perform comes from one of the people who's support he needs the most. The one person who told the world what he can do and the information is already being put to use.

Despite him not even remembering how and what he can do.

Despite his failure in going against such an opponent like God who managed to take literally everything from him, aside from a single memento.

The cost of failure is far too great. But the fear of failing again would only lead to being paralyzed if he knew of the outcome. If he knew what his powers entailed and the memories of them. Doubting his own capabilities of being a hero is how he effectively kills his ability to be a hero in the first place.

There are certainly people who would be glad to see Saitama being put to his place and mentally breaking down too and would no doubt do much in their power to assist in this endeavour.

Especially if someone has dirt on him and would force him to act for the greater good. Public is fickle and it would be very simple to turn people against him.

Solidary is one of the few things that are very difficult to find. If he was to say...become a guardian of the human monster Garou and someone leaked that to the public...or even just helping him out by pulling few strings with the police since he has their favour, to get them off Garou's back when the rehabilitation part inevitably goes poorly...and public knew he was acquantainces with the human monster Garou, it would be a PR disaster.

It is not easy nor fair being Caped Baldy. Being a hero is not all that it's cracked up to be, huh?

The worst possible allocation of resources I can think of is Saitama needing to job hunt because he got fired from HA for not dancing to their tune cuz he needs to buy something as mundane as food and utilities, while OPM God is breathing down on everyone's necks.

[the-nysh]

Between MHA y OPM, which one do you think sells better the message "What makes a real hero?"

Hmm, it's hard to say. Since neither story is finished, but if you view both as separate studies exploring the 'hero' concept, then it's clear there's no one easy, simple answer for it. :O (bnha gets the benefit of being further along, almost to its completion, so it simply has more material to work with.)

It's clear that power alone doesn't make the man (or hero), if the person's behavior behind it is unfit for the task - if they're detached, non-committal, irresponsible, careless, self-serving, corrupt, uncompassionate, inhumane etc. But it's also clear that some level of power is required for even those with the best of hearts (Deku, Mumen etc) to enact their dreams of helping others into reality. So it's a bit of a catch-22 effect with limits and balance required.

And both angles are played with - those with power learn to awaken the better heart of a hero (Saitama included, since he has to reawaken what he feels he's lost sight of), and those driven with the heart of a hero (or strong sense of justice) learn to awaken power to be used in the right way, mistakes and all - such as Genos & Garou's paths. (Personally, I think how Hori splits this duality between his characters who thematically 'win & save,' and role-reversing them to learn the detriments of both sides taken to the extremes, while stressing how the proper balance/cooperation between them, including their levels of selfishness vs selflessness, is required to succeed, to be far more narratively clear-cut. As in, he's deliberately broken down the concept into its bare essentials, rather than exploring it as a more nebulous thing - such as thru Saitama slowly interacting with others, but yes more nuances are required.)

Also their settings requiring the reasons why heroes exist at all are different.

In bnha their established hero-saturated society is built on the inequality of quirks, the commercialization/idolization of heroes, the complacency of its civilians, and the dehumanization of villains (aka the outcast 'have-nots' with 'bad' socially unacceptable quirks, or 'bad' victims to the system itself) for their status quo of peace & order to 'work'.....but is currently spiraling on the edge of total collapse without some serious help & reform. (It supports guiding the next gen to succeed where the old gen has failed, and to collectively extend a helping hand to its villains who've never been saved.) It's a very relevant social commentary that stays grounded within the context of man-made problems (no supernatural, otherworldly interference), just taken to the extremes within the hypothetical idea 'what if everyone has powers?' (aka little kids would think a world like that’s pretty awesome, right? Wrong! it just makes things even shittier and more chaotic for everyone!)

In opm the general public doesn't have powers, and the profession of heroes is a fairly recent one (only several years old; not a generational thing) and more of an experimental solution to combat their world's very dire looming (cosmic?) threat of increasing monsterization. One of humanity's very survival on the line, because humanity will be destroyed (or succumb to monsterization themselves) if nothing is done. So a serious call to action is required (which is at odds with how un-serious Saitama conducts himself.) The story questions whether heroes are even needed at all, by proposing/critiquing it with other alternative (and pragmatic) solutions, but it's clear that the hope heroes bring in saving/inspiring/empowering more lives to survive and fight against the looming existential threat of despair, is still a very good thing. Whether the story will propose more collective solutions of coexistence and/or the saving of monsterized humans over their genocidal extermination, remains to be seen. But it's clear that Saitama alone, even wielding all the power in the universe within a single punch, cannot easily 'fix' all the problems of the opm world (or even those he personally suffers from within) by himself.

Bnha also makes it very clear that expecting a single, all-powerful idealized hero to uphold the entire structure of society's peace & hope on his shoulders is a very bad, unsustainable idea. As that hero's only human too, and he will eventually be crushed underfoot by those expectations. The pillar will crumble, and society will fall. Hori has proven it through the cautionary tale of All Might's character, so enabling the same self-destructive martyrdom (pure selflessness for the sake of duty) as his replacement is...whoops! Not going to work either. So in opm, characters like Sweet Mask proposing the 'ideal hero' solution, Garou trying to enact it and solve everything from his own perspective, or expecting Saitama to be that idol/pillar by himself is...welp welp. Still something in progress for all of them to figure out.

So in my opinion, there's a bit of back and forth (and overlap) on whether either series sells/explores the hero concept 'better' (or more thoroughly) when they have different circumstances and problems for their own heroes to solve. Since Hori is further along towards his story's completion, he simply has more real-estate down for his clear-cut ideas already, while ONE is comparatively still in progress. (And both stories still have yet to finish to determine how well they stick their landings.) Personally, I'm just glad to enjoy both stories (as in 'holy shit two cakes!' for double the enrichment) for the different themes and great characters they offer.

[gale-gentlepenguin]

Would Chat Blanc be higher than God? His very first action presumably wiped out humanity, and he nearly destroyed the entire galaxy...

Chat Blanc

Disaster Level: god+ (the OPM system doesn’t have anything beyond god. But I think Chat Blanc could theoretically make them create one.)

Yea... when you have the power to erase the world and potentially all of existence.

(Like even the Time Burrow) the power of INFINITE destruction makes one at the very least a threat to humanity. It’s already possible that he killed all of humanity before this. So yea, even if his best most destructive feat was the moon blast, that’s still god level.

So yea, Chat blanc is probably number 1

(Side note, I will be deleting repeats of akuma asks)

[gofancyninjaworld]

Who is worth saving?

You know, I’ve been thinking (yeah, so what else is new?).  Perhaps the single best reason for Narinki’s private squad to survive is that they’re human.  Not that they’ve got a further purpose in the story.  Not that they’re there to showcase anything.  Not that they’re high-value.  But that they’re human and as such, they have an intrinsic value that heroes will do anything to save.

When I started picking at the question, I realised that the issue of who is a hero supposed to save is a thorn-studded thread that runs through the story.

Truth be told, the Hero Association insulted a lot of heroes by insisting that they prioritise saving one rich kid over all else.  But they’re professionals.   Once they learn about Tareo, their actions make it really clear that money isn’t a reason to save or not save a person.

The disciples take it one step further.  Despite the mercenaries being outfitted with illegal power suits, they’re still happy to save them on the basis that they came there with good intentions.  So being ‘innocent’ isn’t a reason to save or not save a person.

If the end of the arc is anything like that of the webcomic, then Saitama is going to take it one step further still, when he rebukes Genos by saying ‘What’s there to decide? He [Garou] is human.’  Garou didn’t have good intentions and he’s been harmful.  From Saitama’s perspective, stopping Garou’s rampage and kicking his ass are appropriate responses to his actions.  Killing him isn’t.

I was going to stop here, but I kept thinking!  Yet more thoughts under the readmore

It’s one thing to save people regardless of income level, innocence, or importance.  It’s all very well saving the misguided as well, but what about the people who are actually bad?  Are they worth saving too?

On a lighter note, the idea of people being worth saving just because they’re human is something we see rock the world of the assassins sent to off King.  When they mistake his refusing to give out an autograph as protecting them too, they find themselves unable to harm him and resolve to quit their trade altogether. 

Interestingly, the Hero Association may not like crooks.  They may be happy to sanction heroes to catch crooks, but they don’t approve of killing them. Even nasty criminals like Sonic don’t get disaster levels.  He gets handed over to the justice system, which promptly imprisons him in a high security jail.  And under some circumstances, the HA is willing to look beyond criminality. Sicchi in particular has been keen to recruit criminals on the basis that the threats now facing mankind transcend concerns about misbehaviour.

Trouble with criminals is that heroes really hate them. The better we’ve come to understand how crapsack the OPM world is, the better we understand why heroes feel so strongly about criminals. Nothing splits heroes like what to do faced with someone maliciously criminal. There are some shining beacons of absolute saintliness like Mumen Rider, who’ll entrust a no-gooder to the justice system, cost what it may.  All the way on the other side, there’s those who are willing to shoot, shovel, and shut up about the ones they off rather than turn over to the police. Most heroes lie in-between. 

