Tradecraft - Ravenwood

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Tradecraft

Tempered Automation: Forging Tradecraft Through Bespoke Tooling

Explore the trade-offs of stealth, automation, and discrete tooling in intelligence collection.

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Tradecraft

Webinar August 2026 - Managed Attribution

Managed Attribution for high-risk research in contested online spaces.

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Tradecraft

In Defense of the Dark Arts: Operationalizing Managed Attribution

The online realm is composed of countless pocket dimensions brimming with hidden risk.

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Tradecraft

Dirty Networks, Clean Data: Managed Attribution in Triage Environments

Licensed software can be a liability and an asset. Poorly configured tools become the indicator used to identify and manipulate investigations.

Tradecraft

Structured Analytic Techniques: Starbursting

Questions are meant to explore ideas and problems more thoroughly before moving to solutions or assessments.

Analysis

Intelligence Cycle Webinar - June 2026

The Intelligence Cycle is integral to Ravenwood's work and provides a structured way to transform data and information into knowledge that supports decisionmaking.

Tradecraft

Don't Burn the Cake: A Managed Attribution Strategy

Think of managing attribution like baking a cake rather than peeling an onion.

Society

The Human Vulnerability

Social engineering impacts everyone from giant mega-corporations to lonely grandmothers. These types of attacks are effective because humans can be compelled or motivated to act in certain ways, positive or negative.

Tradecraft

The Intelligence Cycle: A Strong Foundation

The framework used to guide intelligence analysis is called the Intelligence Cycle. At Ravenwood Intelligence Cooperative, we apply a six-step intelligence cycle to all our work.

Tech

Instagram Discontinuing Encrypted Chats

On May 8, 2026, Instagram’s end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) chat feature will be discontinued. For years, child safety advocates and law enforcement agencies worldwide have argued against Meta’s use of E2EE for direct messaging.

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Tradecraft

What is Managed Attribution?

Managed attribution is the holistic and deliberate act of curating digital signatures and forensic artifacts to project a desired image online.

Society

By the Numbers: The Quiet Collapse of Justice

A former FBI analyst picks apart OPM’s data to tell a deeper story of who has left the department and why.