LEW MCCREARY
Left to the unaided devices of the regulation makers, chaos and arbitrariness will take hold. The world will, ironically, be made less secure.
I'm in an Armored State of Mind
In my role as editor of this magazine, I was interviewed by Al and Stacy a couple of weeks ago. Al and Stacy host a morning drive-time talk radio show in Charlotte, N.C.
Dennis Treece and Massport: Safe Harbor
From Boston's Logan Airport to the city's waterfront shipping facilities, CSO Dennis Treece patrols an anxious perimeter.
Risk Assessment: Imagining Godzilla
Only by imagining the worst that could happen can we comfortably hope for the best.
Listening to Dennis Treece, the newly installed CSO of the Massachusetts Port Authority, go on at some length about the wide assortment of threats a port can face, it occurs to me that there are certain likenesses between novel writing (my off-hours hobby, as it happens) and security (my area of professional interest).
Brian Arthur: Security and the Information Revolution
In August, CSO's sister publication, CIO, held a conference in Colorado Springs. One of the speakers was Stanford University economist Brian Arthur, who spent an exceptionally lucid hour debunking management guru Peter Drucker's assertion that the information revolution has come to an end.
Dog Days: The Security Profession Grows Up
Since Sept. 11, 2001, security has become something of a frisky new puppy, gamboling in the worldwide limelight and garnering a lot of well-meaning attention (though perhaps not quite enough puppy chow, to judge from the ailing about underfunded mandates in both the public and private sectors).
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Protecting PII: How to Work with IT to Manage Risk
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