The deep ambivalence over what to do with bad people goes all the way to the top.  It’s not easy to persuade the Hero Association to give a person a disaster rating -- serial killers, sexual predators, drug dealers, arms dealers, human traffickers, none of them make the cut. It looks like a person needs to convince them that they present a potent threat to all humanity before they will countenance it. The webcomic has shown us what happens when a person *does* get a disaster level: their human rights are stripped from them faster than an ear of corn is shucked and they’re fair game.  Just as well the other executives kept refusing to consider Sicchi’s requests to give Garou a disaster rating -- it would have made for a very short story for Garou. 

The Hero Association knows they have heroes on their books who will kill without losing sleep over it.  Any argument that they don’t know what their heroes can do crumbles when we find out what they did when the destructive cyborg they’d been trailing knocked on their door to take the Hero Test. They didn’t just overlook the fact that Genos had been running around with illegal powered weapons.  They didn’t just give him a job.  They made him a Class S hero on the basis of his destroying the House of Evolution and everyone in it.  And he’s not the most lethal guy on their books.

So far, the story has drawn no conclusions about whether protection is a fundamental human right or a privilege that can be rescinded under some circumstances.  It’s clear though that for many heroes and allies, it’s a matter that they’re deeply ambivalent on.  I’m thinking too that if there’s going to be any issue that heroes come to blows over, it’s going to be this one:  Does a hero’s willingness to reach a hand out to anybody mean saving anybody at all?

[whyamiinopmhellagain]

Sangria Lightning

Amai Mask x Reader

**Trigger Warning, Mentions of Civilian Death, and Minor Violence!**

Part of the OPM Villain AU Drabble series (Masterlist here). 

I bothered @opmheadcanons​ a while ago with this, and he helped me with a scene, so thank you for that, dude! I think this was the first fic of mine I showed you!

“All of that fake, worthless scum.” He sighs, gazing down from his penthouse in City R. The chaos in the streets could only be akin to a threat level dragon rampaging through the city. People were lined up, begging for their lives. Alas, he was cruel. If you didn’t meet his standard, you didn’t live.   

“I told you this was a brilliant idea.” You step behind him, wrapping your arm around his waist. His red orbs gazing into your with a twisted sense of infatuation. You sink into his glare, running your other hand down his veiny neck, pressing a quick kiss to his cheek. “How’s the approval plan going? Are they submitting to the new rating system?”

“They seem to be submitting well, but there are some rebellions. And some uprisings, and the HA is still fighting us. And we’re losing City I, and-”

“Ssshhhh, my love.” You place your pointer on his lip, voice sweet like honey. Both of your hands wrap around his waist, as you bring your lips close to his, but just far enough away to taunt him with your bright lipstick. “Darling, master hunters don’t waste their time on rabbits. You have your wits, talents, beauty, sex appeal, although that’s mostly for me, our combined forces, and, of course, moi. Trust me, our vision will come true. Justice and peace will be the only thing in this world.” You press lips against his for a second too long to be considered a peck. “I promise, you handsome monster.” You tap his nose flirtatiously. 

“My, oh, my. You sure know how to rile me up, my love.” He touches your noses together. 

“Of course I do, I’m your wife.” You giggle lightly, eyes glowing the color of a sweet sangria. 

“I love your eyes.” He trails his hand down your cheek, twisting your head so he could get a closer look at the left.

“Thank you, but you are the true beauty.” You giggle back, drunk on his affections. 

 As a congregation of about 30 people forms to fight back against your soldiers, you hold your hand up to the sky, conjuring an orb of raw electricity about the size of your palm. The orb pulsates in time with your eyes. While staring into your husband’s eyes, you dismissively flick the orb down on to the crowd, reducing them to ash. 

“Obey or die!” You scream from the balcony. The people were still rioting, screaming foul language and declarations of war back to you. 

“Well, it seems they’ve made their choice.” You smirk at him. He returns the enthusiasm with a bite to his lower lip.  You swirl your right hand, solely because you didn't want to damage your ring, and clouds form right above your fingertips in response. After a couple seconds, you point your hand at the protesters. Sangria lightning strikes the ground, turning them all into ash, and not discriminating friend or foe. You both cannot bite back a laugh, as you fall into his arms at the sudden victory. 

“See, we’ve got this.”

“Why did I have any doubt?” 

“The world is ours.” Your lips meet for two seconds, he grabs your hand as your body glows the color of your eyes, you both jump over the railing, and fly off to change the world. 

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Alright, that was the first one, next one should be out in an hour! 

Requests open! 

[it-management-consulting]

The Future of Cloud Computing: Impact on Businesses, Workforces, and Societies

Author: Dr. Sri Gaddam (Doctor of Management), CEO, ERPA Group Over the past couple of years, there has been a lot of talk about cloud computing. What started off as a fleeting technology has now become a multi-billion dollar industry, with titans like Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services providing services to approximately 3.6 billion users worldwide. Believe it or not, around 45% of the world’s population has accessed some form of cloud computing over the past year.

Needless to say, this trend has major implications for businesses, workforces, and societies around the world. Whether end-users realize it or not, almost everything in their digital world is now connected to the cloud in one way or another. More importantly, cloud computing is set to become even more pervasive as technology giants and scrappy startups continue to invent new ways to organize, process, and present information remotely.

To highlight the exciting future of cloud computing, let’s dive into the impacts that this revolution in information technology will have on businesses, workforces, and societies alike.

Impact on Businesses

Whether or not you realize it, if you’re in business today then you’re also in the business of cloud computing. Cloud data centers are projected to process 94% of business workloads by 2021. This rapid transition is affecting all areas of business, from frontline employees to C-suite executives and everyone in between. Key impacts that cloud computing will have on businesses in the near future include:

• Improved Communication: The ubiquitous adoption of cloud infrastructure offers affordable and convenient business communication frameworks that may have been unavailable to some businesses in the past. Through the power of cloud computing, user-friendly video conferencing with remote employees, access to built-in call screening, and other useful features become obtainable advantages for any business. • Secure Collaboration: While traditional software suites rely on users to keep their systems up-to-date, cloud computing shifts this responsibility to vendors alone. Industry experts agree that cloud-based software is more secure than traditional solutions. This allows businesses to focus more on maximizing their potential and less on hidden security threats. • Optimized Customer Experience: With cloud computing, businesses can instantly access valuable information that helps them better serve their customers. Cloud solutions can directly connect businesses to customers through self-service portals and similar solutions. More importantly, businesses are empowered to offer optimized customer service and personalized digital interactions, which improves the overall customer experience. Clearly, the future of cloud computing is set to offer impressive benefits to businesses around the world. Along these same lines, cloud-based software is sure to positively impact individual employees and entire workforces as well.    Impact on Workforce The backbone of every business is its workforce. While economists have been predicting the impacts of automation for years, it’s safe to say that employees will still play a critical role in future business success. To this end, it’s worth highlighting a few of the notable benefits that cloud computing provides workforces: • Empower IT Professionals: Utilization of cloud-based systems provides the added benefit of empowering employees to make the most of their unique talents. For technical experts, enterprise-wide adoption of cloud solutions helps to ease the strain on in-house IT teams. As a result, IT professionals are able to focus on key business objectives, instead of having to dedicate countless hours to tedious help desk tasks. • Flexible Workflows: Cloud technologies empower all employees to work on alternative devices (think tablets and smartphones) without fear of losing data. Flexible workflows like this are especially useful in today’s world, where work-from-home is becoming the new normal. The adoption rate of cloud-based technologies for video conferencing and remote collaboration has increased in recent months. Looking forward, cloud computing will only become more important. • Increased Employee Satisfaction: While it may sound cliche, it’s been proven that happy employees are productive employees. Workforces that utilize cloud computing enjoy a host of benefits, which have the potential to increase employee satisfaction in the workplace. This gives workers the freedom to leverage their creativity, while at the same time helping employers to reduce turnover.

At the end of the day, employee attitudes and productivity can make or break the future of a company. While cloud computing wasn’t developed to improve employee sentiments, it provides several upsides that naturally benefit the workforce. Impact on Societies The rapid growth of cloud computing is a natural extension of modern innovations. Technology experts anticipate that in the future, cloud computing will pair with 5G connectivity, the internet of things (IoT), and big data services to completely redefine how people go about their daily lives. At the risk of sounding like a science-fiction novel, here are some of the exciting impacts that these technology pairs will have on societies around the world: • Ubiquitous Computing: 5G, cloud computing, and improvements in electronics manufacturing will likely combine to enable a world with ubiquitous computing. In the future, each and every item could include some level of computational power. If implemented, this paradigm will provide users with unlimited possibilities. • Democratized Education: Thanks to cloud-based education platforms like Coursera, students from industrialized nations now have the ability to access classes at any time and from anywhere. In the future, improvements in global connectivity will further democratize education, enabling students in developing countries to receive a high-quality education regardless of socioeconomic status. • The Rise of Digital Nomads: The concept of the digital nomad is centered on the idea that people can leverage advances in computing technologies to live, work, and play from anywhere in the world. As remote work gains widespread acceptance, an increasing number of people are expected to transition to this futuristic lifestyle.

