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    MICROTARGETING UNMASKED: Safeguarding Law Enforcement, the Military, and the Nation in the Era of Personalized Threats
    (Arizona State University, 2023) Lindsay, Greg; Brown, Jason C.; Johnson, Brian David; Owens, Christopher; Hall, Andrew O.; Carrott, Jason
    Threatcasting is a methodology used to help multidisciplinary groups envision future scenarios. It is a particularly powerful methodology for national security due to the ability to focus on a specific research area. This is the case with microtargeting, with emphasis on both preemptive action and post-event recovery. It is also a process that enables systematic planning against threats up to ten years in the future. Utilizing the Threatcasting methodology1, groups explore possible future threats, how to mitigate them, and build the future they desire.
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    The Future of Cyber Enabled Financial Crime: New Crimes, New Criminals, and Economic Warfare
    (Arizona State University, 2022) Johnson, Brian David; Brown, Jason C.; Massad, Josh; Owens, Christopher
    What will the future of cyber-enabled financial crime, perpetrated by either criminals or nation states, look like 10 years from now? In the coming decade, those who engage in cyber-enabled financial crimes (CEFC) will take advantage of a collection of technologies and adjacent practices -- creating new classes of crimes, conditions, and adversary vectors. There are numerous technologies at the forefront of societal evolution, including cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, 5G, physical and digital autonomous systems, the Internet of Things (IoT), Smart Cities, biometric identity, space-based systems, and quantum computing. The combination of changes in these technologies and in society are likely to also include an over-reliance on digital devices, digital payments, monopolized smart systems, and broader technology dependencies. In addition, the nature of financial crimes is expected to change in that they will initially target vulnerable communities, consumers, companies, and cyber computer systems. Furthermore, financial crimes will increasingly be used to enable more advanced and egregious economic warfare opportunities for adversarial nations and nation-state proxies.