In his 2021 keynote for the International Seminar on Cyber-Defence & Cyber-Security, our principal designer Luis Martín “The Druid” looked the audience in the eye and said: “Cyber operations in this Cold War 2.0 never switch off, and the response window is measured in milliseconds.” Four years later, every headline confirms that warning, yet the practical blueprint he shared that day is still ahead of the curve.
What Luis actually said … and why it still matters
Continuous conflict. Threat actors (from states to criminal rings) strike 24 × 7 because it costs them only “hundreds of thousands” to inflict “millions” in damage.
Beyond the buzzword “cyber”. Luis rejects cyberwar in favour of security in the entire infosphere (psychological, physical and virtual) because the first blow today is often disinformation, the second a network breach and the third a physical disruption.
Predict → Adapt → Evolve. AI must deliver early warning, self-reconfiguration and continual learning so that defence outpaces offence.
Four-mode reasoning. He details how inductive, deductive, abductive and retroductive logic can be chained into software that plans and acts faster than any human staff process.
National AI doctrine. “Every country needs its own AI strategy for national security.” Off-the-shelf tools won’t defend unique geopolitical realities.
From vision to product: STERE
To operationalise that talk we design STERE a distributed engine that plans, simulates and launches thousands of high-precision strategies per second. STERE converts doctrine into computable “strategic equations”, integrates with SOCs, PSYOPS platforms and command-and-control systems, and scales from discreet sensors to multi-domain operations.
Why post-Ukraine 2025 validates Luis’s foresight
Ransomware crews now blend psychological extortion with wiper malware, proving his “multi-vector” thesis.
Governments are rushing to draft sovereign AI-security blueprints, exactly the policy gap he highlighted.
Industry’s pivot to adaptive and explainable cyber-defence echoes the Predict-Adapt-Evolve triad he spelled out on stage.
If your organisation still relies on manual playbooks and reactive dashboards, Luis’s message is clear: upgrade your strategy to machine-speed reasoning or accept strategic lag. Reach out to our team at Binomial C&D to see how STERE can embed Luis Martín’s automated-reasoning doctrine: predictive, adaptive and always evolving inside your own security stack.
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