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2010/12/25

Cyber-Spending: A Culture of Failure without Liability

The Success of Failure By Shane Harris sharris@nationaljournal.com April 4, 2007 Government Executive In 1999, program managers at the National Security Agency knew they were in trouble. A new and important electronic filtering system, code-named Trailblazer, wasn’t working as designed. Planners imagined it would automatically find phone calls, e-mails and electronic communications of terrorists and …

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2010/12/25

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 …

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2010/12/252010/12/25

Robert Garigue: Information Security MANDATE

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

2010/12/252010/12/25

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 …

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2010/12/21

2011 Top 10 Cyber Predictions (and Then Some)

2011 Top 10 Cyber Predictions Posted by Anup Ghosh on December 16, 2010 Everybody is putting out their Top 10 lists of predictions for 2011. Not to be left out of the party, below is a list of what we expect to see in 2011 in Cyber Security. 1. Malware. 2. Blame the User. 3. …

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2010/12/112010/12/11

Journal: Cyber-Idiocy Wipes Out Productivity

Information has never been so free. Even in authoritarian countries information networks are helping people discover new facts and making governments more accountable. — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, January 21, 2010 So much for that…. Military Bans Disks, Threatens Courts-Martial to Stop New Leaks By Noah Shachtman, Wired, December 9, 2010 | 7:02 …

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2010/12/112010/12/25

Graphic: Cyber-Threat 101

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? See Also: Journal: Army Industrial-Era Network Security + Cyber-Security RECAP (Links to Past Posts)