Think Big on Cyber
An innovative thinker, David McMahon, of SecDev sent me a fascinating piece the other day entitled Think Big on Cyber. The folks at SecDev do some of the most cutting edge security work I know and they are well worth listening to. Here's a small taste:
There are a couple of characteristics of cyberspace that many of us take for granted but need to think through critically.
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An innovative thinker, David McMahon, of SecDev sent me a fascinating piece the other day entitled Think Big on Cyber. The folks at SecDev do some of the most cutting edge security work I know and they are well worth listening to. Here's a small taste:
There are a couple of characteristics of cyberspace that many of us take for granted but need to think through critically. First, is that cyberspace is a synthetic domain, but with a very real physical and human presence. There is an important point in understanding that the synthetic aspect of cyberspace means that it is a domain, which is uniquely described in data. There is nothing that exists in cyberspace that does not leave a trace, which is quantifiable, capturable, and ultimately, subject to analysis. Second, that data resides, transits, or is created by physical devices (physical end-points) that have, both a temporal, a geographic, and a social component. Those three things can be correlated and together create a bordered, territorial Internet, even without the imposition or the changes in the governance environment to make it so.The paper is a short 4 pages. Worth a read ....
Paul Rosenzweig is the founder of Red Branch Consulting PLLC, a homeland security consulting company and a Senior Advisor to The Chertoff Group. Mr. Rosenzweig formerly served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy in the Department of Homeland Security. He is a Professorial Lecturer in Law at George Washington University, a Senior Fellow in the Tech, Law & Security program at American University, and a Board Member of the Journal of National Security Law and Policy.