Brandon Karpf
Multi-order risk. Multinational resilience.
I help executives read risk before it lands.
The throughline is the operator vantage point. Every read is grounded in operations I’ve run, businesses I’ve built, and capital I’ve allocated.
SECURITY
Where the threat lives
I run international security and risk for a Global Fortune 100 and lecture on cybersecurity and national security at Penn State, Georgetown, and the U.S. Naval Academy. Before that, I directed offensive operations at NSA and U.S. Cyber Command. Boards and governments hire me when the question is hard and the answer has to survive contact with reality.
How I workCAPITAL
Where capital meets conflict
As Venture Partner at Fulcrum Venture Group, I evaluate dual-use defense technology with a builder’s scar tissue. AI, cyber, and the unglamorous infrastructure that has to hold up when capital meets conflict.
Capital thesisVOICE
A discipline of seeing
A Discipline of Seeing is the weekly column where I think out loud about national security, technology, and the strategy questions executives have to answer. Plus podcast appearances, conference keynotes, and the occasional book.
Read the writing
1-minute read
Japan leans in to the cyber fight. (Source: The CyberWire Daily Podcast)
Brandon joins CyberWire Daily to examine Japan's pivot from cyber isolationism to active defense, and to reframe space security as a question of critical infrastructure interdependence.
9-minute read
The First Island Kill Chain
A hundred miles from Taiwan, three flags rehearse an integrated missile salvo, anchored by Japan.
8-minute read
The Mythos Deferral
We (re)invented a governance vehicle last week. Its name is the Concert.
Trusted by national security, Fortune 100, and venture-backed leaders
Working together
A few engagements at a time.
Most of the work is private and senior. The questions tend to live where cyber, technical, supply chain, geopolitical, and economic risk collide, and where the right answer matters more than the fast one. If yours fits, send a note.