Core of U.S. Intelligence Functions to Focus on Support to Military Operations (SMO)

President Obama appears to have no interest in the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) as a source of accurate information for decision making and policy formulation. John Brennan, his counter-terrorism chief and principal advisor on intelligence issues routinely circumvents the IC when the administration needs strategic intelligence to guide its national security deliberations.  During the last …

Robert Garigue: Role of the Chief Information Security Officer

IMPORTANT:  The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is not the Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) nor the Mission Commander or the Mission Logistics Officer or any of the other mission support specialties.   The point is that security and knowledge must co-exist and in collaboration with one another, the CISO and CKO need to ensure that the …

Robert Garigue: The Evolving Role of the Chief Information Security Officer within the new structures of Information Systems

Briefing as Presented Seminal Technical Preface (2008) Gunnar Peterson on Robert Garigue’s Last Briefing Core Slides as Expandable JPEG with Comments: Robert Garigue: When Everything Else is Distributed…. Robert Garigue: Information Security MANDATE Robert Garigue: Structuring Risks (Role of Security) Robert Garigue: Evolution of Cyber-Space Robert Garigue: Three Information Security Domains–the Physical (Old), the Process …