These trends highlight the disruption created by cloud computing and related technologies. While the future is uncertain, rest assured that the continued rise of cloud computing will provide many benefits to businesses, workforces, and societies alike. The benefits highlighted above are only a few of the exciting developments that will come to pass. One thing is for certain: there’s no better time than today to adopt cloud computing in your business, workforce, or personal life. About the author Dr. Gaddam is a seasoned entrepreneur who launched three successful technology companies in the last seventeen years. Dr. Gaddam’ s greatest accomplishment lies in raising ERP Analysts, Inc. from a two-person organization to eighty-five million firms. ERP Analysts, Inc. has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies by Inc. 5000 for ten years, Deloitte Fast 500, & Business First Fast 50 for several years. ERP Analysts is recognized as a “Best Places to Work” in Ohio for several years (erpagroup.com). Dr. Gaddam graduated the Doctor of Management (DM) from Case Western Reserve University, MBA from the Ohio State University, and the Owner/President/Management program (OPM 43) from Harvard Business School. He is the author of the book “Destination Success: Discovering the Entrepreneurial Journey” and also co-author of “Roadmap to Success,” with Deepak Chopra, Ken Blanchard, and other entrepreneurial leaders

[tranxendance]

My rewatch of One Punch Man was partially selfish, to ‘win an argument’ of sorts. A friend of mine claimed that protagonists that are mostly strong and just and defined by little else are boring, and that taking a long time to tell a story is bad. While OPM is only 12 episodes, I realized going through it that the story is more than just that.

Some history. One Punch Man started off as a web manga. Most people know that by now, the strength of ONE’s storytelling was enough that they got an actual staff to sign on and good artists to redraw it as a manga, and then the legendary Studio Madhouse to adapt that to an anime in their usual lavish style.

Now, One Punch Man is a story about an amateur superhero ‘Who’s a hero for fun’. He’s super strong and seemingly invulnerable and says he got that way just by doing some basic exercises, implying he was already pretty much at superhuman status without even working out at all, and we see a non-superpowered Saitama in his first fight to save an ungrateful and ugly child, and that’s his beginning of being a superhero. He dons an ugly, homemade costume and watches the news for major disasters to help out with, and does bargain grocery shopping because he’s perpetually unemployed. Then, he joins the Superhero Association and despite beating all the records for physical ability, bombs the written portion and gets ranked as the lowest class of hero, mostly the type that stops purse snatchers. Even as an official, employed hero, he saves people from a threat that even defeated some S-rank heroes, and those people still think his lowly C rank is undeserved, that he’s faking it somehow, that he’s cheating the system and taking credit for other heroes’ work. Only the audience and his ‘disciple’, Genos, can see how strong Saitama really is. He arrives late to every fight so that the other heroes get in trouble and get hurt a bit before he saves the day in anticlimactic fashion, with one punch, hence the name. As a C-class hero, Saitama has quotas to meet, he has to solve x number of incidents per week or lose his status as an official Hero.

What I originally thought was a clever parody and inversion of the ‘overpowered but benevolent hero’ trope on first watch seems to be so much more. He certainly seems to be just like a Goku, showing up late with an even higher power level than before imagined and impressing everyone. But really this is a meta story about ONE and the production of One Punch Man as a whole. One’s artistic talent is quite poor, with shaky lines and lackluster character design that look like they wouldn’t be out of place on a schoolkid’s notebooks. And despite having real ability to write, his manga had to be self-published as a webmanga, probably because it was ugly to look at. People surely told him to quit trying to be a mangaka, to give it up, just like how common people tell Saitama to give it up. When he does ‘make it’ and get a staff to help him make his story, people still say that One Punch Man sucks and can’t compare to Goku or Dragonball. Even other Hero Association members don’t believe in Saitama, representing other mangaka in ONE’s career. Rarely, Saitama impresses someone that spends time with him, such as Mumen Rider who sends Saitama his first piece of positive fanmail. Finally, when he does make it to B-class, where the Anime ends, that represents where ONE has secured the deal for Madhouse to animate his project, there’s finally other people around him, helping him, although there are still lots of people who say he sucks and his popularity is undeserved.

So, if you’ve ever made creative work, especially if it’s your job, Saitama’s story is really about you. You know your work can be good, even if you get no recognition, if most people don’t want to give it a chance, don’t get discouraged. I’m your Genos that is rooting for you here.

[bountyofbeads]

'Shattered': Inside the secret battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age

https://news.yahoo.com/shattered-inside-the-secret-battle-to-save-americas-undercover-spies-in-the-digital-age-100029026.html

This is a fascinating look at the secretive CIA, the tools they use, as well as the ongoing fight for superiority and intelligence in the digital age. It also looks at how our national security has been compromised by devastating hacks by Russia, China, North Korea and and Iran. It's well worth the time.

SHATTERED: Inside The Secret Battle To Save America's Undercover Spies In The Digital Age

By Jenna McLaughlin and Zach Dorfman | Published December 30, 2019 5:00 AM ET | Yahoo News | Posted December 30, 2019 |

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When hackers began slipping into computer systems at the Office of Personnel Management in the spring of 2014, no one inside that federal agency could have predicted the potential scale and magnitude of the damage. Over the next six months, those hackers — later identified as working for the Chinese government — stole data on nearly 22 million former and current American civil servants, including intelligence officials.

The data breach, which included fingerprints, personnel records and security clearance background information, shook the intelligence community to its core. Among the hacked information’s other uses, Beijing had acquired a potential way to identify large numbers of undercover spies working for the U.S. government. The fallout from the hack was intense, with the CIA reportedly pulling its officers out of China. (The director of national intelligence later denied this withdrawal.)

Personal data was being weaponized like never before. In one previously unreported incident, around the time of the OPM hack, senior intelligence officials realized that the Kremlin was quickly able to identify new CIA officers in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow — likely based on the differences in pay between diplomats, details on past service in “hardship” posts, speedy promotions and other digital clues, say four former intelligence officials. Those clues, they surmised, could have come from access to the OPM data, possibly shared by the Chinese, or some other way, say former officials.

The OPM hack was a watershed moment, ushering in an era when big data and other digital tools may render methods of traditional human intelligence gathering extinct, say former officials. It is part of an evolution that poses one of the most significant challenges to undercover intelligence work in at least a half century — and probably much longer.

The familiar trope of Jason Bourne movies and John le Carré novels where spies open secret safes filled with false passports and interchangeable identities is already a relic, say former officials — swept away by technological changes so profound that they're forcing the CIA to reconsider everything from how and where it recruits officers to where it trains potential agency personnel. Instead, the spread of new tools like facial recognition at border crossings and airports and widespread internet-connected surveillance cameras in major cities is wiping away in a matter of years carefully honed tradecraft that took intelligence experts decades to perfect.

Though U.S. technical capabilities can collect reams of data, human intelligence remains critical. In 2016, for example, a high-level Russian asset recruited by the CIA confirmed that Russian President Vladimir Putin had personally ordered plans to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.  After fleeing to the United States, that same covert source was forced to relocate because of his digital trail. Without the ability to send undercover intelligence officers overseas to recruit or meet sources face to face, this type of intelligence might all but disappear, creating a blind spot for U.S. policymakers.

During a summit of Western intelligence agencies in early 2019, officials wrestled with the challenges of protecting their employees’ identities in the digital age, concluding that there was no silver bullet. “We still haven’t figured out this problem,” says a Western intelligence chief who attended the meeting. Such conversations have left intelligence leaders weighing an uncomfortable question: Is spying as we know it over?

Some have tried to address this crisis. Within the last decade, the CIA assembled a diverse group of intelligence personnel to create the Station of the Future — an ambitious Silicon Valley-style startup costing millions and nestled within a diplomatic facility in Latin America where a team of top spies tried to imagine, build and test innovative tools and techniques that could withstand the digital barrage.

But the project, which has not been previously reported on, was battered by bureaucratic resistance and hollowed out by financial and administrative neglect; it died an unceremonious death over the last few years. What began as a bold experiment was eventually reduced to what other agency officials saw as simply an expensive proposal to design an open-office floor plan for CIA outposts around the world, say two former intelligence officials.

The Station of the Future was just one crack at tackling the challenges wrought by a world defined by pervasive digital footprints, biometric trackers and artificial intelligence — challenges that have bedeviled U.S. intelligence agencies and divided their senior leadership. So serious is the concern about biometric tracking that in late December the Defense Department’s chief intelligence official co-signed a memo, obtained by Yahoo News, advising all military personnel to avoid using consumer DNA kits, noting worries about surveillance, among other security concerns.

These problems are now being recognized by Congress as well. 

