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
12-minute read
The National Reflex
The internet has no borders. Our defense of it has nothing but.
1-minute read
GPS has no backup, and the jamming just moved to orbit. (Source: T-Minus Space-Cyber Briefing)
Brandon joins T-Minus to break down new evidence that GPS jamming has moved from cheap ground devices into space, and to argue that position, navigation, and timing is critical infrastructure with no resilient fallback.
5-minute read
The $1,000 Quote and the $50 Fix
A furnace, a fog lamp, and the tax you never knew you were paying.
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.