Friday, October 4, 2019

Dissinformation as a Service (DaaS)

While disinformation campaigns are often associated with governments, new research indicates there is a robust, easy-to-navigate market for anyone looking to buy their own propaganda arms.

It is “alarmingly simple and inexpensive” to launch a sophisticated disinformation campaign, analysts from threat-intelligence company Recorded Future concluded after studying the issue. “Disinformation services are highly customizable in scope, costing anywhere from several hundreds of dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars, or more depending on the client’s needs.”...

“If the ease of this experience is any indication, we predict that disinformation-as-a-service will soon spread from a nation-state tool to one increasingly used by individuals and organizations,” the Recorded Future analysts said. more

As Technical Information Security Consultants, this caught our attention. 

The best disinformation always adds in some correct information. The sum is verisimilitude, the ring of truth. 

So, where will the best correct information come from? Inside, of course.

Another very good reason to conduct regularly scheduled Technical Information Security surveys at your organization.