Pathway boundary: This record describes useful work and evidence, not personal fitness, status, eligibility, membership, appointment, or authority. Different tasks require different combinations of credentials, operational authority, lived expertise, community legitimacy, and independent review.
Scope
Preserve trustworthy software, procedures, archives, keys, and recovery while excluding offensive use and life-critical AI authority.
Prerequisite boundary
Defensive security, safety, OT, software assurance, archival practice, and operations are relevant; offensive capability is out of scope.
First bounded artifact
A bounded threat model and rehearsed recovery record.
Decision boundary
Independent cyber stop-work; no offensive scope and no generative model with direct authority.
Connected capability areas
Entry routes
Different starting points and evidence of progress| Starting point | First action | Evidence of progress |
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| curious | Verify whether one critical procedure remains usable offline and without an LLM. | A documented gap or reproducible offline copy with provenance. |
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| student | Threat-model a synthetic disconnected habitat using only civil and defensive scenarios. | A bounded model with prohibited paths and recovery objectives. |
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| practitioner | Rehearse restore, revocation, and anti-rollback against a synthetic incident. | Recovery evidence reviewed independently from implementation. |
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Current event starting points
Task-derived event matches; no registration or submission undertaken| Event | Tier | Dates | Artifact |
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| NIST Software and Supply Chain Assurance Forum | monitor | 2026-09-22–2026-09-23 | A public defensive recovery requirements crosswalk; no implication of NIST approval. |
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Monitored opportunities
Task-derived opportunity matches; eligibility and availability are unproven| Opportunity | Tier | Fit boundary |
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| NIST NCCoE collaboration | monitor | Project-specific public collaboration may fit a civil recovery use case; acceptance and independence are not implied. |
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Editorial review state
- Status
- leadership pathway editorial draft; independent review pending
- Reviewer
- GShips Project editorial synthesis
- Last reviewed
- 2026-07-25
- Conflicts
- The maintainer intends to explore a commercial venture based on some GShips work. No entity, outside funding, customer, sponsor, or indexed-organization relationship currently exists.
- What would change this pathway?
- Independent curriculum review, task evidence, access findings, or a changed prerequisite or decision boundary would change this pathway.
Inspect current starting points
Structured leadership pathway; independent curriculum, access, and institutional review pending · Last edited 2026-07-25 · Suggest a correction