Jeremy Hefner
Researcher — Cyber Operations, Information Warfare, AI, and Systems Thinking
Portland, OR
About
Mr. Hefner is a security professional working at the intersection of cybersecurity, intelligence, and human-centric security. He brings together technical practice and strategic analysis to help organizations understand and counter evolving threats.
My current research focuses on cyber operations and intelligence, information and cognitive warfare, artificial intelligence, and systems thinking. Alongside this work, I am learning electronics engineering in preparation for a more hardware-defined future. Cyberbiosecurity remains a side research area — a quieter frontier I keep returning to.
Research Interests
- Cyber Operations & Intelligence
- Information & Cognitive Warfare
- Artificial Intelligence
- Systems Thinking
- Electronics Engineering (learning)
- Cyberbiosecurity (side research)
Recent Writing
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2025-02-20
LLMs as influence accelerants: automating narrative warfare
How large language models are reshaping the economics of influence operations — and why current detection methods are already obsolete.
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2025-02-03
eBPF for counterintelligence: tracing adversary behavior at the kernel level
Using eBPF to instrument Linux systems for real-time detection of lateral movement and data staging without relying on userspace agents.
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2025-01-22
Linux's /proc filesystem is a window into the running system. Here's exactly what you can and can't see as a regular user.
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2025-01-15
Every blog starts somewhere. Here's what this one is about and what I expect to write.