I recently was having a discussion with a noted scholar of conflict and I said “throwing history under the bus” meaning lets look at this thing as a new thing. My goal was to get out of the box of…
3 pages of heuristics, some data sets, and one graph
Something I’m working on.
Today’s Picture – December 22nd, 2011
Identifying strategic traits and learning objectives
I’ve been working a project identifying a comprehensive cyber curriculum. The various standard infosec curriculums are primarily for non-conflict oriented entities, and NIST/NICE is really a human resources hiring tool. One aspect of this tasking is looking at the idea…
Today’s Picture – December 21st, 2011
Today’s Picture – December 20th, 2011
Risky business with national budgets
If you hear an information technology professional say there are risks to an organization fire them. There is only risk. Risk is a state of possible negative consequences and stating there are multiple risks is glossing over a deeper reality.…
Today’s Picture – December 19th, 2011
Personal technology plan year end update
End of the year and time to reflect on a few things. Every year I try and make some predictions, see how I’ve done on some others, and plan out some goals for the rest of the year. I also…
Thinking about cyber conflict and the role of metaphors in strategy and tactics
Technology and tactics within the realm of cyber conflict are fairly well understood. Networks have been with us for a long time, and we have a fairly good grasp on the exploitation of vulnerabilities. Yet there is an unhealthy focus…
Threats and heuristics in enterprise risk management (infosec)
When trying to assess enterprise risk and the threats vectors that create risk there are standard models or derivations of frameworks that are found in the literature such as NIST and Octave-Allegro . The current practice is to take the various…
Why a cyber Billy Mitchell/Hyman Rickover won’t fix this…
Rickover and Mitchell were visionary ambassadors and petty tyrants of their respective domains of war fighting. Each working in their own peculiar way eviscerated leadership on the way to promoting new ways of waging war. The history is pretty detailed…
Vegan Ravioli
Here is one of the challenges I have been facing our vegetarian diet. My husband love ravioli. He is also lactose intolerant. The challenge has been to find a no cheese ravioli. You can easily find ravioli filled with meat…
Who wrote Stuxnet?
Who cares?
Blood is thicker than TCP/IP
Jeffrey Carr predicts 2012 isn’t going to be a pretty way forward for information security professionals, industry or governments. He has a couple of points I’d like to dissect a little bit. I’m not much for alarm bells. We’ve had…