Cyber Security

While rummaging through old files on my hard drive I encountered a piece I wrote in June 2002 which captured in writing something I had been briefing for several years.  I had been briefing “Principles” which I had observed/learned while the J2 of DoD’s JTF-CND and then later J2 of JTF-CNO.   My theory was...
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On 21 January 2010 Secretary of State Clinton delivered a speech on the topic of Internet Freedom. This is a very good presentation of policy worth a complete read by all, but I looked through it for statements indicating what we technologists should focus on.  I tried to find the phrases indicating...
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I almost didn’t see a need to write this post.  Most CTOvision.com readers, I believe, are technically savvy folks who are already avid readers of security and technology news.   But you are also a very busy bunch and some of you might not have gotten the word yet.  And I thought some of you...
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Most enterprise technologists should see a continued payoff of the hard work in planning, architecture, documentation, development and configuration work that has been occurring over the last several years.  Enterprise technologists were building Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) long before SOA was over-hyped.  And most enterprise technologists I know were investigating constructs of scalable, elastic...
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One of the great resources for tracking trends in Open Government, Gov2.0 and related activities is GovFresh.com, a site I recommend all visit and bookmark and track.  GovFresh founder Luke Fretwell can be found on GovLoop, LinkedIn, Twitter. Luke recently asked several folks who track the Gov2.0 scene for thoughts on the recent Reactions to...
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A year and a half ago I pulled together several thoughts on Cyber Deterrence which had come out of years of dialog on the cyber threat.   I wanted to capture some key challenges since in my view many were making foolish assumptions regarding what our nation should do in the domain of cyber.  There...
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If you are an enterprise CTO I’m hoping you already have the site of the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) bookmarked.  It it has been a while since you have seen their site please check it out at http://www.us-cert.gov They provide important resources for any enterprise technologist, not just security professionals. Organizationally they have...
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I really feel sorry for the modern consumer.  None of us, even those of us with computer science degrees, can really assess the security of our computer systems (at least not with any precision).  We can study historical trends and glean lessons on which operating systems are more secure and we can educate ourselves...
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I’ve had the pleasure of watching and studying many enterprise class CIOs and CTOs.  And I’ve performed CIO duties and once was an enterprise CTO myself.  In my opinion, enterprise CIOs and CTOs have it really really hard.  The bigger the enterprise the harder it can be to get anything done.   There are lots...
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Cloud Computing is one of the many things enterprise CIOs, CTOs and other engineers will master in delivering capability.  I believe in the power of new Cloud Computing technologies and concepts and think we should all continue our focus there. I have said, and still say, the same thing about design approaches like Service Oriented...
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