July 2021 Update: Unfortunately we will be discontinuing this service effective this month. This is due to some insurmountable problems we have encountered with the platform provider, Thinkific. Please stay tuned for updates.
After a few false starts, some rebranding, and a pandemic, AISC is finally able to announce the launch of The Villain’s Guide to Drones™, an online platform dedicated to drone threats in domestic environments.
Yeah, The Villain’s Guide to Drones™. A little provocative, but it gets to the core of what we want to do with this service. The Villain’s Guide to Drones™, or VGD, was the nickname for our internal drone threat knowledge base started in 2016. We recognized early on more needs to be done for drone threats than exploiting the latest DJI drone or throwing a list of drone incidents on a blog. In a world of rapidly evolving drone technology and not a lot of good information on domestic drone threats, advanced threat modeling and simulation is needed to find the edges of the envelope before the bad guys. So, those most vulnerable to the drone threat do not suffer a failure of imagination when the future finally arrives on their doorstep.
The Villain’s Guide to Drones™ is the tool to deliver our brand of “threat R&D,” not to one client at a time like we have been doing, but to many. We are launching with eight courses across six tracks covering drone technology, threat actors, counter-UAS, and red teaming. This first group includes our SOARS™ methodology for finding drone launch sites, before the drone gets airborne. It also includes an online community to discuss our content and the events of the day as well as a reference section for building your own counter-UAS library. And this is just the start, we expect to add at least two courses per quarter backed by our extensive and still growing knowledge base. A knowledge base anchored by our Adversary Drone Application Model (ADAM™), a high-fidelity model for malicious drone use, and over 600 drone threat TTPs. If you have not seen us at conferences, industry days, or exercises, you can probably see now we have been a little busy.
We currently offer two plans: Individual and Corporate. Both have access to the same base of courses and tools, but the Corporate plan is tailored towards teams needing more interaction with AISC. Both plans can be purchased on a monthly or annual basis.