Brandon Karpf
Multi-order risk. Multinational resilience.
I help executives read risk before it lands.
Every read comes from somewhere I’ve stood: the watchfloor at Cyber Command, a startup I cofounded, the deal table at Fulcrum.
SECURITY
Where the threat lives
I run international security partnerships for a Global Fortune 100. Through Bombadil I work as a fractional CISO and run AI-enabled vulnerability research and penetration tests. Before that, I directed offensive operations at NSA and U.S. Cyber Command.
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 when capital meets conflict.
Capital thesisVOICE
A discipline of seeing
A Discipline of Seeing is my weekly column on the strategy calls national security and technology force on executives. Plus podcasts, keynotes, a risk forecasting workshop, and the occasional book.
Read the writing
11-minute read
The Lethality Certificate
The Naval Academy's Acting Provost explains the new curriculum, shipmates.
7-minute read
You Break It, You Buy It
They build the risk, they sell the cure, and nobody makes them pay for the damages.
2-minute read
You can't evict your way out of the internet.
Source: The CyberWire Special Edition
Where I have done the work
Working together
A few engagements at a time.
Most of the work is private. It lives where cyber, supply chain, geopolitical, and economic risk collide. If your question fits, send a note.