Time is Running Out – Tying it All Together – What Will You Do in the Near Term?
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BSides Las Vegas 2025 · Day 1
This closing session for the I Am the Cavalry track at BSides Las Vegas is a synthesis talk and forward-looking briefing from **Josh Corman**, who describes himself as the founder of **I Am the Cavalry** and as driving a one-year pilot called **Undisruptible 27** at the **Institute for Security and Technology**, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The pilot was initially funded (on the speaker’s account) by **Craig Newmark** of Craigslist. The talk’s stated aim is twofold: outline roughly the next two years of funded work now that additional support has been secured, and weave together themes from speakers across roughly two and a half days of the track. The framing is explicitly urgent: geopolitical timelines (references in the talk to **2027** and **Xi Jinping** / **PLA** readiness narratives), **critical infrastructure** risk (hospitals, water, power, food supply chains), and the need for **empathy-driven** public messaging that avoids both **FUD** and denial. The session includes playback and discussion of two draft advocacy videos focused on **ransomware’s impact on hospitals** and **water-system dependence**, audience reactions, and a detailed “theory of change” pivot from an information-gap model to one that also addresses **motivation** and **enablement**.
AI review
This is a mission-control keynote-style closer: heavy on narrative, coalition-building, and program mechanics, light on falsifiable technical claims. It is valuable if you are trying to understand how critical-infrastructure advocacy gets funded, messaged, and operationalized—but it is not a research talk.