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Category Archives: Contingency Planning
Vindication of Independent Verification & Validation
March 4, 2013 – 6:00 am
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There are so many software-intensive system failures and compromises being reported these days that one has to wonder whether the testers were “out to lunch” when they should have been concentrating on making sure that the systems for which they were responsible needed testing. In my recent…
Mandiant Discovers the Tragedy of the Commons
February 26, 2013 – 6:00 am
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Mandiant has deservedly achieved a high level of credibility as one of the top cyberattack forensics companies, as described in the February 11 – February 18, 2013 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek in the article “Hacked? Who Ya Gonna Call? They are the go-to company when it comes to determining…
TEOTWAWKI and the Real Y2K Story
February 11, 2013 – 6:00 am
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Whether or not you believed that the end-of-the-world was going to happen on December 21 or December 24, 2012 due to the Mayan calendar ending on one of those days, it is clear now that anticipated catastrophic events did not come to pass. Some commentators suggested that the dire warnings were…
LIPA-suction – Resiliency vs. Security
January 7, 2013 – 6:00 am
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Superstorm Sandy, which hit the Northeast coast of the U.S. on October 30, 2012, caused unprecedented damage on the New Jersey shore, lower Manhattan, Staten Island, Long Island, and other coastal areas, Many of us were without electrical power for well over a week, some for several weeks. On…
Fail Safe, Fail Secure
December 10, 2012 – 6:00 am
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There is a particularly harrowing article about the catastrophic train crash that occurred when two high-speed trains collided in Wenzhou, China on July 23, 2011. Evan Osnos’s article “Letter from China: Boss Rail – The disaster that exposed the underside of the boom,” which appeared in…
