I’m Kayla. I took the JS-US009 OPSEC Awareness course on JKO last quarter. I also ran through the CDSE OPSEC Awareness module for a refresher. One long lunch break. One cold burrito. Me and a very slow laptop. I’ll be real: I went looking for “answers” first. I was tired. I had drills that weekend. …
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Here’s my quick plan: Set the scene (why I used OPSEC) Walk through the five steps with simple, real examples Share what worked and what didn’t Close with who it helps and my bottom line Why I even needed this I run ops for a small youth program. Sports, snacks, forms, and a lot of …
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Quick take: I used Purple Dragon OPSEC with my small team for seven days. It cut silly mistakes, caught a few risky links, and nagged me (nicely) about bad habits. It’s not perfect. But it felt like a seat belt for our online life. (There’s also a thorough external case study that tracks another week-long …
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I’m Kayla, and I went through Navy OPSEC training during workups and again before deployment. More than once, actually. It wasn’t just slides. It got personal. It followed me home, to my phone, and even to my coffee runs. You know what? That’s kind of the point. If you want to see how the Navy …
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You know what? I didn’t think I’d enjoy this. But catching little clues that give away too much is oddly fun. Also a bit scary. I spent the last month testing how well I could spot OPSEC indicators with a small tool stack. I used SpiderFoot HX for scans, Hunchly for capture, and ExifTool to …
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Quick note before we get rolling: I took the CDSE “OPSEC Awareness” course last fall. I also carried the little NCSC OPSEC Pocket Guide in my tote for a month. I used both at work and at home. Yes, my kitchen table saw a lot of sticky notes. Now, the main thing folks ask me …
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