“Very few people, maybe shepherds in rural Afghanistan, don’t leave some form of digital trace today,” Rep. Jim Himes, who leads the House Intelligence subcommittee on advancing technology, told Yahoo News. “And that poses real opportunities in terms of identifying bad guys … but it also poses real challenges [in] keeping our people from being identified.”

Though the FBI and CIA declined to comment, current and former national security officials who spoke with Yahoo News said efforts to address these issues are underway. CIA Director Gina Haspel, who served decades undercover herself, has doubled down in support of sending spies overseas to track “hard targets,” like Russia and Iran.

These changes come at a critical time for the intelligence community. President Trump has made no secret of his disdain for his own intelligence agencies — an attitude underlined by his push to publicly name the anonymous CIA whistleblower whose complaint sparked the ongoing impeachment proceedings.

Whether the U.S. intelligence agencies will be able to make these radical changes is unclear, but without a fundamental transformation, officials warn, the nation faces an unprecedented crisis in its ability to collect human intelligence. While some believe that a return to tried and true tradecraft will be sufficient to protect undercover officers, others fear the business of human spying is in mortal peril and that the crisis will ultimately force the U.S. intelligence community to rethink its entire enterprise.

The following account, based on interviews with more than 40 current and former U.S. and Western intelligence officials, reveals previously unreported CIA and FBI cover programs and operations, and details U.S. intelligence agencies’ deep relationship with the private sector in facilitating these efforts. These officials, most of whom requested anonymity to discuss sensitive government matters, also described high-level deliberations within U.S. spy agencies about the digital threat to cover, and how U.S. adversaries are themselves responding to digital pressures and opportunities. Many believe that, despite the numerous benefits provided by technology, the protection of undercover spies’ identities is becoming next to impossible.

“The foundations of the business of espionage have been shattered,” says Duyane Norman, a former senior CIA official and architect of the Station of the Future project. “We haven’t acknowledged it organizationally within CIA, and some are still in denial. The debate is like the one surrounding climate change. Anyone who says otherwise just isn’t looking at the facts.”

The beginning of the CIA’s cover and tradecraft crisis dates back to at least February 2003, when a Muslim cleric known as Abu Omar disappeared off the street in Milan. He didn’t resurface until 2004, when he called his wife from Cairo to tell her about his kidnapping, detention and torture at the hands of the CIA.

Italian investigators, eager to get to the bottom of the audacious abduction on their streets, were later able to track a web of cellphones communicating only with each other in close proximity to the disappearance, leading them to a series of hotel bills, credit card statements and other identifying indicators, according to a 2007 investigation unveiled at an annual hacker conference in 2013. Italian authorities charged 23 Americans, including the CIA’s former Milan station chief, for their roles in the scheme — most in absentia.

While Omar was just one target of the CIA’s aggressive post-9/11 antiterrorism campaign, several former intelligence officials described the Milan operation’s aftermath as a “come to Jesus” moment that revealed just how vulnerable the agency’s operators were to technology. At the time, some undercover officials naively believed that methods like using potato chip bags would mask cellphone signals, and operatives were generally “freewheeling,” according to one former senior intelligence official. In the space of a few short years, the rapid advance of technology, including nascent international surveillance systems, increasingly endangered the CIA’s traditional human intelligence gathering.

Singapore was one example, recall three former intelligence officials. By the early 2000s, the agency ceased running certain types of operations in the Southeast Asian city-state, because of the sweeping digital surveillance there. The Singaporeans had developed a database that incorporated real-time flight, customs, hotel and taxicab data. If it took too long for a traveler to get from the airport to a hotel in a taxi, the anomaly would trigger an alert in Singaporean security systems. “If there was a gap, they’d go to the hotel, they could flip on the TVs and phones and monitor what was going on” in the room of the suspicious traveler, says the same former senior intelligence official. “They had everything so wired.”

“You used to be able to fly into a country on one name and have meetings in another,” recalls this person. “It limited a lot of capabilities.”

The Singaporean Embassy in Washington did not respond to a request for comment.

Those concerns spread to other places, like London, where CCTV cameras are omnipresent, and the United Arab Emirates, where facial recognition is ubiquitous at the airport. Today there are “about 30 countries” where CIA officers are no longer followed on the way to meetings because local governments no longer see the need, given that surveillance in those countries is so pervasive, said Dawn Meyerriecks, the CIA’s deputy director for science and technology, in a 2018 speech.

In the 2000s, the explosion in biometrics — such as fingerprints, facial recognition and iris scans — propelled the conversation forward, according to multiple former intelligence officials. U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that in many parts of the world, within a short time, all alias work would likely become impossible.

These fears were largely borne out, say former CIA officials — especially in “hard target” countries like China and Iran. But this trend also affected CIA operations in friendlier countries. By 2012, recalls one former official, some officers were temporarily forbidden to travel for missions in the European Union over fear of exposure, due to widespread sharing of airport biometric data between EU member states. “Facial recognition and biometrics make it very difficult to travel in alias,” says Mike Morell, former acting CIA director and host of the “Intelligence Matters” podcast.

The rise in popularity of consumer DNA kits, which allow people to send in samples of their own DNA, is a growing part of the biometrics problem. Even if an undercover operative hasn’t used a consumer DNA kit, it’s highly likely, say experts, that one of their close relatives has. The Pentagon’s Dec. 20 warning to members of the military not to use these kits appears to be partly in response to that threat.

Greg Hampikian, a biologist at Boise State University and a leading DNA expert, says that with the advent of commercial genetic databases, exposing a spy or other covert operative could be as easy as taking a saliva sample from a cigarette butt or a drinking cup. A suspicious foreign government could send the sample in and potentially find out if the person has been operating under an assumed name.

“It’s right out of a spy novel,” he says.

For spy services, biometric data has become a highly valued currency — leading to a widespread and ongoing campaign by the U.S. and its allies, as well as hostile states, to hack into biometric databases from important airports worldwide. The U.S. has spearheaded breaches of its own, successfully hacking biometric data from the Dubai and Abu Dhabi airports, says a former official. Stealing biometric databases is an attractive strategy for other countries as well. In one case, Chinese intelligence successfully hacked into the biometric data from Bangkok’s airport. “The Chinese have consistently extracted data from all the major transit hubs in the world,” says another former senior official.

The Chinese Embassy in Washington did not respond to a request for comment.

Even before the explosion in biometrics, the CIA sought to take advantage of the new digitized era of border control, working with, and training, other allied countries in the mid-2000s on how to use certain software to identify false passports and other forged documentation, say two former officials. But aside from the obvious information-sharing benefits of this arrangement, officials also discussed inserting a secret backdoor into the software that would allow the agency to surveil participating countries’ passport control systems — and to manipulate the program to allow CIA operatives to slip in and out of these countries undetected, the officials say. Something like these alterations was carried out, says one of the officials, with CIA operatives “moving more freely in and out of Middle Eastern countries than they should have been able to.”

CIA officials also concluded that the days of operating under multiple personas in a single country were over, and began moving toward a “one country, one alias” rule. Undercover officers could no longer fly into a country on one passport and use a separate ID to check into a hotel, and all future trips to that country had to be conducted under the same fake identity. “It’s made the work much harder,” says a former senior agency official, who recalled a time when he possessed multiple fake IDs he kept in a safe for use within the country where he was based, as well as fake passport stamps. “You can’t do that now.”

Starting in 2009, the CIA learned an even more devastating lesson when the Iranian intelligence services, looking for a mole that had given up details on Tehran’s nuclear program, uncovered the agency’s web-based covert communication tools. The discovery set off a deadly chain of events, leading to the exposure — and in some cases death — of CIA sources in China and around the world, according to an investigation by Yahoo News in 2018.

The game was changing for undercover officers and their assets. “It’s extremely difficult now to run cover operations when so much is known and can be known about almost everybody,” says Joel Brenner, a former top counterintelligence official. “Now you show up at the border of Russia, they’ve got your high school yearbook out there where you wrote about your lifelong ambitions to work for the CIA. All that stuff is digitized.”

America’s adversaries were also forced to adapt. By the early 2010s, Chinese intelligence operatives started adopting old-school Russian-style tradecraft, like dead drops in the woods or “brush passes,” which involve surreptitiously exchanging objects in a public place, says one former senior intelligence official. “It was unheard of for the Chinese,” says this person. “The conclusion was that they felt the world was too digital and traceable.”

U.S. officials believed that Chinese intelligence may have shifted to more low- or no-tech methods after cracking the CIA’s covert communications system around this time, or because of training with their Russian counterparts, says this person. Russian intelligence operatives, meanwhile, began shifting their meetings with sources to countries with less sophisticated biometric systems, say two former senior officials, favoring certain Central and South American countries.

Peru was one such meeting place, says one of these former officials. In the United States, Russian and Chinese intelligence operatives have also transitioned into operating more under their true names, says this former senior official. “The Russians,” says this person, “have moved to traveling in plain sight.”

Nothing — not even the CIA’s most secretive human intelligence gathering programs — has been spared from this digital onslaught.

