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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.

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.

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From Cyber Jihad to Human and Computer Viruses - It has been a busy week

Napolitano is making a great leap of faith that we are at that point in the Cyber Security maturation cycle and this leap is much like Evel Knievel’s jump across the Snake River.

The amount of labor and effort to run this operational task has worn thin. No longer am I interested in dealing with tape for anything but keeping my bumper on the old car with duck tape. Other than that, tapes and cartridges need to go the way of the floppy disk. Time to take them out back and shoot them!

This is the first part of my podcast interview with Edward Schwartz, CSO of NetWitness. In this installment, Mr. Schwartz comments on regulatory compliance as a driver for security spending. He shines a light on how myopic focus on complaince can be dangerous to the organization.

SecurityBinge – a team composed of Chris Martin aka pr34ch, Tim Elrod aka ri0t, and Stefan Morris aka Janus – are forging a video podcast show addressing information security from the hackers’ perspective. SecurityBinge, according to its founders, “will have a community-driven focus in the delivery of its high quality video productions.”

According to Sun Tzu, the Tao is the Way – the context that defines how actions are perceived and valued. In a business context, corporate values and culture define the Tao. The success of any strategy depends on how it is supported by the Tao.