#197 Maksym Tereshchenko on How the Russia-Ukraine War Sparked a New Era in Risk Management and Cognitive Security

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During this episode, Maksym Tereshchenko of Mantis Analytics discusses his firm’s AI platform and how it is being used within the informational dimension of the Russia-Ukraine War.

Recording Date: 19 July 2024

Research Question: Maksym Tereshchenko suggests as interested student examine: 

1. How can we accurately measure the impact of an influence campaign on people's behavior?
2. NATO and US doctrine categorize domains as air, sea, land, space, and cyber. What about the informational domain? A critical challenge lies in measuring and depicting visually the interactions among events across these domains and their mutual influence.

Resources:

• Mantis Analytics
• Manto
• Telegram: a new era of messaging
• “We Are Bellingcat” by Eliot Higgins
• "Corporate Security Intelligence and Strategic Decision-Making" by Justin Crump

Link to full show notes and resources

Guest Bio: With nearly two dozen years in IT, Maksym Tereshchenko has worked his way up to the top, building data and AI products. He has worked in a variety of settings: from the grandeur of big corporations to the humble beginnings of startups. But everything changed with Russia’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine. February 2022 marked a turning point: driven by the mission to help the Ukrainian resistance, Maksym gathered a team of volunteers, setting a mission to make Ukrainian institutions informationally resilient, able to leverage AI to manage physical and informational risks, including identifying Russian influence campaigns, and containing narrative warfare. Thus, the story of Mantis Analytics began.

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