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Several new stories about the IO and more specifically CNO. Follow rapidly on the heels of the flail over Estonia (which was significant in certain ways though by no means special). Of particular...
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They’re Just Not That Into Us
I’ve been involved in information and computer security, in some fashion or variation, for most of my adult life. The strictly “computer” or “cyber” security experiences I’ve had, as it is commonly...
View ArticleCommercial CNO is Going Nowhere
If you follow cybersecurity issues you cannot have missed all the talk over the last few months about how businesses that have been victims of cyber attacks have grown “tired of playing defense.” If...
View ArticleOn “cyber intelligence”
Intelligence. From what I can tell it’s the new hotness in cybersecurity. From what I can tell it’s also not being done very well. The end result of course being that “intelligence” is treated as a fad...
View ArticleCyber Power: Shut Up Already
For the past several months (years, actually), cold warriors and their understudies who are desperately clinging to relevance have been filling the media with tales of cyber-Armageddon. If we don’t...
View ArticleThree Things You Cannot Do In Computer Security
Computer security is one of those fields where “everyone knows” what and how things are supposed to be done. The problem is that no matter how well you follow the best advice, you’re still going to...
View ArticleThe Lessons of PFC Manning
Make no mistake: PFC Manning made some very bad decisions and he should pay a very heavy price. Taking a step back, however, one can see that in his betrayal he has done something of a public service...
View ArticleCybersecurity Through the Lens of Matrimony
I spent this past weekend at a wedding of a friend and colleague. It was a singularly superlative experience. Of course since it was attended by a host of security nerds (including the groom) I found...
View ArticleCyber Responsibility: The Trickle-Down Effect
There was a time when cyber security was the sole responsibility of IT, but those days are long gone. Today’s executives know better than to presume themselves and their enterprises immune from a...
View ArticleWhat Value, Good Advice?
In cybersecurity you’re never very far from someone who is prepared to give you good advice, he said without any sense of irony. What makes anyone’s advice “good?” If its accurate and meaningful its...
View ArticleCyber Stars
/* Warning: Extensive over-use of the word “cyber” ahead. */ The other day my old friend and colleague Bob Gourley Tweeted: Random thought: There are 24 four-star flag officers in the U.S. military....
View ArticleIt’s the President…
It was announced today that Rob Joyce, the nation’s “Cyber Czar” was leaving the National Security Council and returning to his home agency, the NSA. Joyce, by all accounts a respected and capable...
View ArticlePick a Side; Make Some Noise
Leave it to Freshman to be at the right place, at the right time, with a hammer with which to hit the nail on the head. If you don’t know what I’m referring to check out these two posts on so-called...
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