The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Core Point: Information Security must enable both risk and advance–for example, M4IS2 (multinational, multiagency, multidisciplinary, multidomain information-sharing and sense-making). Today cyber-security is an OBSTACLE to progress because it is, in one word, retarded–in two-words, risk-averse rather than risk-bounding.
See Also:
Robert Garigue, “Technical Preface” to Book Three
Robert Garigue, CISO Briefing
Credited by Robert Garigue to Gabe Davids of EDS.
Core Point: Done properly, security enables MORE risk-taking, allows one to do MORE with LESS. In other words, cyber-security policies that are risk-averse instead of risk-enabling are, in a word, retarded and retard the enterprise. Case in point: Wikileaks leading to no more flash drives–what SHOULD be in place is all the flash drives one wishes, but embedded security that prevents or flags abuse of those flashdrives.
See Also:
Robert Garigue, “Technical Preface” to Book Three
Robert Garigue, CISO Briefing
Core Point: It is not possible to have centralized cyber-anything if both the human end-users and all of the (multi-media and multi-lingual) data is distributed. This is especially true of security, which is historically several steps behind mission area processes to begin with, and any form of top-down “regulation” that tends to appear after the fact rather than “just in time.”
See Also:
Robert Garigue, “Technical Preface” to Book Three
Robert Garigue, CISO Briefing
As first used in a briefing to the National Security Agency conference in Las Vegas, 9 January 2002.
2002 The New Craft of Intelligence–What Should the T Be Doing to the I in IT?
Journal: Army Industrial-Era Network Security + Cyber-Security RECAP (Links to Past Posts)
Reference: No Labels “Non-Party” = “Four More Years” for Wall Street
Reference: How the Oligarchs Took America
Reference: Transparency Killer App Plus “Open Everything” RECAP (Back to 01/2007)
Tip of the Hat to ABSOLUT's Prior Art
