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...
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Technologists of all sort have been closely tracking events associated with cyber security, and most have been watching the many activities associated with White House efforts to enhance our ability to trust our digital infrastructure. In my view, technologists from academia, startups, IT providers, integrators and large enterprises (including the federal space) need to...
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I enjoyed listening to the President today as he provided an update on where we are in our efforts to enhance our freedom of action in cyberspace.  All the details are on the White House website and I hope you visit there yourself to download the 60-day cyberspace policy review. Details are here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/CyberReview/...
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Last week at the InfowarCon my friend Dan Kuehl handed me a copy of Cyberpower and National Security.  Cyberwar has been a topic Dan has been exploring in some detail for quite a while.  I first met Dan in 1996 when I was a student at the USMC Command and Staff College, and at...
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The Wall Street Journal just ran an article titled:  “New Military Command to Focus on Cybersecurity.”   In it they indicate “current and former officials familiar with the plans” say a new military command will be established to coordinate the defense of Pentagon computer networks and improve US offensive capabilities in cyberwar. WSJ also...
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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...
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Foreign spies are in our country for many bad reasons. Spies target defense secrets and seek to penetrate the decision-making process of our government leaders.  They also gain unauthorized access to information held by our nation’s corporations.  In this time of serious economic crisis this aspect of the threat from foreign spies is particularly...
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As I write this there is evidence that the Russian’s are once again attacking another country through massive denial of service attacks.  For a recap with analysis you will not see elsewhere see The Kyrgyzstan Cyber Attack That No One Is Talking About . This is not the first time that a major nation...
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Below I’m going to post, in its entirety, the text of an e-mail I received from the ODNI notification service.   The subject is an op-ed written by Melissa Hathaway, a senior leader who has been spearheading significant coordination action in the federal government (opinion: Melissa is perhaps the most effective SES-level leader in the...
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I recently read some GREAT news.  One of the nation’s greatest organizational/technological thinkers and entrepreneurs, Rod Beckstrom, has answered the call to service and will be joining the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Rod Beckstrom is famous for many things.  Among CTO s and enterprise technologists he is viewed as a champion for the...
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