The Cybersecurity Act of 2009: Trying to create order from chaos
The cyber arena is filled with the effluvia of vendor driven agendas and political wrangling for budgetary dollars. As a topic cyber security is especially vulnerable as the waning leadership and expertise is so centralized in so few individuals that consensus can be driven literally from people sitting in one room. Consider the recent testimony by Dr. Eugene Spafford to the Senate Commerce Committee on how few doctoral students graduate from the academic setting. The cyber security arena may be the one last place that a person with relatively little academic training can be a substantive contributor. Though that model has not served so well with over 40 years of computing and little to have moved us forward toward a secure environment.
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POSTED Saturday April 4th
