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Strategic cyber intelligence, competitive intelligence, and training from scholar-practitioners who have served at the intersection of national security, business, and academia.
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What We Do
Three practices and a growing product line, one mission: help organizations make better decisions under uncertainty.
[**Consulting**
Strategic cyber security and competitive intelligence for governments and the private sector — hands-on guidance from people who have done the work.
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Single lectures, daylong seminars, and multi-day courses on cyber policy, strategy, and intelligence tradecraft — taught by scholar-practitioners.
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Sustained, in-house intelligence capabilities — we help you build internal teams that apply professional tradecraft, and develop custom software to streamline their work.
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A growing line of software platforms. Anchored by Woodhull — our intelligence analyst wargame on the ShrimpToast engine — and expanding into new learning and operational tools for critical thinking, collaboration, certification, privacy, and global risk.
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A Consortium of Scholar-Practitioners
Water Dragons Consulting is a veteran-owned small business focused on strategic cyber intelligence and competitive intelligence. We work with high-profile U.S. and international organizations.
Our staff includes military officers, diplomats, Fulbright scholars, intelligence professionals, cybersecurity practitioners, linguists, professors, and former senior government officials.
“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence — it is to act with yesterday's logic.”
— Peter F. Drucker, Managing in Turbulent Times(1980)“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.”
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War“Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower, remarks to the National Defense Executive Reserve Conference, November 14, 1957
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