The Art of Pivoting - Techniques for Intelligence Analysts to Discover New Relationships in a Complex World

This open source book explores how intelligence and cyber-security analysts can uncover hidden links between threat actor infrastructure and ongoing investigations by pivoting on both classic and unconventional indicators — many of which are often overlooked. The material is grounded in empirical, field-tested strategies used in cyber-security, digital forensics, cyber threat intelligence, and intelligence analysis more broadly.

I released the first version of this book following the @firstdotorg CTI Conference 2025 in Berlin, where the initial idea for the project emerged.

🔗 PDF https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adulau/the-art-of-pivoting/refs/heads/main/output/the-art-of-pivoting.pdf

🔗 Source of the book in Markdown https://github.com/adulau/the-art-of-pivoting (if you want to contribute ;-)

#cti #threatintelligence #pivoting #pivot #intelligence #intelligencecommunity #cybersecurity #book #openbook #investigation #opensource

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A life in the shadows, told in the open. Stella Rimington’s Open Secret shows that even secret agents crave transparency and truth.
#OpenSecret #SpyMemoir #Espionage #IntelligenceCommunity #BooksWorthReading
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/open-secret/
Open Secret: A Memoir from MI5’s First Woman Leader

Open Secret explores Stella Rimington’s MI5 career and how she brought transparency to British intelligence.

THIS GRANDPA BLOGS
Not all traitors act alone. Some are played by forces far greater than they know. A must-read for any Cold War enthusiast.
#SpyHistory #CambridgeSpies #IntelligenceCommunity #NonfictionReads
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/deceiving-the-deceivers/
Deceiving the Deceivers: Inside the Cambridge Spy Ring

Deceiving the Deceivers reveals Cold War spy secrets and questions the true roles of Philby, Maclean, and Burgess.

THIS GRANDPA BLOGS
"On August 19th her career came to an abrupt end, when Tulsi Gabbard, America’s director of national intelligence, revoked her security clearance, along with those of 36 other serving and former officials accused of “betray[ing] their oath to the Constitution”. ... The CIA officer was thought to be close to retirement age. “Who will want to work on some controversial issue or go out on a limb analytically?” asks an insider. “It is one thing to speak truth to power in the abstract, and another when your career and family livelihood is very much on the line.” #intelligenceCommunity #natsec
Original https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/08/21/donald-trump-has-purged-one-of-the-cias-most-senior-russia-analysts
No paywall https://archive.is/hUX0a
Donald Trump has purged one of the CIA’s most senior Russia analysts

The move will have a chilling effect inside American spy agencies

The Economist

Yeah, #Trump only cares about his vanity & revenge for basically everybody who reminds him of the fact that (bad) actions have consequences. (#WichHunt)

Wheras the #IntelligenceCommunity of (former) allies of the #USA indeed cares much more about whether or not their primary interlocutor [#TulsiGabbard] is (maby) a hostile spy of a country they're at a (cold) war with [#Russia] & whether its safe to share ANY information with their great brother.

https://time.com/7176696/gabbard-russia-connection-trump-intelligence/

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‘We Are Reeling’: Trump’s Pick of Tulsi Gabbard Alarms Intelligence Community

Some intelligence officials are considering whether to resign if Tulsi Gabbard is their new boss. 'We are reeling,' says one official.

Time
@adammockler.com with @meidastouch.com exposes the CHAOS inside Trump’s administration as #TulsiGabbard flip-flops, #PeteHegseth deletes messages, and Trump rejects his own #IntelligenceCommunity AGAIN to side with #Israel and delay action again. He wants a war, he NEEDS it youtu.be/A4Qz5QetiJA?...

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Trump and his #IntelligenceCommunity has lost track of the equivalent of #10NuclearBombs worth 409kg of #Iranian enriched #uranium, as Trump’s failure to plan ahead and allow us to be backed into a #MiddleEast war not on our timetable, reaches DEVASTATING proportions. youtu.be/rilXAx3lYRA?...

Trump Makes INTEL MISTAKE of N...
Trump Makes INTEL MISTAKE of NUCLEAR PROPORTIONS

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“Tulsi Gabbard, the US director of national intelligence, has fired the two highest-ranking officials at the National Intelligence Council (NIC) just weeks after the council released an assessment that contradicted [the 47th POTUS’s] justification for using the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members without due process. … The two were fired because of their opposition to the [POTUS], Gabbard’s office said in an email on Wednesday, without offering examples.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/14/tuli-gabbard-trump-national-intelligence-firings

#IntelligenceCommunity #nationalSecurity #USA #WhiteHouse

Gabbard fires officials who released memo contradicting Trump’s Venezuela gang claims

Two highest-ranking employees fired due to opposition to Trump, says Tulsi Gabbard’s office, without giving examples

The Guardian

I've read that the Intelligence Community has a newspaper 📰️ and it's so secret that even the ads are classified.

#pun #uspol #SignalGate #IntelligenceCommunity #CIA #NSA #FBI #Classified #ClassifiedAds