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 …
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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 …
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Secret Intelligence is 10% of All-Source Intelligence; All-Source Intelligence is 10% of Information Operations (IO) What is Advanced Cyber/IO (AC/IO)? Robert Garigue died before he could finish his master work. This is Ref A.
Public Health Information Technology: Additional Strategic Planning Needed to Guide HHS’s Efforts to Establish Electronic Situational Awareness Capabilities GAO-11-99 December 17, 2010 A catastrophic public health event could threaten our national security and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties. Recognizing the need for efficient sharing of real-time information to help prevent devastating consequences of public …
PART I: The Only Way to Fix the Deficit–Multiply Jobs (William Drayton) PART II: Nice Ideas But So Is Icing Cover Feces (Robert Steele) PART III: Create Jobs? As an End In Themselves? To Do What? Why? (Alexander Carpenter) PART IV: Related Recommended Reading (Robert Steele) The core take-away (from PART III) Beyond its inherent …
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This search is a VERY important one, and does not yield the correct answer, which is in itself an indictment of information technology. The correct answer is NEGATIVE, and Paul Strassmann, former Director of Defense Information, is the person who established this fact for the top corporations, although he likes to soft-shoe it and say …
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