Implied Trust … in Supply Chain Security – Part Two
Last month, my column “Implied Trust, Presumed Secure and Other Dangers of Supply Chain” covered supply chain security in the context of the network breach of a contractor for the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) by Chinese hackers. Much to the US Navy’s chagrin, while the pilfered 614 gigabytes of US Navy data was unclassified, when aggregated it could...
Implied Trust, Presumed Secure and Other Dangers of Supply Chain
The US Navy’s Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) bills itself as a “full-spectrum research, development, test and evaluation, engineering and fleet support center for submarines and autonomous underwater systems”. Clearly, its assets would be attractive to malicious actors and rock-solid security processes, especially in the supply chain would be assured without exception. Not so, as recently revealed when a...
Today’s skilled worker shortage and the 90’s technology “Brain Drain”: What can we learn from Nortel?
Canada, one of the most educated populations in the world, is yet again experiencing a skills shortage spanning junior developers to specialized cybersecurity practitioners and senior executives. According to employee surveys, the problem has been compounded by employers not providing adequate training, and externally academia struggles to educate students due to high competition from industry for qualified instructors in...
Risky Business: Wading through security and risk-reduction standards
If you are a CISO, DISO or security practitioner, you’ve likely been drawn into the beleaguered topic of security and risk-reduction standards. You probably also know that a sure fire way to single out the security wonks at your next meeting, conference or cocktail reception, is to simply muse aloud: “I wonder which standard is most effective in reducing...
Artificial Intelligence: Public Safety, Privacy and Ethics
Its safe to say, artificial intelligence (AI) is not a trend. Beyond robot-dogs slipping on banana peels, the innovative capabilities AI will bring to business, government and the sciences will be transformative. Only imagined in science fiction, AI is poised to challenge and blur our concepts of computing and the ‘natural’ human. This will require governments and sectors to...
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