A Bad News Roundup — We Can’t Do Cybersecurity.  Period.

Are Nuclear Power Plants At Cyber Risk?

Late last week, the Washington Post had an article asking the question whether nuclear power plants are at risk of cyber attack. The article was keyed to a much lengthier, detailed report from the Nuclear Threat Initiative (a non-profit associated…
A Bad News Roundup — We Can’t Do Cybersecurity.  Period.

The Cybersecurity Act of 2015

We have white smoke. Finally, after 8 years of discussion Congress has passed a cybersecurity information sharing bill. The Cybersecurity Act of 2015 is Division N of the omnibus spending bill that will soon be enacted by Congress. Title I of that…
A Bad News Roundup — We Can’t Do Cybersecurity.  Period.

Converging Cyber and the Physical

Form should follow function. That’s a cardinal rule of architecture and also a cardinal rule of corporate organization. Anyone who saw the video earlier this year where hackers successfully took remote control of a Jeep Cherokee knows that, in the…