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Cyber practitioners have long wondered when this would happen. Now it has. The President of the United States has finally realized that the threat from malicious actors in cyberspace has grown so significant that it bears mentioning in the State of the Union Address. In his January 24, 2012 State of the Union Address President Obama, while talking about America's military strength, said: "To stay one step ahead of our adversaries, I have already sent … [Read more...]
John Dodge (@thedodgeretort) and Bob Gourley (@bobgourley) review the Enterprise CIO Forum's (@ECIOForum) top 10 Cloud Security Tweets of the week in the following podcast. Tweets selected by John included: zdnet: Will cloud security ever be sufficient? http://t.co/vLJjhFAY cloudsa: (ISC)² and The Cloud Security Alliance Expand Cloud Security Offerings to their Memberships... http://t.co/c80DntRK chrispirillo: How secure is … [Read more...]
I've previously written about some of the challenges of IT support in the national security space. Leaders have to balance competing mandates of mission support and security and have to do that in an environment constrained by resource limits and slowed by layers of oversight. One of the most challenging positions in the national security space is the CIO job at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. This position is complicated because it … [Read more...]
With this note I want to provide a three excerpts from writings of one of our nation's greatest cyber strategists, Melissa Hathaway. Melissa has been involved in national security issues at the highest levels of government and is known globally as a cyber thought leader for good reason. Her actions and vision for continued progress in the cyber domain are compelling. The work she did on the Comprehensive National Cyber Initiative (CNCI) is still … [Read more...]
I have a thesis I would like to try on you. In the IT world, like in many other human endeavors, the things that get measured get improved. And the things that don't get measured are easy to ignore. So, when the world's largest IT enterprise (the US federal government) starts measuring IT differently we need to take note. Specifically the feds will be improving the measurement of energy efficiencies of IT. This will be done to meet goals mandated … [Read more...]
For your viewing pleasure I provide below ten "must see" videos I recommend to any enterprise-class Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Information Officer (CIO). Each presents information we should all be thinking through regarding the future of IT and each can add value to your strategic planning. Your comments/suggestions/thoughts on this list would be most appreciated. The Top Ten CTO Videos from CTOvision.com Game Changing Wearable Tech from … [Read more...]
The last 12 months has seen a significant amount of progress in our nation's awareness of cyber threats and in our collective actions to address the security of our IT systems. However, a huge amount of work remains to be done. In a cyber context, the situation is a little like the one Winston Churchill described when he said: "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." We in … [Read more...]
Followers of the cyber initiative and its related work have been strongly encouraged by the kickoff of a 60 day study tasked by the White House and led by Melissa Hathaway. Melissa was named by President Obama to conduct this review. As has been reported here in previous posts Melissa is one of the most effective, efficient senior executives in public service, and I have no doubt she will execute this task in a way that benefits the nation. As an … [Read more...]
[amtap book:isbn=1934840807] The world does not change in discrete, binary steps. There is a great deal of continuity from the past to the present and on to the future. But many of us sense things are different in the world today. Technology is changing every life and every business, economic megatrends are producing changes, war and conflict and terrorism inject uncertainty, and the entire dynamic of human events is moving faster and faster. On … [Read more...]
This is an update of an article I published last August in Social Computing Magazine (a great enterprise Web2.0 site edited by Dion Hinchcliffe). A key goal of this piece has been to encourage more in the national security world to use capabilities like Facebook, LinkedIn, Blogs, and of course Twitter. If you know someone you would like to encourage to use these sites please feel free to lift from this. If you know of other sites or capabilities … [Read more...]
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