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Preparing you to protect yourself, your family, or your business from online threats in this digital age.

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A new welcome and website preview video has been added to our Essentials Membership landing page. If you are curious to see what Members have access to...watch and learn: youtu.be/4DN_9dzDkZs
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Practive Security@PractiveSec·
The most common sentiments I hear from parents when we talk about online safety and security for their children include: A personal story of trauma followed by, "if someone had only warned me before" or "I wish I knew before." "You're right, this is so important, but it's overwhelming. It's too big of a problem to solve and I don't know where to start." "I had never thought of that." "I don't have time to add anything else, but this is really important. Can you just tell me what to do?" "Sounds great, but what do I do if my kids need their devices for school?" or "we use online resources for school and I can't supervise my kids at the same time." "That's why we don't let our kids use technology in our home. We're just staying away from it all for now, but I know I need to prepare them eventually." We are trying to address all of this in the various content we offer for parents who leverage our Essentials Membership. In fact, we have a page dedicated to Parents and you search topics of interest based on your life context, your priorities and concerns, and you can take this one step at a time. It's not too late. For $15 you can sign up for our Essentials Membership for 1 full month of unlimited access to our content, including our page dedicated to helping parents. A brief workshop introducing parents to online issues is available in audio format for just $5. practivesecurity.com/parents
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Practive Security@PractiveSec·
Direct links to access the CHEA recording and our presentation material are here: The audio recording of our digital health and cyber security seminar for parents is now available to purchase from CHEA here: cheaofca.org/product_descri… You can download our workshop presentation slides using the link below. This presentation relied heavily on the displayed materials, so it would be best to view the presentation material while listening along. practivesecurity.com/s/Final-DH-and…
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Practive Security@PractiveSec·
Reminder - our digital health and cyber security workshop for parents that we presented at CHEA 2026 is available to access in audio format for $5 from CHEA (link below). In this presentation, we introduce parents to the various threats online and the harm that comes from online participation in our modern digital spaces. We follow that with a quick review of the common solutions offered to parents to address these and why they are insufficient. Then we move into a time of helping parents understand that participation online itself is the root of the ill effects we see in our kids, encouraging parents to take up the role of shepherds and to build intentional discipleship, training, and mentorship in their family regarding the use of technology. This is a very distilled version of our full seminar for digital health and cyber security that is on sale for the month of July at 50% off!! All the information and links you need to access the CHEA workshop and our full seminar can be found here: practivesecurity.substack.com/p/reflections-…
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Practive Security@PractiveSec·
I haven't forgotten...the threat modeling exercise is still in progress. Stay tuned. Also working on a guide for secure communications for foreign missionaries. Also working on a new children's story that draws from C.S. Lewis' 'Til We Have Faces, to show how Agentic AI is a deeper form of identify theft. Also working on an adaptation of our book Practive Security 101 to make a guide for "Online Safety and Security for the Christian Home." For that work, I'll be merging some of what is in our 101 content along with what is on our Parents page + pulling from some of the content we present in our Digital Health and Security for Parents seminar. And if the China election interference story seems to stay on the surface, I may add some related to that on our threat intelligence page. Lots going on, so stay tuned...and sign up for early access to everything.
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There is a prevailing lie in the cyber security industry that claims the adversary has the advantage and always will. I just read it repeated in an article from a self-described "industry expert." That's nonsense. It's an excuse often used to be lazy or a pass given to dismiss accountability. We, the defenders, always have the advantage. We choose what we expose, when, how, why etc. We create the battlefield that the adversary has to operate in. They attack what we present. They can only do what we allow. We always have the advantage, and defense is possible.
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This is a good example of the weaponization of AI by common cyber criminals. Note that AI does not provide the attacker with net-new capabilities nor an unfair advantage over their victim. They are still using known TTPs and operating within the boundaries presented in the victim's context. They are simply using the natural language processor and reference/training architecture of agentic AI to facilitate what the attacker already knows how to do. In other words, AI is a different platform to do the same thing. In my article from earlier this year challenging the industry narrative that AI is giving adversaries an unfair advantage (also a chapter in Practive Security 101), I used open source threat intelligence reporting from the two top cyber security research firms to point out that even though we have been told for several years now that AI will grant attackers insane new powers...it hasn't. Still true. bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/…
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This article is making the case that Agentic AI is undermining cybersecurity because we are losing control of everything that keeps us safe. That is insane. Far worse than the mess we created with cloud. Here's the deal: we don't have to do this. CEOs all over the business spectrum are reporting that all this AI integration and offloading is providing them 0 measurable benefit. Now we know it's creating an insane level of unnecessary complexity for the enterprise, and straining an already strained security industry. We don't have to do this. We are being stupid. Don't be stupid. #InfoSec #CyberSecurity #CISO bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/…
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In a world of monetized attention, anonymous accounts, and GenAI how can what is real and true? Not by asking Grok, but rather by building yourself up to be wise and discerning, being selective about your influences, and learning how to spot the fakes: practivesecurity.substack.com/p/finding-the-…
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Matt Johnston
Matt Johnston@MattInformed·
I wrote about this in Countering the AI Revolution. Part of Larry Ellison’s dream of the AI world, is cameras everywhere watching everything we do all the time so that “citizens will be on their best behavior.” Search for that and you’ll find him excitedly describing his police state of cameras constantly watching us in a live interview he gave. It’s already taking shape. I give examples in the book. Kids are being jailed because AI thinks they were planning a crime. In San Diego County, local police are inviting citizens to grant them access to personal home security cameras so the police can perform real-time monitoring and investigations. We really need to wake up and pay attention. Before you dismiss Larry Ellison’s dreams as unimportant, he was invited to the Trump White House the first week back in office to announce Trump’s first AI initiative: Stargate. westbowpress.com/en/bookstore/b…
S2 Underground@s2_underground

