4thGen
Why 4thGen?

4thGen derives its name from a 2018 speech where Alex Younger, Chief of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), made the case for a new era of tradecraft to meet the challenges of a dramatically changing operating environment.

Younger said "The era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution calls for fourth-generation espionage: fusing our traditional human skills with accelerated innovation…The degree of interconnectedness between nations, peoples, and systems today, the ubiquitous nature of information, and the exponential pace of technological change, are making the world dramatically more complicated…The digital era has profoundly changed our operating environment."

4thGen has next generation tradecraft talent.

We have unique access to former staff personnel.
We attract the highest qualified, most experienced, and operationally savvy professionals.
4thGen knows the mission and has done the work.

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Mission Enablement

4thGen's high level of experience, expertise, and enthusiasm translates to superior mission support to each client, program, and partner.

Mission Enablement
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Insider Risk Services

Very few people spent full careers legally creating insiders. 4thGen's team did just that. This unique experience enables superior insider risk mitigation.

Insider Risk
4thGen

"The fourth industrial revolution will lead to a fusion of our physical, digital and biological identity"


Klaus Schwab

Chairman, World Economic Forum

"There are only two types of companies in the world: those who've been compromised by their employees and know it, and those who don't know it."


Val LeTellier

Founder, 4thGen LLC

"Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead."


Benjamin Franklin

"Amateurs hack systems. Professionals hack people."


Bruce Schneier

Security Technologist, Harvard Kennedy School

"Companies spend millions on firewalls and secure access devices, and it's money wasted because none of it addresses the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer and operate computer systems."


Kevin Mitnick

Security Technologist, Famed Computer Hacker

"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."


George Orwell

"With the digital age on the rise, the world of intelligence has been undergoing profound change. Technology and growing interconnectivity remain at the epicenter of this reshuffle. The game and its rules will never be the same."


Dr. Can Kasapoglu

Analyst, Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM)

"If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology."


Bruce Schneier

Security Technologist, Harvard Kennedy School

"Attackers think differently. They apply singular mission focus, determined patience, nonlinear thinking, backward reasoning and a ‘by any means necessary' conviction. Defenders must understand and leverage the attacker mentality when countering their most costly threats."


Val LeTellier

Founder, 4thGen LLC

"Our mobile phones have become the greatest spy on the planet."


John McAfee

"If you want to know how evil thinks, go hire operators, not people in suits. They are out there, they have good hearts and souls, just really complex minds that border on scary."


John Gomez

CEO, Sensato

"The Fourth Industrial Revolution includes mobile devices, Internet of things (IoT) platforms, location detection technologies (electronic identification), advanced human-machine interfaces, authentication and fraud detection, smart sensors, big analytics and advanced processes, multilevel customer interaction and customer profiling”


Wikipedia

"What is the biggest challenge faced by a CIO or CISO? My answer is always -- "they are good people." They are not criminals, spies or terrorists. They simply do not have the perspective of evil, and that leads to a failed and unrealistic understanding of the threat environment."


Dave Komendat

CSO, Boeing

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."


Stephen Hawkins

" …when companies had an insider threat, they were much more costly than external incidents. This was largely because the insider that is smart has the skills to hide the crime, for months, for years, sometimes forever."


Larry Ponemon

Founder & Chairman, The Ponemon Institute

"People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems."


Bruce Schneier

Security Technologist, Harvard Kennedy School

"There is no place where espionage is not possible."


Sun Tzu

"Don't look at the stranger and jump to conclusions. Look at the stranger's world."


Malcolm Gladwell

Talking to Strangers

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