“In other words, there is no resilience in this particular material when it is at a temperature of 32 degrees. I believe that has some significance for our problem.” – Professor Richard Feynman commenting during the 1986 Challenger Commission hearings. The Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on horizontal […]
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Having a framework for a boat does not guarantee that it will float or sail well.
The above is a drawing of the framework of the 17th Century Swedish warship “Vasa”. The design of the bottom was too shallow and caused the ship to tip over when it tried to sail out of port. Lately governments have been issuing cybersecurity policy documents that are shallow in their depth of understanding of […]
Impressions of the U.S. National Cybersecurity Strategy of 2023
Was busy at a resilience workshop in Germany last week when the buzz started to peak about the release of the latest version of the U.S. National Cybersecurity Strategy[1]. As someone who headed task forces to prepare the first Military Defence Strategy (2000) and first National Defense System Cybersecurity Strategy (2009) of Lithuania and served […]
In seeking to protect industrial control systems are we clear about what is being threatened and from what threats?
Reading the recently published Industrial Control Systems Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) Advanced Analytical Laboratory (AAL) White Paper on Malware Trends left me somewhat unimpressed and disappointed. Whenever I read a document about cybersecurity, especially one written by an institution dealing with the security of industrial control systems, I am keen to see how the authors […]