Are Your Business Counter-Parties PEPs? Rethinking Politically Exposed Persons Designations Political Warfare is not just a national security concern; it’s also an enterprise risk issue for the private sector. Modern malign influence is exercised on a backbone of clandestine commercial infrastructure. While a great deal of national focus has been placed on effective tools for identifying...Read More

Save the date!  On 14 May the Washington, DC; Maryland; and Virginia (DMV) IPA Community of Interest (COI) will hold an introduction and planning meeting for all DMV IPA members. The meeting will be held from 6pm to 9pm at the Army and Navy Club, 901 17th St NW, Washington, DC 20006.  Complimentary food and...Read More

IPA is excited to assist the Information Power Institute of Australia for Global Information Conference Australia 2024 – Phoenix Challenge this coming June. The conference’s theme is Innovating for deterrence and readiness in the Indo-Pacific. It will include keynote and panel sessions as well as optional working groups to develop practical solutions for current information challenges in...Read More

IPA’s new President Brian Murphy shares his thoughts on the future of the organization. Dear Information Professionals, I am honored to have been selected as the IPA president. I would like to thank the outgoing president, Kevin Gates, for his dedicated five-and-a-half years of leadership. Fortunately, Kevin will not be going far and will remain...Read More

The Information Professionals Association, the leading professional organization focused on the study, advancement, and application of information-related activities and technologies to achieve cognitive security, announced today that Brian Murphy has been named President. Kevin Gates, who has served as IPA’s President for the last five-and-a-half years, will join the organization’s Board of Advisors. Murphy’s appointment...Read More

by John Bicknell and Martin Jetton   Arbitrage is a process for finding and capitalizing on system disparities or imbalances. Cognitive arbitrage identifies and capitalizes on opportunistic moments within systems based upon changes in human cognitive states. Complexity, the variety of system activities, and human cognition are fundamentally related. This article explains this relationship, provides...Read More