In the years after 9/11, the CIA invested heavily in sending more officers under nonofficial cover known as NOCs (pronounced “knocks”), who lack diplomatic recognition, into targeted areas, including al-Qaida strongholds, in order to glean on-the-ground information that CIA officers posing as diplomats might have trouble securing. The CIA was responding to lawmakers who slammed the agency for relying too heavily on “embassy cocktail parties” over embedding in extremist groups. The committees “pushed money on us,” recalls a former senior intelligence officer.

Even so, while Congress pressed the CIA to use more NOCs, who often pose as businesspeople, the intelligence oversight committees were concerned about the officers’ security. In the 2006 Intelligence Authorization Act, the Senate Intelligence Committee demanded a report from the CIA that would address “the emerging threats posed by technological developments to NOC operations.”

By the late 2000s, Congress’s ambitions were dashed. These deep-cover spies working outside the embassies often didn’t speak local languages, their cover identities didn’t make sense and they were often stationed far away from anyone they might try to recruit. The effort was dubbed a “colossal flop,” according to the L.A. Times. It was a “failed multi-billion dollar” program “shot through with waste, fraud, and abuse,” according to a 2015 lawsuit filed by a former NOC.

Top CIA executives tasked a senior agency official in charge of the NOC program to initiate a vast paring back of these types of deployments, and instituted a moratorium on new recruitments — earning the enmity of a generation of CIA officials working under him, fairly or not, say two former senior officials. “Some of the NOCs out there were fat, dumb and happy, taking advantage of being a spy and a businessman,” recalled a former senior official.

In response to this downsizing, the agency searched for cheaper, more flexible alternatives to NOCs, ramping up its use of diversified cover officers, foreign nationals who are recruited to spy for the agency, often in areas where it is difficult for Americans to operate, say four former officials. Described by these officials as a sort of “asset on steroids,” these undercover officers undertake polygraphs and are given limited clandestine training, but are contractors rather than career employees, like NOCs.

Around 2010, the FBI also began experimenting with new ways of maintaining cover, particularly when trying to recruit foreigners on U.S. soil, through a new initiative known as the National Security Recruitment Program, according to five former officials. The FBI program, which has not been previously reported on, involved close cooperation with the CIA’s National Resources Division, the agency’s clandestine domestic operational wing.

The program deployed U.S. officials under very light cover, with false backstories and business cards but lacking online footprints or connections to long-running brick-and-mortar undercover operations. That way, officials could approach individuals who had potentially useful information with some level of plausible deniability. The CIA helped provide funding for the FBI program, and FBI and CIA officials paired up in major American cities. While the program was successful, it was met with bureaucratic pushback and was ended by 2014 amid a turf battle, say former officials.

One roadblock, say former senior officials, was the bureau’s long-standing national program for creating legends — that is, fake backstories and identities — and cover, known as Stagehand. The program, based out of Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta and other major American cities, sets up and maintains undercover FBI operations. Stagehand employees purchase cars, rent office space, buy homes, design cover identities for FBI officials, create fake companies and buy real ones, say six former officials. 

The bureau employs former real estate brokers, physicians and dentists, among others, who become FBI agents but can assume their former jobs as needed, recalls a former senior official. “The deepest layer [of cover] might begin years before you even use it,” the official says.

But the program was saddled by bureaucratic red tape and was sometimes “sloppy,” says one former senior official. A second former senior official recalls the closure of an undercover operation based out of a 100-person office space in the San Francisco Bay Area because of “careless activity by FBI employees” and “possible digital compromise.”

In recent years, the bureau has stopped relying on Stagehand for especially sensitive counterintelligence operations because of fears that the entire program has been compromised, says one former senior official. In a 2017 letter to then-FBI Director James Comey, Sen. Chuck Grassley raised concerns about a potential compromise of Stagehand. A whistleblower alleged that “every single investigation or criminal prosecution that involved Stagehand between 2008 and 2011 was compromised, and the identities and sensitive information of FBI undercover agents were disclosed to foreign governments,” wrote Grassley.

A Miami real estate broker who worked with Stagehand and was convicted of embezzling over $60,000 in FBI funds was the source of the potential compromise, according to a 2016 letter from the FBI to Grassley provided by the senator’s office to Yahoo News. As a result, the Stagehand operations in Miami “were dissolved; assets were liquidated and personnel reassigned,” and “field offices that had received Stagehand services were made aware of potential compromise,” said the letter.

Meanwhile, as these efforts faltered, the CIA was looking toward its past to engineer its future. That meant that, by the early 2010s, the agency was once again ramping up its NOC programs — this time with a focus on recruiting and deploying spies in technical fields, such as predictive analytics or data brokerage, according to former officials. But the immense amount of data publicly available — with everything from retirement accounts to Social Security numbers being searchable online — increased the danger for undercover intelligence officers.

The NOC program, which was always expensive, was becoming even riskier, a concern that has prompted ongoing conversations within the agency about whether it’s worth the investment, according to two former officials.

One former NOC who served in China as an undercover businessman in the mid-2010s approached Congress with specific concerns about the program, says a former national security official. The NOC was frustrated that his colleagues lacked experience in the field, didn’t speak local languages and were expected to recruit unrealistic targets, like top political figures or very senior businesspeople.

The NOC believed there were fundamental problems with the program, says the same former official, as the people working at headquarters assigned to design legends had “no idea how business and finance work.”

By mid-decade, the agency concluded that the best way to hide was in plain sight. Nowadays, say former officials, NOCs must truly “live their cover” — that is, actually work as the professional engineer or businessperson that they present themselves to be. NOCs live and work under their true names, say former officials, though they are known to their CIA counterparts by a pseudonym. Fewer than 10 percent of individuals within the CIA’s Directorate of Operations regularly use alias passports or credit cards, says a former senior official.

The intelligence community has developed sophisticated “backstopping” procedures, which seed a cover story through web traffic, emails and other digital channels. But in an interconnected world, “good backstopping can be defeated in a Google search,” says one former senior intelligence official. Because of that reality, the use of front companies for NOCs has become increasingly untenable, necessitating closer coordination and cooperation with private American businesses for the placement and recruitment of NOCs, say former senior officials.

It’s not always easy, however. “The CIA is very good at this, but they are getting the door slammed in their face,” says one former senior official. In Silicon Valley, recalls another former senior official, it was difficult to convince these companies to participate. The situation got worse in 2013, when Edward Snowden, an intelligence contractor, gave a trove of classified documents to journalists, exposing the extent of tech companies’ cooperation with the National Security Agency. “Before, it was hard,” says this person, and “it was harder to do post-Snowden.”

Even a switch of employer, or an unexplained gap in one’s résumé, can be a giveaway to a foreign intelligence service, say former officials. In response, the agency has also shifted to recruiting individuals within the companies they already work at, and, with the approval of corporate leadership, secretly transitioning those persons onto the CIA payroll, and training them intermittently and clandestinely, far from any known CIA facility.

Sometimes, when these individuals are finished working for the agency, they simply transition back to a full-time job for the company where they already “work.” In one recent case, a NOC who had worked at a U.S. company as a “full-time career employee” and was transitioning out of his CIA work was “softly landed” back into another position at the same firm — with the agency paying for his moving expenses and a government severance package, says a former senior intelligence official.

The agency, which former officials say recruits and emplaces NOCs in the technology, finance and film industries, among other sectors, targets both major U.S. corporations and smaller U.S. companies, which are sometimes preferred because they are not beholden to shareholders.

Often, say former officials, only a few select executives within a company are aware of its relationship with the agency and the “real” identities of the people in their employ. To encourage or reward cooperation from businesses, agency officials will sometimes provide special, tailor-made briefings to executives on the political and economic climate of countries of business interest to that company, say two former officials.

“There is a serious legal and policy process” in place at the CIA to manage these relationships, says a former official. Otherwise, “you could break industries.”

By President Barack Obama’s second term, conversations and concerns about cover were ricocheting through executive offices at U.S. intelligence agencies. A special roundtable group was assembled at the CIA’s Directorate of Operations to work through the challenges wrought by the advancing digital age. And top FBI and CIA intelligence executives met together repeatedly to discuss how, and if, the practice of undercover human intelligence work could survive the 21st century.

The digital threat to cover “was a major issue, even before I arrived at the agency,” says Avril Haines, who served as CIA deputy director from 2013 to 2015. “One way to frame our approach to the many challenges posed by technology was to ‘do less, but do it better,’ which meant focusing on what was most important and then spending the time and resources needed to keep it secret. We had conversations with other allied services who were experiencing similar challenges.”

In late 2015, then-CIA Director John Brennan also created a new Directorate for Digital Innovation to focus on threats in the digital world and “safeguard the cover of our clandestine officers,” as part of Brennan’s wide-ranging modernization effort for the agency. It was “over 10 years” overdue, says a former CIA official, who believed its impact was stymied by turmoil within the agency over the broader reorganization.