North Carolina just authorized the emplacement of Flock cameras on every single state road. You ask, What's the penalty for police officers who abuse this intelligence collection sensor suite, and use the surveillance tools illegally? It's a misdemeanor. Same class as petty larceny.

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Matt Johnston
Matt Johnston@MattInformed·
Listen to her words: the AI race is about global dominance. It is the new vehicle for globalism. Calling it a national security issue makes winning this race an existential necessity. But what does that mean? What are we afraid of? The implication is that if we lose, we become servants to the winner, China, and if we win, then the world comes under our dominion. And what will that new world look like? According to those facilitating this race, it will be some form of techno-socialism. Something like a perpetual Burning Man festival. Elon Musk even uses the terms of socialism: universal income, universal prosperity. Larry Ellison speaks of a total police state: “everyone will be on their best behavior because we will be watching everything.” Elon and Dario tell us our economy will be completely changed because none of us will have jobs and everyone will be capable of doing anything via the machines. They even promise to do away with our religions as Elon has spoken of Grok being the final source of truth that will answer all the philosophical and religious questions of mankind. The AI Revolution is in every way the abandonment of our history, traditions, and faith as humans. Saying that opposition is a phenomenon of social media foreign influence operations is ridiculous. I’m sure that is happening, but let’s not pretend that there is no objection to the anti-human force that is behind this. @Heritage should be leading the opposition along with the church. westbowpress.com/en/bookstore/b…
Heritage Foundation@Heritage

AI isn’t just a tech race—it’s a national security race. This week on Heritage Explains, Texas Land Commissioner @DrBuckinghamTX discusses why AI infrastructure, energy, water, and public lands could play a critical role in America’s future. 🎧 Listen now wherever you listen to podcasts, or by clicking here: heritage.org/heritage-expla…

