Earlier today, October 28, I was priviledged to give a talk at the National Defense Industrial Association about Social Network & Cybersecurity.
My focus was to review why Social Network has taken off in the last few years and what implications for the future based on those conclusions. I also briefly reviewed Cloud Computing using some of Peter Mell’s slides from his presentation at the same conference on Monday, with his permission of course.
I had three major points.
First that the first two of my standard triad of fast computers, fast networks, and fast sensors lead to significantly lower transactional costs and thus directly, or indirectly, caused social network and for that matter, cloud computing, to become much more possible.
Second, that fast sensors will throw the cards up in the air again by integrating reality and virtual reality in what I refer to as the ‘immersive internet’.
Third, that all institutions are or will be forced to adjust to these changes including the Federal Government.
Tieing this all together I noted that in my opinion at least it is not possible to be completely successful at both information sharing and information protection. That each organization needed to choose which way they would lean. And those that ignored information sharing had a good chance of failing altogether.
My last slide quoted former DNI Director Mike McConnell from January 2009 which dealt with these same issues. When I got to the meeting I found out that McConnell in fact would be speaking and doing so immediately preceding me. What a thrill when he stayed through my entire presentation and I was able to talk to him for a bit about all this after my talk. His presentation was a tough one to follow, he is extremely entertaining and insightful.
Assuming I have figured out how to do this, my presentation should be below: