[iwar] Historical posting


From: Fred Cohen
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Date: Mon, Jan 1, 1999
From: Fred Cohen 
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Subject: [iwar] Historical posting

          


             Greetings,



It would appear I have forgotten my manners.  I have not introduced myself to

the group.  Sorry.



I am Ross Leo.  I have been working in Information Security for nearly 20 years

for folks like IBM, NASA, Rockwell International, and smaller concerns.  I am a

CISSP and a CBCP.  I find the subject of Information Warfare to be a fascinating

topic for discussion and speculation - because it is simply interesting, and

because it provides me ideas on how to improve my risk management and

information protection programs for my client companies.  Unlike the rest of

you, I am opinionated (you will permit a small joke in this forum, yes?), and

may on occasion offer one or two.



Though I have worked for the government in a number of positions, I am in

commercial enterprise these days.  Thus my focus is on a pragmatic approach to

effective security from the perspective of identifying risks, threats,

exposures, etc. and managing those.  Since the very nature of risk is fluid and

ever-changing, I find I must stay up on current issues such as IWAR.  After all,

all those former KGB (and other such from elsewhere) operatives need to earn a

living, not to mention that those same countries are technologically and

financially behind and seek to improve their lot rapidly.



A final word on me - I am not of the paranoid variety.  I see IWAR, in part,  as

a natural outgrowth of international corporate competition and governments

getting involved in them to protect and strengthen their nation's economies.  I

also see it as a method for waging war that replaces bullets and bombs, but is

(or can be) no less devastating.



Thanks for letting me join in.