http://www.hlswatch.com/2009/12/04/isa-issues-report-incentivize-dont-regulate/ News and analysis of critical issues in homeland security today. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:26:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.hlswatch.com/2009/12/04/isa-issues-report-incentivize-dont-regulate/comment-page-1/#comment-137495 William R. Cumming Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:03:58 +0000 http://www.hlswatch.com/?p=7566#comment-137495 Post script: I rate cyber security just below WMD attacks as the preminent challenge to US national security. Running down AQ and the Taliban in AF-PAK Theatre is only important as they relate to these issues and subjects! IMO of course. Discussion? Post script: I rate cyber security just below WMD attacks as the preminent challenge to US national security. Running down AQ and the Taliban in AF-PAK Theatre is only important as they relate to these issues and subjects! IMO of course. Discussion?

]]> http://www.hlswatch.com/2009/12/04/isa-issues-report-incentivize-dont-regulate/comment-page-1/#comment-137493 William R. Cumming Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:26:48 +0000 http://www.hlswatch.com/?p=7566#comment-137493 Recognition of the "public commons" will always require the best and brightest to lead! Protecting and regulation of the commons requires the same. Unfortunately, here it looks like socialization of the costs, and privatization of all the benefits, is the goal. Hoping I am wrong as always. Still the report does provide a useful basis for discussion and yes, unless there is established a statutory merger of Cyber Security and Computer Security efforts (CIP and OMB-A-130 efforts) looking like limited federal role for good but a lot for bad. Betting by fall of 2017 the then two decades old identification of cyber security as rivaling or of even more important than physical security model will have been well established by catastrophic cyber and computer security real-world events! I really wonder if WMD will become Weapons of Mass Disruption? Time will tell! Recognition of the “public commons” will always require the best and brightest to lead! Protecting and regulation of the commons requires the same. Unfortunately, here it looks like socialization of the costs, and privatization of all the benefits, is the goal. Hoping I am wrong as always. Still the report does provide a useful basis for discussion and yes, unless there is established a statutory merger of Cyber Security and Computer Security efforts (CIP and OMB-A-130 efforts) looking like limited federal role for good but a lot for bad. Betting by fall of 2017 the then two decades old identification of cyber security as rivaling or of even more important than physical security model will have been well established by catastrophic cyber and computer security real-world events! I really wonder if WMD will become Weapons of Mass Disruption? Time will tell!

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