Robert Garigue: Structuring Risks (Role of Security)

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 …

Robert Garigue: When Everything Else is Distributed….

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 …

Journal: Wind Power Boondoggle–and the Information Operations (IO) Challenge of Energy and Time in Relation to Policy, Acquisition, and Operations

My good friend Robert Bryce, author of the must-read Power Hungry: The Myths of ‘Green’ Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future just launched this little torpedo. A Wind Power Boonedoggle T. Boone Pickens badly misjudged the supply and price of natural gas. By ROBERT BRYCE, Wall Street Journal, 22 December 2010 After 30 …