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Category Archives: Contingency Planning
Balancing Safety and Security at Fukushima
April 11, 2011 – 6:00 am
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When diverse systems are integrated, systems engineers must often trade off security against safety, and vice versa. As an illustration, consider automated building-access systems. Safety engineers generally prefer building-access systems to fail open so that anyone trapped in a burning building,…
Supply Chains at Risk
April 4, 2011 – 6:00 am
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As I am writing this, a devastated Japanese nation is still struggling to recoup from the triple-whammy of earthquake, tsunami, and potential nuclear power plant meltdown. We need to wait until we know more of the facts before examining whether contingency planning was as good as it might have…
Are Electric Cars Secure?
November 29, 2010 – 6:00 am
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That might appear to be a strange question. After all, when it comes to automobiles, the focus is mostly on safety, although articles have appeared describing how the computer networks and systems built into modern automobiles can readily be hacked and the hacker can take control of various…
Y2K – Event, Nonevent? – Which Was It?
November 15, 2010 – 6:00 am
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The largely successful remediation of the Y2K “bug” arguably led to the worst of outcomes for the credibility of cybersecurity risk. Many believe that Y2K was all a hoax perpetrated by software consultants and vendors in order to generate income, which it certainly did. Others, who had a…
Simplicity or Complexity – Which is More Secure?
August 16, 2010 – 6:00 am
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On May 19, 2010, Dr. Patricia Muoio of the ODNI (Office of the Director of National Intelligence) gave a thought-provoking presentation at a symposium hosted by NITRD (Networking and Information Research and Development), which is the name of a program that “… provides a framework in which…