On my two hour run today I was thinking about information security and the research vectors that I see within the discipline. I don’t publish very much so I have little effect on the space. I was thinking about how…
Words matter
This is a little bit of a rant. I have been noticing an increase in over the top marketing language. We have revolutionary new products. We have wars on everything from drugs to Christmas. We see it and hear it…
Today’s Photo – January 2, 2012
Today’s Photo – December 27th, 2011
Today’s Picture – December 26th, 2011
Today’s Picture – December 24th, 2011
Today’s Picture – December 23rd, 2011
Out of the box thinking versus pliable biases
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.…