Dr. Robert Garigue passed away 10 January 2007 at the age of 55. He was the only person we knew then or know of today that was deliberately and completely integrating belief systems, knowledge, information, data, security, and technology as a single cyberspace.
He rose to early prominence and global respect among the information security and information warfare professionals who understood in the early 1990's that cyber-space was becoming a rat's nest of unmanageable and very vulnerable combinations of kludge hardware and sofware with built-in vulnerabilities–500 of them found by the National Security Agency (NSA) in just one year of checking shrink-wrapped products coming across the loading dock (1992).
He emerged as a leader from within the Canadian military, where as a Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy of Canada he quickly became the leading specialist in this field, an advisor to flag officers and policy leaders. After retirement he went on to become one of the leading proponents for deep broad cyber-security across the Canadian financial system. As Vice President for Information Integrity and Chief Security Executive for Bell Canada, and as Chief Information Security Officer for the Bank of Montreal, he led the way in striving to recognize information security as a guarantor of truth & trust that enabled multinational information-sharing and sense-making, not as a series of Maginot Lines destroying both internal productivity and external effect.
Principal Works:
2006: Technical Preface by Robert Garigue from Information Operations – All Information, All Languages, All the Time
Robert Garigue on Advanced Information Operations
Robert Garigue: The New Information Security Agenda–Managing the Emerging Semantic Risks
Robert Garigue: The Evolving Role of the Chief Information Security Officer within the new structures of Information Systems
Gunnar Peterson on Robert Garigue’s Last Briefing
Robert Garigue: Early Work on Information Warfare (1995)
Robert Garigue: Carleton University Research Page
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