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There are many more metrics we could cover that describe the state of current agency efforts to security the nation’s critical infrastructure but I believe this is enough to demonstrate the current maturity of the efforts.

The new cyber commands within the US military will need to establish mercenary programs with private industry, virtual cyber forces that perform offensive actions against entities hostile to the US Government and critical infrastructures.

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Government agencies need to examine the relationships they have and come to a realization that they just may need new blood not cut from the same mold of the beltway bandits. It is time for experienced security leadership to take hold.

There has always been a concern about jurors improperly communicating information about their cases. It has been the standard practice in trial courts for judges to admonish jurors about making any communications concerning the case until after the trial is completed. Unfortunately, ready access to cell phones, particularly smart phones, is rapidly undermining this fundamental precept of our judicial system. Jurors are using their phones to communicate information about the case to friends, family, and other third parties. They are also using Web access on their phones to improperly research matters relating to the trial (e.g., Googling the parties, researching alternate theories, etc.). All of these actions are strictly forbidden by the courts.

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Compliance, Privacy, IT and Security will need to determine the impact to their controls (or lack thereof) creating a punch list of countermeasures and finding out why the ones they have deployed are not working – and what the impact is to your regulatory, statutory and standards-based compliance programs;

Language is arguably the most powerful creation of the human species, the most successful mechanism to encode and transmit information across geographical, cultural and temporal boundaries. The humankind’s ability to create and use a system of symbols has been subject of the study, commentary and vivid debate for centuries.

This blog post is about language. What is the language of information security and how do we use it? How do infosec professionals talk their walk?

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By Chris McClean