What does the corporate world bring to cyber warfare? I asked this question in a conference setting surrounded by military types and to stunned amazement listened to twenty minutes of how the corporate world has no place in cyber warfare.…
Cyber warfare: The intelligence community
It was a dark and stormy night. In the darkness so deep that hearts shrink from fear and apathy. The bright star of hope rose slowly and emblazoned on the star were the letters C-I-A. Oh, wait. That was swamp…
Cyber warfare: The military community
The military has been an active, interested, busy, and pretty much clueless newbie to the art and practice of cyber warfare. Recently I was told, “You don’t know what we don’t know behind the top secret doors of the Pentagon”.…
Cyber warfare: Communities
Cyber warfare means many different things to people. As a population of researchers and practitioners we have a tendency to bring our own biases to the processes of evaluating the domain. Whether we are part of the military, intelligence, corporate,…
Academia
“In academia there is no reason for two adversaries to take the field where one triumphs at the expense of the other. Rather in education, scholarship transcends winning and losing, by fostering learning” – anonymous
If I was czar for a day: Poking stakeholders is fun
The new cyber coordinator position (AKA cyber czar) as described is a position with no real authority, lots of responsibility, and minimal resources. In most worldly views this is an abhorrent lack of command and control for the cyber security…
South by South West (SXSW)
Here is my submission for South by South West! Help a guy out we need all the votes we can get. If you like the idea vote it up!
Running: Why I got off the couch and into the street
I’m ugly, bald, old, and fat. Given the aforementioned I can do little about the first three that won’t require substantial surgery or a time machine. Though surgery is always an option on the last so is simply not sitting…
The 2009 High-density Garden Blog – Week 8/9
It has been over a month since I updated you on the garden! In those weeks, we went away on vacation, which can spell doom for a garden due to lack of water or back aches for the garden due…
How Completing a PhD is like Running an Ultra Marathon
A couple of thing you should know about me. First, I am in the process of completing my PhD and second, I have recently taken up running. I began both of these pursuits reluctantly. I began my PhD course work…
Cyber warfare: Call in the generals march out the peons
Recently it was brought to my attention that Raytheon was seeking Cyber Warriors in answer to Presidents Obama’s call for cyber security response and change. When you consider that the resulting legislation storm has left us with a host of…
Semper Cyber: A motto for a new military command
It looks like the Department of Defense (DOD) is going to create a cyber warfare command that may have a war fighting capacity. There are issues with creating a single command structure, there are issues with the military trying to…
Oh no my parents joined FaceBook: Where lame 20 something’s blindly blather like the idioterati
Seeing this meme roll through the Web 2.0 sphere as shocked and horrified stories of adult children are arrogantly disgusted that their social activities are ousted to their parents is hilarious. What isn’t so hilarious is the whimsical childishness of…
A cyber warfare infrastructure: The high level architecture
How do you wage cyber warfare? How do you make a world wide reach? What does it look like? What can we count on for results? All of these questions are part of the process of designing and implementing a…
How to wage cyber warfare: Concluding remarks, Part 10
With this ten part series I wanted to get some ideas down and hopefully start some discussion. Over the last few weeks each segment has looked at cyber warfare from a different viewpoint. I’ve been told that my blog posts…