Category: cyber-security
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COBOL (COBOL?), Defanging, and Still More Snowden Fallout
I was lucky enough to be asked, again, by Francis Rose to be on his regular Friday ‘Federal News Countdown”, this last Friday, January 31st. The show can be heard here: Federal News Countdown. The other guest was Jon Desenberg, the Policy Director for the Performance Institute, The Performance Insitute. For those unfamiliar with the…
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How Is Counterinsurgency Like the Way the Human Body Fights Disease?
Last week, I attended a Brookings Institute event, which focused on analogies between the human body, and how it reacts to disease and how nations react to insurgency. The speakers were General Stanley McChrystal, formerly commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan and now a senior fellow at Yale University, and Kristina Talbert-Slagle, an associate research…
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90% of the Cells in the Human Body Are, In Fact, Non-Human
No, this is not a reference to the latest Zombie movie and is not a typo. I was reading the latest issue of Science magazine which listed its top science subjects for 2013 (it is that season for lists). Their top subject was Microbiome. If my daughters were still in high school, microbiome would immediately…
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Federal News Countdown Stories – Mobile Apps, Continuous Monitoring, Confusion Around Intell Review Leadership
Last Friday, I was on the Federal News Countdown on WFED, hosted by Francis Rose, along with Steven Bucci, Director of the Douglas & Sarah Allison Center and Senior Fellow for Defense & Homeland Security at The Heritage Foundation. Here is the link to the broadcast: http://www.federalnewsradio.com/156/3425850/Federal-News-Countdown-New-DHS-contract-standardizes-cyber-protections-DoD-cuts-force-lower-sights-on-drones. The way the News Countdown works is that each…
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AMARC Update
As some of you know, Tom Suder and I have setup a non-profit called the Advanced Mobility Academic Research Center or AMARC, www.amarcedu.org. AMARC’s three broad goals are to: Increase the efficiency and optimize the delivery of government services in the US at all levels through the utilization of mobile communications technology Implement such efficiency…
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My Appearance on the Federal Countdown, April 26
This last Friday I participated in the Federal News Countdown with Ron Sanders, Booz Allen Hamilton, hosted by Francis Rose, WFED. The transcript and audio can be accessed here, http://www.federalnewsradio.com/86/3301646/Federal-News-Countdown-Furloughs-fizzle-spectrum-search-GS-update. The way the show works is that each guest brings three articles from their least important, number 3-3-3-3; to their most important, number well you…
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When Is It ‘Okay’ To Hack Into A System?
Recently there was a situation where a student at Dawson College in Montreal hacked into his school’s network and was expelled from the school. What seemed like a pretty obvious and reasonable result turned out not to be so clear-cut. Eric Chabrow wrote a column on this at govinfosecurity.com, The Ethics Behind Gray-Hat Hacking. He asked…
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Interviewed for the 29 Jan CTOvision Podcast
Bob Gourley and I have put in place an informal agreement for me to participate in the CTOvision Podcasts periodically. The focus will be relate to cybersecurity issues. The first podcast in the series was recorded yesterday, January 29th and can be accessed here: http://ctovision.com/2013/01/29-jan-cyber-podcast/
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Using Biological Constructs As Metaphors For Developing System Architecture
Last week I read about a research team at Harvard lead by George Church that encoded Church’s next book in DNA. As the write-up in the Harvard Medical School web page, http://hms.harvard.edu/content/writing-book-dna, said: “Although George Church’s next book doesn’t hit the shelves until Oct. 2, it has already passed an enviable benchmark: 70 billion copies—roughly triple…
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Thoughts On Technology Futures
For the last two year’s I have written, or largely written, the Powertek Corporation, www.powertekcorporation.com, response to a SmartCEO, http://www.smartceo.com/, set of questions associated with where Powertek is positioned technically and what that means to the company. While preparing this year’s, I looked at what I had written in 2011 and by golly, much of what…