ciaran martin – Writings of Pukhraj Singh

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Deconstructing Ciaran Martin’s speech in 18 tweets

Ciaran Martin was the founder of the UK’s National Cyber Security Center and the former head of cyber operations at GCHQ. He gave a thought-provoking speech busting many myths around cyber power and cyber operations (text and video ).

I try to deconstruct it in 18 tweets. Click on the tweet to follow the thread:

1. Deconstructing @ciaranmartinoxf‘s speech from a cyber policy perspective in 18 tweets. Here, he alludes to the technical ambiguity which plagues policy work, i.e. reliance on effects-based frameworks. Operators only control effects to a certain degree for complex intrusions pic.twitter.com/HHUyIo07uI

— Pukhraj Singh (@RungRage) November 12, 2020

Pukhraj Singh is a cyber threat intelligence analyst with 14 years of experience. He has worked with the Indian government and security response teams of global companies.

Pukhraj's brief bio can be accessed here.

Cyber geo-strategy does not exist as a formal discipline in India. This blog takes a shot at it.

It also curates Pukhraj's publications on cybersecurity spanning a decade.

His writings have been published by the US Military Academy, Indian Army, The Indian Express, Hindustan Times, The Tribune, Infosecurity Mag, SC Magazine, Outlook, Deccan Herald, The Print, Huffington Post, BW BusinessWorld, The Quint, Jindal Journal of International Affairs and Seminar.

Pukhraj has guest lectured senior commanders at the College of Air Warfare, Indian National Defense University and the Headquarters of the Integrated Defence Staff. He has also spoken at international security conferences.

Pukhraj was also recognised as a social activist while running Abroo, a now defunct lobbying initiative for the welfare of Dalits of Punjab.