AT&T Has Spent Less on Network Construction Every Quarter Since the iPhone’s Launch
This elaborates on why I dropped these fools; even if it cost me some money. It’s great to be liberated from ATT.
Few people would dispute the huge challenge facing the newly formed Cyber Command. Perhaps the greatest of these challenges is in the area of coordination and collaboration. The addition of collaboration and coordination was evident in an organization chart for Cyber Command (marked FOUO) that has been circulating around by regular email (go figure) for a few of weeks now.
The heart of the organization is the Joint Operations Center/Integrated Cyber Center. While details at this level are sparse, it is very easy to mentally visualize this combined nerve center in operations.
Before anyone asks – NO – I won’t publish the chart or send it to anyone.
Anyone who has seen the chart realizes the massive challenge of coordination and collaboration that will be required. Given the magnitude of interaction as illustrated in the organizational chart, one has to wonder about the possibility of delays in decision making and response caused by this organizational design.
At a briefing outside of Washington, I heard an interesting comment about this topic. The comment went something like “Due to the unique characteristics of cyber warfare, what took years now must be done in months, what took months now must be done in days, what took days now must be done in hours and what took hours now must be done in minutes.”
To put this in context the Minute Man III ICBM has a range of over 8,000 miles and travels at 15,000 miles an hour. A cyber weapons has unlimited range and travels at nearly light speed at 186,000 miles per second.
One can clearly see the need for streamlined decision making.
As everyone knows C4ISR stands for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance. It appears the time has come to add collaboration and coordination to C4ISR and update it to C6ISR. If that happens, we must make every effort to streamline the decision making and authorization process to ensure decisiveness measured in minutes.
[From Collaborative Cyber Command]
Cyberoam, a provider of Unified Threat Management solutions and appliances, has released Cyberoam iView, a logging and reporting program that monitors networks to detect security related events, as open source [From An eye on network security]
2009 marks 60 years since the advent of modern cryptography. It was back in October 1949 when mathematician Claude Shannon published a paper on Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems. According to his employer at the time, Bell Labs, the work transformed cryptography from an art to a science and is generally considered the foundation of modern cryptography. Since then significant developments in secure communications have continued, particularly with the advent of the Internet and Web. CIO has a pictorial representation of the past six decades of research and development in encryption technology. Highlights include the design of the first quantum cryptography protocol by Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard in 1984, and the EFF’s ‘Deep Crack’ DES code breaker of 1998.
Social-networking sites short on security [From Brief: Social-networking sites short on security]