By this time, massive amounts of digital records were being stolen — by insiders like Snowden and by adversaries like China, which also targeted private companies like Anthem, Marriott and others, in addition to spearheading two breaches into the OPM, which were revealed in 2015. The full extent of that theft, which included personal disclosure forms, clearance adjudication data and perhaps other linked intelligence community databases, has never been revealed.

“Part of the discussions we had was, post-OPM hack, we didn’t realize that digitizing government records profoundly changed the threat profile,” says a former senior national security official. The intelligence community did not fully understand how much of its own information was stored outside its own walls until personal data began being stolen by China en masse, says a former senior intelligence official.

For the bureau, the single biggest takeaway from these high-level discussions, say two former senior officials, was the need to create programs where undercover employees would have no link to the FBI whatsoever. That meant no training at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va.; no history of overt FBI work before being selected for undercover assignments; and no data trail of text messages or emails linking these personnel to the bureau in any form. It required a “monumental change in thinking,” says one of these former officials.

Generational issues have also frustrated officials. Recruitment to the CIA of younger people, particularly those born in the age of social media, has become more difficult, say former officials, with the agency lacking clearly defined policies for social media use. The CIA has adopted a position of “we’re not going to help you, but you better not do it wrong,” says one former agency official. Until a few years ago, agency officials were still counseling younger employees to quit social media, even though such behavior could be seen as suspicious, say former officials. The CIA still considers a Facebook friendship a “close and continuing relationship” for security purposes, say multiple former officials.

Bureaucratic slip-ups also remain a routine threat to cover. On at least one occasion, when the CIA sent a new alias package to an embassy overseas, the documents were placed on the desk of a foreign national employed there who was presumed to be working for the local hostile foreign intelligence service, says a former senior CIA official. CIA officers stationed in embassies were also provided with new cars and flat-screen TVs, unlike “real” diplomats, says the same person, a fact that frustrated diplomatic security officers.

But progress has been made on other fronts, say former officials, particularly in the creation of legends and alias documentation that can withstand digital scrutiny. The CIA’s alias documents are “the best in the world,” says a former senior official, because they’re real. For example, employees travel to the DMV to receive actual drivers’ licenses. At the CIA, a program called Checkpoint provides “tailored identity and travel intelligence products,” according to an agency document that WikiLeaks published in 2014.

By midway through the Obama administration, the CIA and FBI were creating “extensive digital legends with increasing sophistication,” as one former senior official puts it, with cooperation from key government agencies like the Social Security Administration, Health and Human Services and the IRS.

U.S. intelligence agencies also work with “friendly digital companies,” like commercially available ancestry databases, to alter personally identifying information, say former officials, and also backdate work histories. Concerned about digital leakage, and cognizant of the need to strictly quarantine deep-cover intelligence officials from their organizations, U.S. officials have adopted a strategy of “eclipsing” these individuals slowly into their cover identities before they are allowed to undertake their missions.

The CIA and FBI both concluded that every person connected to these organizations’ “black side” undercover programs had to be completely sealed off from the rest of their colleagues, say former officials. This firewall is an immensely complex undertaking in a world where electronic emissions from a single cellphone traveling, say, from CIA headquarters in Virginia to an unmarked office building nearby could blow multiple undercover operations. The FBI has also struggled with this transition. As of a few years ago, “none of this was completed yet, and none of it was even remotely being done easily,” says a former senior official.

The CIA, at least, had its own past practices to draw from, especially in its training of NOCs, say former officials. Years ago, the school for NOCs was entirely quarantined from that for normal future CIA operations officers, who undertake rigorous instruction at “the Farm,” a Williamsburg, Va.-area base, say two former senior officials. NOCs “never came to the East Coast” and were trained at separate secret facilities, says one of these former officials. But because of their often “rebellious” attitudes in the field, and in order to “increase their behavioral consistency,” senior CIA officials decided to move their instruction to the Farm. This move produced better-trained NOCs but also increased the threat of exposure. As of recently, the programs were sealed off from each other again, says a former senior official.

The pressures of the digital age have led the CIA to favor flexibility and deniability. The agency has formed a new reserve officer program to allow spies to work in the private sector, especially the tech industry, says a former intelligence official. The program is designed to allow those operatives to maintain their clearances so they can return seamlessly to the agency after a few years, says this person.

Another measure the CIA has used involves paying companies to gather intelligence for the government without even knowing it. In the last several years, the CIA has ramped up its use of “cutouts” to pay third parties to gather intelligence for them unwittingly, posing as data brokers looking into trends in the oil and gas industries, for example, says the same former official. 

The intelligence community needs to “think creatively about” intelligence collection, says Rep. Himes, who believes the traditional model of CIA officers who train in Virginia and then serve in an embassy overseas undercover will be difficult to continue. “This new panopticon that we’re beginning to live in” makes it “very hard to put people in physical proximity to each other,” says Himes. “That’s obviously dramatically true in some of the cities in China; it’s a little less true in La Paz, Bolivia. But nonetheless, there’s going to be a strong tidal pull away” from traditional human intelligence gathering, he says.

Yet he remains concerned about a tighter embrace between private industry and espionage. “We don’t, I think, want to be in a world where entire professions, whether it’s medical [workers] or journalists, are now at even more risk than they already are because people worry that they might be collecting intelligence,” says Himes.

If the old models of human intelligence gathering are compromised, the new alternatives may be inconsistent with democratic values, and it’s unclear what is — or whether there is — a good path forward. “Some people believe that within 10 years, espionage as we know it is going to be done,” says a former intelligence official.

Still, some within the CIA are sanguine about the future of the profession. “Anyone who says that human intelligence will become outdated is dead wrong,” says Marc Polymeropoulos, a recently retired CIA senior operations officer. “Intelligence services will always find ways to meet their agents.”

But even publicly, some intelligence officials are lamenting the dangers posed to cover, though they disagree over whether the problem can be addressed with new programs or procedures. Many are pessimistic that tweaking existing approaches will suffice.

“We can’t protect identities anymore. Tech is going to make it almost impossible. I think we need a new paradigm,” said Eric Haseltine, the former head of the NSA’s research directorate, at a lunch event in Washington in late October, when asked about the problem.

“Our officers overseas are known,” he said. “That’s a hard pill to swallow.”

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Sharon Weinberger contributed reporting to this article.

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Understanding Project Management and Its Relationship to Program and Portfolio Management

In this article we evidence discuss the activities involved and the kinship between portfolio management, program management, project direction and organizational project management.

In addition, we evidence seeming at the role projects have in strategic planning and finally we evidence discuss the project statute office and its importance.

Portfolios, programs and projects are all related and aligned to organizational strategy. In the same manner, portfolio management, program statute and project statute all contribute to the realization of the strategic aim of the convention in different ways.

The various activities of these three domain all relate to the organizational project management (OPM). Organizational project law is the systematic law of projects, programs, and portfolios in arrangement with the performance of strategic goals. The PMI concept of organizational project statute is based on the goal that there is a similarity between an organization's skill in project management, program management, and portfolio direction and the organization's productivity in dispensing strategy.

A program is a flights of projects that are similar in scope, activities, and have similar subprograms. The motive of a program is to manage the projects in a coordinated way.

Not all projects conducted within the organization evidence fall into the same program. however, programs will always have projects.

Program management involves rendering the surrender of knowledge, skills, supplies and techniques to the program in order for program necessity to be met.

Program direction focuses on the co-operation between the projects to determine the optimal approach to bearing them. Usually these projects are interdependent, for mold having the same resource requirements, governance composition and similar strategic organizational deportment along with this they may coalition similar issues and innovations law considerations.

Portfolio Management

The portfolio includes all programs, projects, and subprograms that meet a strategic objective of the organization. Programs and projects do not necessity to be related in order to be in the portfolio, the only requirement is to contribute the same overall strategic objective(s) of the organization. Portfolio management is the centralized statute of one or more portfolios that will help the organization achieve its overall strategic objectives, it is concerned with all projects and programs, fragment of the statute process is to ensure that all projects and programs have the proper repository allocation and that all programs and projects are aligned and maintenance the overall strategic goal of the organization.

Now we will seeming at projects and strategic planning

Projects should be created to directly or indirectly assist with the merit of an organisation's strategic objectives

Some strategic payment which lead to projects include:

Market move - Many trade are facing a time of innovations and great competition. It is important for association to recognize the needs of the show and respond appropriately. Because of the credits of responding quickly, effectively and cost efficiently projects are often initiated to address these issues or opportunities Strategic prospect or a enterprise need - A project may be initiated to develop new product or service in order to expand the organization, increase revenue, or solve a problem that business is encountering Social need - Projects are initiated to help a parish or flights of group solve issues the group may be facing. Environmental compensation - Companies today are continually looking for new track to improve their performance to be more "environmentally friendly". Customer request - Organizations are always looking for new direction to satisfy the needs and need of the customers, so a project may be hoax to meet a specific customer need. Technology advances, technology continually changes, as a result the products, services, and procedure of the custom must be continually improved to postponements in line with trends, occasion or threats caused by these developments Legal requirements, organizations are required to follow and meet certain legal position for their industries, project are often developed to meet these requirements. The Project Management Office

A project law compartment (PMO) is a management arrangement that is used to standardize project routine and also allow for the sharing of resources, methodologies, tools, and techniques.

