EWSRC produces commissioned intelligence on critical infrastructure threats, built on The Observatory: the open, cross-sector record of 3,500+ verified incidents across all 16 CISA sectors, maintained by our principal and free to every defender. Twelve-plus years on the ground in the Indo-Pacific inform every engagement. Commissioned work is what keeps the open record open.
Anyone can read The Observatory — that's the point. What you commission from EWSRC is what the record means for you: your sector against the fifteen next door, your footprint against the actors rehearsing in low-attention regions, your board's question answered in a document they can actually share. Every engagement dollar sustains the open platform.
Three ways to work with EWSRC. Every engagement is researched and written by the principal, sourced entirely in the open, and checkable against the public record — delivered without classification friction. And because commissioned work funds The Observatory, hiring EWSRC keeps the commons standing watch for everyone else.
How does your sector's threat picture actually compare to the fifteen next door? A benchmark built from The Observatory's enriched layer — severity scoring and actor extraction across all 3,500+ incidents — that no sector-siloed vendor can produce.
A standing intelligence function scoped to your footprint, for less than half the fully loaded cost of a single senior analyst.
Original 30 to 70 page study on a threat or question. Scoped in days. Delivered under your imprint or EWSRC byline, shareable without the classification friction of platform intelligence.
The Observatory (16sectors.org) is a free, structured record of 3,500+ verified cyber incidents across all 16 CISA sectors, spanning 25+ years of incident history — compiled by EWSRC's principal and maintained as a public good, free to every defender, forever. EWSRC's commissioned work is what sustains it.
The record, aimed at your question.
Benchmarks, retained intelligence, commissioned studies. Researched and briefed by the principal.
Severity scoring and actor extraction across every incident.
Structured exports, data dictionary, persistent identifiers, API access. Included with the EWSRC retainer.
3,500+ verified incidents. 16 of 16 CISA sectors. Open to every defender.
Read, cite, report, and convene at 16sectors.org — no license, no fee, no credential.
Data licensing lives at 16sectors.org. Analysis lives here. If you're deciding between the two: license the enriched layer when your team will do the analysis; commission EWSRC when you need the answer.
Explore 16sectors.orgOriginal research and analysis published across peer-reviewed platforms, industry publications, and syndicated by strategic research institutions across four continents.
EWSRC produces intelligence using open-source methods exclusively. No classified material informs any EWSRC product. Every analysis is sourced to public, checkable materials and delivered with full attribution chains.
All analysis built from publicly available materials, free from classification friction.
Every claim footnoted and linked to verifiable sources for board-level confidence.
All work researched, written, and briefed by Christopher Braccia — one accountable byline.
EWSRC engagements fund The Observatory, keeping the full incident record free for defenders, researchers, and small operators worldwide.
Principal, East West Strategic Research Collective
EWSRC exists because the most important patterns sit between the silos. Platform vendors watch one sector at a time. Regional specialists watch one theater at a time. The adversary does neither: capabilities are incubated against low-attention targets in low-attention regions, matured, and then turned against high-value infrastructure in the West.
Braccia documented that thesis in From Vietnam to Volt Typhoon, cited by the UK National Cyber Security Centre's CTO and syndicated across four continents, and extended it in Algorithmic Siege. It is now the operating method of the firm: twelve-plus years living and working in Asia, direct professional experience across seven of the sixteen CISA critical infrastructure sectors, eleven publications, and The Observatory — the open record he maintains at 16sectors.org, spanning 25+ years of incident history — to make the pattern measurable.
Every deliverable is researched, written, and briefed by the principal. What you read in the published work is exactly what a commissioned engagement looks like, aimed at your question instead of ours.