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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Security Theater – Transit Police try to enhance the “perception” of security for SkyTrain riders.
I was thinking back to my last visit to Vancouver and contemplating an article I read in the Metro newspaper… an article on security that caught my eye.
It seems that the Transit Police are involved in Security Theater. I am not suggesting that they don‘t take security seriously, but I believe they are missing something very important. While cleaning up the transit stations and getting rid of the aggressive panhandlers, drug addicts, and garbage is a good thing (Vancouver Transit Police now carry arms), what about the systems that control the SkyTrain? How easy would it be to hack ...
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Monday, December 15, 2008
The Answer – One More Than You Have
I attended the West Coast Security Forum (WCSF) during the first week of December and I must share with you a major advancement in my understanding of layered defense strategies. I have attended many conferences and I am always looking for that nugget of truth that I can walk away with and apply to my work. Well, the WCSF did not let me down. From an anonymous voice in the crowd I heard that sage advice that we all seek. I asked the audience when using a layered defense strategy, how many layers of defense are enough? The first response ...
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Monday, December 15, 2008
Critical Infrastructure Protection and the Vancouver Olympics
Reportedly, security for the 2002 Salt Lake City games cost $1.3 billion, the 2004 Athens games were $1.5 billion, and the estimated cost for the 2012 London games is probably going over the $2 billion dollar mark. So, it shouldn’t be a surprise that security for the Vancouver Olympic games may approach or exceed $1 billion.
However, in all the above security budget increases, how much attention was or is being paid to keeping the lights on? What about keeping the oil and natural gas flowing? What about the water supply?
The common thread in these critical infrastructure issues are ...
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Monday, December 15, 2008
Who Turned Out the Lights? Applying Risk Management in the Age of Critical Infrastructure Protection – A Bottom-Up Approach
In today’s digitally connected world, there is little doubt that cyber threats against the industrial networks that operate our global critical infrastructures have grown more prevalent and sophisticated. This disturbing trend poses both a criminal and national security threat and has raised the need for governments, industry regulators and private sector organizations to search for ways to implement more effective cyber risk management strategies to protect the SCADA and Industrial Control Systems (ICS) that operate mission-critical infrastructures such as power, nuclear, oil and gas, water and sewage treatment.
Without an effective risk management strategy in place, operators of critical infrastructures ...
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Monday, December 15, 2008
Technical Difficulties Affect Us All
To Wurldtech Blog Readers:
Well, it seems our hosting provider’s web server died over the weekend (no we weren’t hacked) so we experienced some technical diffuculties. Unfortunately, all data posted from September 2008 to present day has been lost. Fortuntately, I have all our content backed-up on my computer. So, please excuse the fact that the following posts are stamped with today’s date as opposed to their original posting date.
If you posted a comment, please feel free to do so again.
Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your patience and support.
- Steve
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