Journal: Analysis of STUXNET, Iran, and US Vulnerability

David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Christina Walrond 22 December 2010, Preliminary Assessment Did Stuxnet Take Out 1,000 Centrifuges at the Natanz Enrichment Plant? 10 pages Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) Phi Beta Iota: US Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) computer systems are still on the Internet and still very vulnerable to internal …

Robert Garigue & Robert Steele: From Old IO to New IO

Old Information Operations (IO) is too focused on the “Maginot Line” of legacy technology badly integrated and poorly understood.  New Information Operations (IO) is the “Maneuver Warfare” of the Information Age.  The integrity is in the user and data, not the system. Truth & trust rather than deception & jamming are the primordal enablers. This …

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 …