LEW MCCREARY
In the immediate aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks, Darwin magazine, of which I was then the editor, ran an article that proposed technology as a way of "connecting the dots", a phrase now freighted with very specific 9/11 meanings.
Getting a bit ahead of myself, I'd like to talk about an article that CSO won't be publishing until next month.
The "Software Book Index" Index
In not a single software development book that has crossed my desk during the past six months does the word security appear in the index.
Security is now at the heart of what our society cares about and thinks about, sometimes obsessively, whether or not it wants to.
It falls to CSOs to vet their enterprises' relationships to make sure they add value rather than liability to the business mix
Microsoft, taking a page from the antiterror handbook, announced last month that it would offer serious dollars to anyone willing to drop a dime on the architects of those nettlesome exploits, Blaster and Sobig, as well as others yet unnamed.
No sooner do we run an interview with Major League Baseball CSO Kevin Hallinan than an on-field-and-bullpen melee breaks out at Boston's historic Fenway Park during the American League Championship Series (ALCS).
Assorted tales from the September news files got me thinking about the reflex to fling gobs of money at a problem.
DARPA's Terrorism Futures Market: Shark Attack
The idea of wagering for profit on forms of human tragedy, being tailor-made for self-righteous umbrage, whipped politicians into rhetorical frenzies.
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