MikeI’ve made my thoughts on the value of cybersecurity awareness month pretty clear. Cybersecurity doesn’t actually improve come 1 November. Cybersecurity awareness month has become […]
Category: Reform
If You Want Better Cyber Policy, Put More Nerds in Charge
The decades-long effort to develop solutions to cyber insecurity has been led by the usual suspects drawn from the policy and legal community. That’s not […]
Dear Air Force: Aim Higher
I was in the Army, so if you think that’s disqualifier, you can hit your browser’s back button and move on. This week the Air […]
Cybersecurity 2030
Discussions about cybersecurity overwhelmingly focus on the recent, which are our responses to the design and engineering decisions of the past. We are right to […]
Speed and Scale
There is no shortage of good ideas in cybersecurity, but what divides the best concepts from the best solutions is how quickly and widely they can be employed. Meaningful success demands you work at combat speed and on a global scale.
End Cybersecurity Awareness Month
Management guru Peter Drucker said, “what gets measured gets managed.” Which helps to explain why October – Cybersecurity Awareness Month – is such a bad […]
R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
No regime that works for bugs, gas, or isotopes is going to work for code.
Ransomware: The Present We Deserve?
The scourge of ransomware is the inevitable result of decades of schizophrenia about our relationship with information technology and security. Treating this problem like all […]
The Global Ungoverned Area
Looking at the Internet through Westphalian-tinted glasses is not going to make us safer or more secure.
C.R.E.A.M. IoT Edition
We can go round and round about what’s going to drive improvements in computer security writ large, but when you boil it down it’s really only about one of and/or two things: money and bodies.