The PMO can be supportive in nature. In this role, the PMO takes on a consultative role to projects by supplying templates, best practices, training, access to information and lessons learned from past projects. In the supportive role, the mastery rank the PMO over the specific project is low

The PMO tins also have a controlling role, in this role, the PMO would provide support and require conformance through various means. They include owning example project regulation practices and methodologies, using similar templates and tools. In the controlling role, the dominion level the PMO has over projects is considered moderate

Finally, the PMO can have the order role. In this role, the PMO takes direct mastery of the projects in its remit. In the command bureau the mastery level the PMO over the projects' processes is considered high.

The PMO can provide a great advantage to the custom through sharing information, identifying and implementing common methodologies, practice new project administrator and systemizing across different projects.

The office of the PMO testament be determined by the custom and the level of composition considered to be necessary

In general project administrator are still in charge of their individual projects and PMO is concerned with substructure policy and supplying food to all projects

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Lead Public Health Advisor (Direct Hire) - Atlanta, USA

epartment: Department of Health And Human Services

Agency: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Job Announcement Number: HHS-CDC-DH-20-10721497

SALARY RANGE: $113581.0 to $147652.0/Per Year

OPEN PERIOD: 2020-02-10 to 2020-02-19

SERIES & GRADE: GS-14/14

AGENCY MARKETING STATEMENT:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the agency Americans trust with their lives. As a global leader in public health, CDC is the nation's premier health promotion, prevention, and preparedness agency. Whether we are protecting the American people from public health threats, researching emerging diseases, or mobilizing public health programs with our domestic and international partners, we rely on our employees to make a real difference in the health and well-being of people here and around the world. This position is located in the This position is located in the Department of Health and Human Service (DHHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), located in Atlanta, GA. CDC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

JOB SUMMARY:

The incumbent serves as the principal advisor directing and overseeing multi-functional program activities involving a broad and complex range of public health programs that are operated domestically or abroad.

DUTIES:

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"As an Lead Public Health Advisor (Direct Hire) you will: Serve as the Team Lead and coordinate overall administrative and program activities to ensure successful program execution Lead the development of nationwide (or comparable scope) program operations and initiatives for assigned operating public health programs Perform expert analysis and prepare intricate, substantive study reports to cover study approach and methodologies, findings, and recommendations. Identify and evaluate information, data requirements, and resources to establish priorities and to maintain capacity to respond to internal and external demands. Establish and forge relationships with other local, national and/or international organizations to collaborate and facilitate the development and integration of operating public health program initiatives and activities across a broad area Serve as the principal manager of considerable budgets for assigned programs Perform other duties as assigned" ]

REQUIREMENTS:

US Citizenship is required. Background Investigation is required. E-Verify: If you are selected for this position, the documentation that you present for purposes of completing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Form I-9 will be verified through the DHS "E-Verify" System. Federal law requires DHS to use the E-Verify System to verify employment eligibility of all new hires, and as a condition of continued employment obligates the new hire to take affirmative steps to resolve any discrepancies identified by the system. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is an E-Verify Participant. Direct Deposit: All Federal employees are required to have Federal salary payments made by direct deposit to a financial institution of their choosing. All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement. One-year probationary period may be required. Travel, transportation, and moving expenses will be paid: No Bargaining Unit Position: No Drug Screening Required: No Recruitment Incentive may be authorized: No Annual Leave for non-federal service may be authorized: No Research position: No Promotion potential: No Supervisory position: No CDC Financial Disclosure -OGE form 450 Holding ourselves to a higher standard; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention inspires public confidence in its trust responsibilities and mission by maintaining high ethical principles. This position is subject to the confidential financial disclosure requirements of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (P.L. 95-521). Therefore, if selected, you will be required to complete a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 450) to determine if a conflict or an appearance of a conflict exists between your financial interest and your prospective position with the agency. This Information will be required annually. Public Trust/Moderate Background Investigation (5) is required

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:

Minimum Qualifications: Applicants must have one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-13 grade level of in the Federal service as defined in the next paragraph. Specialized experience is experience which is directly related to the position which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) to successfully perform the duties of the position to include experience leading, formulating, developing, evaluating and providing technical expertise relating to public health programs, polices, and activities.

HOW YOU WILL BE EVALUATED:

Once the application process is complete, a review of the resume and supporting documentation will be made and compared against your responses to the assessment questionnaire to determine if you are qualified for this job. If, after reviewing your resume and/or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and/or experience, you may lose consideration for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your eligibility. Your qualifications will be evaluated on the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics).Program Planning and DevelopmentPublic Health Knowledge

BENEFITS:

OTHER INFORMATION:

This announcement is being used to fill vacancies in support of OPM's Direct Hire Authority for the OPIOID Public Health Emergency Response positions. Vacancies will be filled through OPM's Direct Hire Authority for OPIOIDS. Veterans' preference and traditional rating and ranking of applicants do not apply to positions filled under this announcement. All applicants who meet the minimum qualification requirements will be forwarded to the selecting official for consideration. Applications received as a result of job fairs, recruitment events, and emergency hiring mechanisms in support of this hiring initiative will also be accepted during the duration of the direct-hire authority. For more information on OPM's authorization of Direct Hire Authority, please visit: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/hiring-information/direct-hire-authority/ Additional selections may be made within the same geographical location CDC-wide. If you are a veteran with preference eligibility and you are claiming 5-points veterans' preference, you must submit a copy of your DD-214 or other proof of eligibility. If you are claiming 10-point veterans' preference, you must also submit an SF-15, "Application for 10-Point Veterans' Preference" plus the proof required by that form. For more information on veterans' preference see http://www.fedshirevets.gov/job/vetpref/index.aspx. Males born after December 31, 1959 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service (see http://www.sss.gov). Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP): For information on how to apply as an ICTAP eligible see http://opm.gov/rif/employee_guides/career_transition.asp#ictap. To be well-qualified and exercise selection priority for this vacancy, displaced Federal employees must be rated at 85.0 or above on the rating criteria for this position. To view the questionnaire, click on the following link:

https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/10721497 If you are unable to apply online or need to fax a document(s), view the following link for information regarding an Alternate Application.

HOW TO APPLY:

To apply for this position, you must complete the online application and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section.

A complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on02/19/2020 of this announcement to receive consideration. To begin, click Apply to access the online application. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account to apply. If you do not have a USAJOBS account, you will need to create one before beginning the application. Follow the prompts to select your résumé and/or other supporting documents to be included with your application package. You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your application before it is submitted. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. After acknowledging you have reviewed your application package, complete the Include Personal Information section as you deem appropriate and click to continue with the application process. You will be taken to the online application which you must complete in order to apply for the position. Complete the online application, verify the required documentation is included with your application package, and submit the application. To verify the status of your application, log into your USAJOBS account (https://my.usajobs.gov/Account/Login), all of your applications will appear on the Welcome screen. The Application Status will appear along with the date your application was last updated. For information on what each Application Status means, visit: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/application/status/. If you cannot apply online: You are encouraged to apply online. If you are unable to apply online, please use the Alternate Application link listed in the Additional Information section of this vacancy announcement. Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply online if at all possible. Applying online, through your USAJOBS account, will expedite the application process and allow you to check your application. If you utilize the Alternate Application method, your USAJOBS account will not display this application and you will not receive status updates.

REQUIRED DOCUMENTS:

To apply for this position, you must submit a complete Application Package which includes: Your résumé showing work schedule, hours worked per week, dates of employment and duties performed. Other supporting documents: Cover Letter, optional Veterans Preference Documentation, if applicable Career Transition Assistance Program documentation, if applicable (e.g., Certification of Expected Separation, Reduction-In-Force Separation Notice, or Notice of Proposed Removal; SF-50 that documents the RIF separation action; and most recent performance appraisal). Failure to submit any of the above mentioned required documents will result in loss of consideration due to an incomplete application package. It is your responsibility to ensure all required documents have been submitted. For Résumé and Application Tips visit: https://help.usajobs.gov/index.php/Tips.

WHAT TO EXPECT NEXT:

Once the online questionnaire is received you will receive an acknowledgement email that your submission was successful. The most highly qualified candidates will be referred to the hiring manager for further consideration and possible interview. We expect to make a selection within 45 days of the closing date of this announcement. You will receive notice via email once this process is completed (generally 4-6 weeks).

