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one day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, “Information”; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it. – Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
Oreskes said the skeptics similarly attacked the science around acid rain, the ozone hole, secondhand cigarette smoke, global warming and the pesticide DDT.“In every case, they denied the severity of the problem and said the science was uncertain,” Oreskes said. “It was always the same argument. They always used the tobacco strategy and said it would be wrong for the government to interfere with the marketplace. It was all about using this play from the tobacco playbook.”
via Environmental Journal: Debunking climate debunkers Environmental Journal projo.com The Providence Journal.
Some examples are below, I know you can think of a lot more that keep you up at night. What steps does your backup operator take to perform a restore? Where are the backups stored and how often are the audited for accuracy?How often are your security programs monitored?What is the procedure for a DoS? Virus infection? Disgruntled employee?Who on your legal team would you call? Do they know you?Is your incident response team call sheet up to date?
via Disasters take practice.
NdT: You learn, and they test you, and you need a high score on the test, and the teacher only likes the kids who get the high score and the kids who are quiet while they're teaching, because they're the well-behaved ones. What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that. Give me somebody who sees — now this could get dangerous, right? Somebody who sees a wall outlet and wants to stick a wire into it to find out what happens. So you don't want kids dying from their experiments, so yes, there's a certain oversight as a parent you have to exercise. But any sensible parent would know what those limits are. I would claim that those limits are much higher than what are normally granted the behavior of chidren.
via Neil deGrasse Tyson On Literacy, Curiosity, Education, And Being ‘In Your Face’ – Monkey See Blog : NPR.
My fear is that the average viewer will come away from this program convinced that the scenario is real after all, why would CNN show something that is not real? and that only the government can help lead us into a world of peaceful coexistence in cyberspace. As most hopefully all of our readers know, cyberspace is very complex and security comes not from just the private sector or just the government but jointly, with each party playing a very important role.
via Cyber Shockwave.
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