Jeffrey Carr

For other people named Jeff Carr, see Jeff Carr (disambiguation).

Jeffrey Carr is a cybersecurity author, researcher, entrepreneur and consultant, who focuses on cyber warfare.[1]

Career

In 2008, Carr founded Project Grey Goose, a crowd-sourced open-source intelligence effort to attribute major cyber attacks.[2][3][4] The Project soliticited the expertise of vetted volunteers, while seeking to filter out non-experts and cyber criminals. The Project's first area of research was the campaign of cyberattacks during the Russo-Georgian War.[1]

In 2011, Carr created the Suits and Spooks conference series, which offered a private forum for intelligence veterans to meet with technologists, academics, hackers, and business executives. The forum was acquired by Wired Business Media in 2014.[5]

Carr was the founder of now-defunct cybersecurity firms Taia Global Ltd (also founder) and GreyLogic. He later wrote about the lessons he gained from their failures.[6][1][7]

Carr has lectured on cybersecurity issues at the Defense Intelligence Agency, U.S. Army War College, Air Force Institute of Technology, NATO’s CCDCOE Conference on Cyber Conflict, and DEF CON.[8]

Writing and research

He is the author of Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld (O'Reilly Media 2009, 2011), which analyzed cyber conflicts from 2002 until 2009.[9][10][11] In Cyber Warfare, Carr argued that international cyber attacks are predominantly deployed by non-state actors, who are sometimes encouraged and tolerated by state entities.[1] Alternately, as Carr later told The Christian Science Monitor, it is private IT infrastructure, rather than government policy, that lies at the heart of US vulnerability to international cyber attacks.[12]

Jeffrey Carr has blogged about cyber security and warfare at Intelfusion.net[1][4] (until September 1, 2010) and Forbes' The Firewall.[13][14][15][16] Carr said he had quit The Firewall in protest, after his post on Yuri Milner's relationship to the Russian FSB was taken down by Forbes at the request of Milner's lawyer.[17]

In March 2017, Carr stated there was growing doubt in the computer security industry regarding the narrative of Russian state sponsorship of hacks associated with the 2016 US elections. Carr stated that, because the FBI relied on forensic investigations by global cybersecurity consultancy CrowdStrike, "everyone else is relying on information they provided."[18] Several notable competitors of CrowdStrike, including Symantec and FireEye examined the underlying data and endorsed CrowdStrike's conclusions.[19]

Professional publications

  • “The Classification of Valuable Data in an Assumption of Breach Paradigm”, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, March 2014
  • “The Misunderstood Acronym: Why Cyber Weapons aren’t WMD”, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Sept 1, 2013, Vol, 69, No. 5, p. 3237
  • “Intelligence Preparation of the Information and Communications Environment”, Air & Space Power Journal, 2012, Vol 24, No. 3

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Springer, Paul J. (2015-02-24). Cyber Warfare: A Reference Handbook: A Reference Handbook. ABC-CLIO. pp. 150–151. ISBN 9781610694445.
  2. ^ Carr, Jeff. "Announcing Project Grey Goose - Operation Poachers". Jeff Carr Blog. Blogspot.com. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  3. ^ Sterling, Bruce (2009-08-03). "The Project Grey Goose cyberwar report". Wired. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  4. ^ a b Flook, Kara (May 13, 2009). "Russia and the Cyber Threat". Critical Threats. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  5. ^ "SecurityWeek Acquires Suits and Spooks Security Events | SecurityWeek.Com". www.securityweek.com. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  6. ^ "Crushing Force as a Change Agent". 2016-09-22.
  7. ^ Greenberg, Andy (2010-03-03). "The Real Meaning Of Cyberwarfare". Forbes. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  8. ^ "Jeffrey Carr". O'Reilly Media. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  9. ^ Library of Congress. "Inside cyber warfare". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on 12 December 2012. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
  10. ^ Marks, Larry (4 July 2013). "Inside Cyber Warfare, Mapping the Cyber Underworld, by Carr, Jeffrey". Information Security Journal: A Global Perspective. 22 (4): 201–202. doi:10.1080/19393555.2013.828804. ISSN 1939-3555. S2CID 44346810.
  11. ^ Carr, Jeffrey (1 January 2009). Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld. O'Reilly Media, Inc. ISBN 9780596802158. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  12. ^ Armerding, Taylor. "Will a cyber crisis add to chaos of Trump's first 100 days?". CSO Online. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  13. ^ "Jeffrey Carr - Digital Dao". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-04-12.
  14. ^ Shackelford, Scott J. (2014-07-10). Managing Cyber Attacks in International Law, Business, and Relations: In Search of Cyber Peace. Cambridge University Press. pp. xxiv. ISBN 9781107354777.
  15. ^ Reveron, Derek S. (2012-09-11). Cyberspace and National Security: Threats, Opportunities, and Power in a Virtual World. Georgetown University Press. pp. 186, 187. ISBN 978-1589019188.
  16. ^ Fallows, James. "If You Were Going to Read Only One Thing About Cyber-Security..." The Atlantic. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  17. ^ "Interview With Cybersecurity Expert And Suits & Spooks Founder Jeffrey Carr". Publicyte | Microsoft Technet. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
  18. ^ "Were the hackers who broke into the DNC's email really Russian". Miami Herald. March 24, 2017.
  19. ^ Kevin Poulsen, "How the U.S. Hobbled Its Hacking Case Against Russia and Enabled Truthers", The Daily Beast, January 6, 2017, [1]