AGENCY CONTACT INFO:

CDC HELPDESK

1600 Clifton Road NE

Atlanta GA US 30333

Telephone: (770) 488-1725

Email: HRCS@CDC.GOV

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There are approximately 1 trillion stars in the Andromeda Galaxy, one for every dollar in Apple’s current market capitalization. Andromeda is 2.5 million light-years distant from our own Milky Way, however, so by the time any Andromedans read this, Apple will be long gone, melted or drowned like the rest of the artifacts of our Ozymandian civilization. Meanwhile, Apple’s Cupertino, Calif., headquarters, a $5 billion 1970s shopping-mall food court, is nicknamed “the spaceship,” though apparently not because the space cadets it houses can’t seem to stop walking into the glass walls. For the privilege of hosting the world’s most valuable public company and 25,000 of its employees, the city of Cupertino collects an extraordinary $17,000 a year in tax revenue, something akin to the annual property tax on a nice five-bedroom in Nassau County, N.Y. A recent proposal to charge the company a head tax, increasing its annual contribution to $9.4 million—a burdensome two hundredths of 1 percent of Apple’s 2017 net income—was quashed on the vague promise that Apple would one day fund a local Hyperloop, a fantastical transportation technology that would put small train cars inside large versions of the pneumatic tubes from the drive-through bank your mom used to deposit checks into in 1986. It would move six or seven people at a time in a mere five minutes along a route that a tram carrying a hundred could traverse in ten. I guess what I am saying is that this number, 1 trillion, is absurd. It is also not terribly meaningful, except perhaps as a signpost on the route to the next recession. It is not, for instance, tied to any particular measurement of Apple’s performance as a company. Apple’s total balance-sheet assets are about $375 billion. At something like its present rate of profitability, it would take two more decades to earn a trillion bucks, and there is no particular reason to imagine it can indefinitely maintain current income levels. The iPhone is more than a decade old and hasn’t improved meaningfully in several generations. Newer iterations have mostly grown more inconvenient, as Apple has turned its innovative energies to selling dongles and otherwise scamming customers into its proprietary peripherals ecosystem to goose revenues. Its last really good device, the iPod, is dead. All that remains of that elegant little improvement on a Walkman is the bloated, gaseous carcass of iTunes, around which its poor customers clutter like seabed scavengers around a decomposing whale. Rather, its market capitalization, a pure reflection of stock price, is a product of speculation. Oh, sure, institutional investors care about quarterly earnings, but no one is really making bets on new products in the pipeline. They’re just watching pigeons fly like augurs in the ancient world. They are not investing in Apple; they are investing in Apple stock, something between a separate emanation and a magical élan vital. There are plenty of overvalued companies, and Apple is only the most ridiculous because of the combination of the transcendent hugeness of its valuation and the cultish devotion of its most avid consumers, who respond to the company’s ever-blander aesthetic like John Ruskin swooning over 19th-century Venice. But we should worry when whole trillion-dollar pieces of our economies are effectively make-believe, when, as was the case in 2007-2008 and in the dot-com blowup before that, a small spark of panic anywhere can swiftly cause a run on the whole rickety thing. And we should worry as well because companies like Apple, besides making gadgets, have essentially locked up huge libraries of the cultural patrimony of our era—our music and literature and correspondence and movies and television. What happens if one, or several, of these new for-profit Alexandrias starts to burn? Forget the instantaneous evaporation of notional wealth. Who is going to run into Amazon’s sweltering server farms to rescue the scrolls? (The threat of a “digital dark age” is underdiscussed, despite the post-apocalyptic tendencies of contemporary art and politics, although it occasionally pops up in science fiction novels, such as Charlie Stross’ 2006 “Glasshouse.”) The overvaluation of tech stocks and the dangers of a sector-wide collapse—even a modest correction—is only a small piece of the over-financialization of the entire global economic system. It is, for instance, only a symptom of our fixation on firms’ equity market capitalization that lets us call Apple the first trillion-dollar company in the first place. JPMorgan Chase & Co., for example, has a market cap of just under $400 billion, but that bank alone has $2.5 trillion in assets under management. Well, you can argue that that is really other people’s money, but so is Apple’s own trillion. And in reality, Apple can do considerably less with all that equity than JPM can do with its piles upon piles of OPM. Globally, there are 30-odd banks with managed assets near or in excess of $1 trillion. The largest bank in China has over $4 trillion. Much of this money swirls about in the vast oceans of global credit markets, upon which equities like stocks are just the white froth on top of a fathomless sea. Money upon money upon money, without chains of title or clear owners—the pure communism of the super-super rich. At some point in the future, if we survive, I expect historians will look back at us roughly as we look back at pre-Reformation Europe, a society so bound up by the universality of its common faith that from its own limited vantage it could not see the coming crackup. That said, I do think that everyone alive today, with the exception of paid professional optimists like the irrepressible Steven Pinker, senses the static charge of the coming storm. Nevertheless, it is hard to appreciate the true immensity of the holy architecture of global capital, and it’s no remedy to observe, correctly, that it is mostly made up. After all, gods do not have to be actual to be real. It’s become a cliché to say that Facebook, a modest $500 million little brother to Apple, is more like a country than a company, populated by over 2 billion users and allegedly casting a deranging shadow of misinformation across the political systems of the world’s largest and most powerful nation-states. But Facebook’s subversion of notional national sovereignties is neither especially novel nor particularly egregious; it’s just very obvious because the company is run by a silly, callow and unsubtle young man. Financial firms, petrochemical companies, pharmaceutical concerns—they have all long transcended national borders, often working in the interests of powerful states, which are themselves generally unconcerned with any borders other than their own. The question is what this will look like as this all begins to unravel, as the pressures of climate change drive the largest human migrations in history and the ability of national and international political institutions to defend the global flow of capital and trade begins to crack and fade. I haven’t the slightest inkling of an answer, but I know that it will not look like a trillion-dollar glass doughnut on a leafy campus beside a magic train.

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Making cybersecurity a top priority in Congress

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Making cybersecurity a top priority in Congress

  Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and employ almost half of the working population. Yet because of their size, they rarely have access to the same information security resources as large firms. Without significant IT departments or dedicated information security personnel, they may be more at risk of cyberattacks than large enterprises. According to data released last month, 53 percent of American businesses of all sizes suffered a cyberattack in the past year, and of those, 72 percent spent more than $5,000 to investigate and recover. A 2016 report found that 42 percent of small businesses suffered a cyberattack of some kind. These incidents not only hurt individual small business owners, employees and customers, they also hurt American competitiveness.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed valuable guidance to aid businesses in securing their networks, including the Cybersecurity Framework for Critical Infrastructure and the Small Business Information Security guide. But many small businesses don’t have the time or resources to figure out how to adapt these guidelines to their needs and implement them. They need more help. So as ranking member of the Research and Technology Subcommittee of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, I worked with Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.) to introduce H.R. 2105, the NIST Small Business Cybersecurity Act.  This bill directs NIST to create clear guidelines, tools, best practices and methodologies specifically for small businesses. It also emphasizes off-the-shelf solutions so that businesses can protect their networked resources better and more cheaply.

In my district in the Southwest suburbs of Chicago, there is a fourth generation family manufacturing business that has suffered multiple sophisticated phishing attacks. Employees have received legitimate-looking emails containing alleged links to purchase orders or meeting agendas that actually connect to harmful sites. Although the employees are trained in basic information security practices, when attackers are persistent enough they eventually catch someone who has let their guard down. The few times the company has fallen victim to these attacks the costs have been significant. The owners have told me that they would welcome guidance on affordable, off-the-shelf resources to strengthen their cyber defenses so the company can focus more on business. This is a story repeated all across the country. 

Government plays an important role in protecting U.S. businesses from cyberattacks. When threat actors can be nation-states or criminals operating with impunity from their governments, it is important for the U.S. government to help domestic businesses defend themselves, just as it would in the case of a physical attack. The guidelines created under this bill, like the NIST Framework, will be voluntary, so we won’t be adding to the regulatory burden on small businesses. Instead, we will be offering them an opportunity to secure their networks so that they can compete on a level playing field.

In early October, the House passed the NIST Small Business Cybersecurity Act. Two weeks earlier the Senate passed a companion bill, S. 770, the MAIN STREET Cybersecurity Act, which was introduced by Sens. Brian SchatzBrian Emanuel SchatzChris Murphy’s profile rises with gun tragedies Senators grill ex-Equifax CEO over stock sales Overnight Cybersecurity: Trump proclaims ‘Cybersecurity Awareness Month’ | Equifax missed chance to patch security flaw | Lawmakers await ex-CEO’s testimony | SEC hack exposed personal data MORE (D-Hawaii) and Jim RischJames (Jim) Elroy RischRubio won’t challenge colleague for Foreign Relations gavel Senate approves Trump’s debt deal with Democrats Overnight Cybersecurity: Mueller impanels grand jury in Russia probe | Researcher who helped stop WannaCry attack detained | Audit finds OPM systems still at risk MORE (R-Idaho). I am hopeful that we can quickly move forward to reconcile the two versions so that it can be sent to the president for his signature.

It seems like every day we learn of more cyberattacks in our nation and around the world.  In the United States, these attacks have the potential to do a lot of damage to individuals, businesses, or the whole country.  That’s why it must be a top priority of Congress to put the necessary resources in place to help everyone prepare for and fend off future attacks.

Lipinski represents Illinois’s 3rd District. He is ranking member of the Research and Technology Subcommittee of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.

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