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Practive Security@PractiveSec·
Did you know that cyber crime (not including the impact of industrial espionage and economic subversion by nation states) is roughly 1/3 the size of the US economy in annual trade? If the cyber crime world was contained within a nation, it would be the 3rd largest economy in the world. That is the trade of stolen property and the industry of tools and resources that support it. And again, that doesn't include the fact that China is stealing entire industries from us as well. One of the reasons I believe cyber security matters to everyone, is because it directly impacts all of us, though we are excellent at ignoring it and brushing it under the rug. But online crime and espionage is having a massive impact of our nation and the world. Someone recently told me that their debit card number was stolen and the thief used it to drain thousands of dollars from their checking account. This person brushed it off saying "it happens, and my bank took care of it." Yes, but the reason your bank can take care of it is because they write it off as a loss...but that cost impacts our economy at multiple levels. Banks change more for services, they lower interest rates on savings accounts, they expand the length and terms of interest-bearing accounts, they invest more aggressively...in other words, the cost to participate in our economy goes up and that affects all of us. There is a lot each of us can do in our life to counter this. This is the premise I offer in my book Practive Security 101, but also throughout our articles and services available from PractiveSecurity.com practivesecurity.substack.com/p/introducing-…
Matt Johnston@MattInformed

Our issues with China are much deeper than election interference. I’ve spent most of my 26+ year career in cyber security fighting Chinese espionage, subversion, extortion, and overall undermining of our nation—much of that in national defense contexts. As the lead of multiple threat intelligence programs at cyber security companies, China and Russia were among my specialities. If you are curious about this, look into “made in China 2025” and China’s 5 year plan. They are very public about their intention to subdue the US under their global control, and they are insanely aggressive about it. We have lost industries to them, companies, patents, national secrets, medical research, medical records of citizens, technical processes, business processes…economic opportunity, prosperity, and the value of our dollar is weakened directly by this. Their methods of espionage and subversion are extremely aggressive as well: planting people, extorting their own citizens, implanting malware on our devices, redirecting Internet traffic to their systems for information collection… China is effectively at war with us. They have been for a long time. But we have been able to absorb the losses they bring us, though at tremendous cost. All of this is well known but the leaders of our nation and of our industry have not wanted to address this because we are also dependent on China in many ways. We need to break free. It will be painful, but we need to.

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Practive Security@PractiveSec·
Just paid bills online from my laptop. But before I did, I checked my AV software to make sure it was up to date and running, opened a new browser window and checked to make sure it was up to date, checked my operating system for updates, and turned VPN on. Simple habits to protect your property.
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At the CHEA convention this year and also in everyday conversations with family and friends, people often ask for our opinion about the safety and security of this or that tool or service, along with our general recommendations for online participation and use of technology in a safe and secure manner. This book is our attempt to cover all of that. It is our guide to essential knowledge, strategies, and practices about online threats so you can protect all that you are: heart, mind, body, soul, and property. amazon.com/dp/B0H4LK1Y93
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Practive Security@PractiveSec·
Do we offer custom seminars delivered online or in person at your event? Yes! Check out our website for some of the online options currently available, and contact us if you would like something custom for your community, church, or business. If you would like an example of what we can deliver live and in person, check out our latest newsletter linked below. An audio recording of the workshop we delivered at CHEA is available to purchased for $5, and the presentation material is available to download for free. Let us know how we can serve you. practivesecurity.substack.com/p/reflections-…
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Practive Security@PractiveSec·
Reminder: we have published books! Nearly all that we have written to help our customers understand the topics of online safety and security as well as the AI Revolution are available offline in paperback an ereader through two very different volumes: Practive Security 101 Countering the AI Revolution Learn more about them and find links to order from our website at practivesecurity.com/books
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An article shared today from Kale Zelden (link below) reminds us that the age of online personalities, digital personas, monetized attention, money for clicks etc. has created a world of illusions. AI has made it worse, but this patterns is very real, and very dangerous. And so it can be difficult to discern what or who is real and what is true especially on platforms designed to feed you what is popular and among a context of self radicalization where personalities feed us what we want. And so we wrote these articles to help you inoculate yourself from this dilemma. These are also a chapter in our book Practive Security 101. Finding the True and Real practivesecurity.substack.com/p/finding-the-… Guarding Hearts and Minds from Influence practivesecurity.substack.com/p/guarding-hea…
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