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Dr. Dave Venable @davevenable

Focused on building resilience in democracies | Former U.S. intelligence officer | Chair, @ISRSngo | Board director & CISO | @TheCipherBrief @aiinonprofit

Joined May 2011
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Dr. Dave Venable@davevenable
17 Sep 2020
Very honored to be included in @TribeOfHackers Blue Team. Thanks so much to @marcusjcarey and @jen_jin, I can’t wait to sit down and read the whole book! I’ve loved and learned a lot from every edition of the #TribeOfHackers series!
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The National Security Institute
@MasonNatSec
Jun 4
TODAY! NSI Chief Operating Officer Tara McFeely will be joining @TheBushCenter and @ISRSngo for a webinar to discuss the use of Synthetic Asymmetry in CRINK (China, Russia, Iran, North Korea) states. Tara will be joined by NSI Visiting Fellow Igor Khrestin, @BAMcCown, and @davevenable. To learn more and register for this upcoming event, click here: isrs.ngo/crinkpanel
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The National Security Institute
@MasonNatSec
Jun 3
Tomorrow, June 4, NSI Chief Operating Officer Tara McFeely will be joining @TheBushCenter and @ISRSngo for a webinar to discuss the use of Synthetic Asymmetry in CRINK (China, Russia, Iran, North Korea) states. Tara will be joined by NSI Visiting Fellow Igor Khrestin, @BAMcCown, and @davevenable. To learn more and register for this upcoming event, click here: isrs.ngo/crinkpanel
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The National Security Institute
@MasonNatSec
Jun 1
This Thursday, June 4, NSI Chief Operating Officer Tara Caroselli McFeely will be joining @TheBushCenter and @ISRSngo for a webinar to discuss the use of Synthetic Asymmetry in CRINK (China, Russia, Iran, North Korea) states. Tara will be joined by NSI Visiting Fellow Igor Khrestin, @BAMcCown, and @davevenable. To learn more and register for this upcoming event, click here: isrs.ngo/crinkpanel
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Wondering whether the character name “Lorenzo Pelligrini” in @olensteinhauer’s “An American Spy” is a reference to Foucault’s Pendulum…
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NSA Cyber
@NSACyber
May 1
Better understand agentic AI systems and mitigate the cybersecurity risks using a new guide we authored with @ASDGovAu and others. View the joint report. #Cybersecurity #AgenticAI media.defense.gov/2026/Apr/3…

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World War III started a decade ago. We’ve just been calling it ‘technical debt.’
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Christopher Sweat
@SweatEm
Mar 23
Dr. Dave Venable’s latest briefing captures a shift in modern conflict and most analyst will miss what actually changed. Read: isrs.ngo/fpb/burning-the-exi… It's not just an energy crisis, but a shift in how complex systems are targetted.

Burning the Exit Ramps: Iran's Counter-Resilience War

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Ok, someone just sent this to me, and I absolutely love that @Grokipedia thinks that @DavidVenableQVC and I are the same person: cryptography patents, cookbooks, broadcast career, journalism degree, NATO keynotes, and Fortune 100 cyber advisory: grokipedia.com/page/david_ve…

David Venable — Grokipedia

David Venable is an American cybersecurity expert, former intelligence officer with the United States National Security Agency (NSA), and entrepreneur. He is recognized for developing encrypted data r

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It keeps getting better
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Greenland’s strategic relevance isn’t about sovereignty. It’s about long-term access in a contested Arctic. In ISRS’s latest Flashpoint Briefing, @BAMcCown and @davevenable examine why access assurance and alliance legitimacy now define Arctic risk. isrs.ngo/fpb/greenland-strat…
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Brigham McCown
@BAMcCown
Jan 9
#Greenland , Strategic Access, and the Return of #Arctic Risk isrs.ngo/fpb/greenland-strat…

Greenland, Strategic Access, and the Return of Arctic Risk

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When the AI adds “genuinely” to a response… 🤔
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Well, if it’s not us-east1, it’s Cloudflare… And it’s always DNS
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Good read from @WarOnTheRocks : warontherocks.com/2025/11/a-…

A Bletchley Park for the Quantum Age

Bletchley Park was more than a place — it was a method. During World War II, the United Kingdom combined science, engineering, operations, and alliance

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I was very honored to speak on the evolution of the CISO role at the Cyber Future Summit today, at the George W Bush Presidential Center.
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“More than 50% of social media accounts are AI bots, and they are influencing how we think” - Kate Kuehn at Cyber Future Summit
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The Cipher Brief
@thecipherbrief
9 Oct 2025
Forget Guerrillas and IEDs - The Next Asymmetric War Will Be Engineered thecipherbrief.com/asymmetri…

Forget Guerrillas and IEDs - The Next Asymmetric War Will Be Engineered

OPINION — For most of modern history, asymmetric conflict conjured a familiar image: guerrillas in the hills, insurgents planting roadside bombs, or terrorists striking with crude weapons. The weak...

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My latest:
ISRS | Institute for Strategic Risk and Security@ISRSngo
9 Oct 2025
The next asymmetric war isn’t guerrillas and IEDs - it’s engineered through AI, biotech, and code. @davevenable on synthetic asymmetry in @thecipherbrief: thecipherbrief.com/asymmetri…
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ISRS | Institute for Strategic Risk and Security@ISRSngo
30 Sep 2025
Europe is moving ahead with a “Drone Wall.” Not concrete, but a layered defense of sensors, jammers, and interceptors across NATO’s eastern flank. Its goal: make hostile drones costly, risky, and ineffective.
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