My kids' Dad: Preparing a presentation

The last week has been a crush of work and related activity.

I just finished preparations for an ISSA presentation date that was just moved up a month. I will let you know how it goes tomorrow. Below is the teaser:

Feel like our world is too complex and spinning out of control? Just as economic changes outpace our legal system in economic globalization, technology outpaces security in the virtual world. Globalization has led to conflict between 'core' states which embrace connectivity and 'gap' states which reject it. Electronic connectivity brings a flood of content flows (including ideas, culture and debate) escalating this conflict. In the virtual universe we also have our 'core' and 'gap' entities which are 'Net Ready' or open to disaster. These forces bring discipline, services architectures and privacy mandates. E-commerce requirements continue to invalidate the value of perimeter security and increase value of defense in depth and replacement architectures such as boundaryless information flow.

The core premise is based on the highly influential work of Thomas P.M.
Barnett where awareness of Y2K problems led to preemptive efforts while the World Trade Center attacks led to reactive strikes. So, too, we can choose to take a preemptive or reactive stance toward cyber threats as organizations and as a system. Armed with this knowledge we can seek solutions that address these concerns.

Join us for: Are We Ripe for a Cyber 9-11 Attack? Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Globalization.

Stuart Berman is a security architect at a local large global corporation.
He specializes in Internet and firewall architecture, has been a network engineer for over 10 years, was a Master CNE when people used to talk about Novell and regularly corresponds with Thomas Barnett and his associates. For additional information on Thomas Barnett visit his blog or website at: http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/

I have also worked on an article that should appear in one of the trades next month - keeping my fingers crossed.

Afterword -

The presentation went well. It took about an hour to present, followed by a lively 45 minutes of discussion and another 45 minutes of additional questions in one-on-one form. Presentation definitely needs more polish and refinement, especially technical details regarding information security solutions. Architectural concepts also not coming through as clearly as I would like.

Just posted the PowerPoint presentation at: http://project.bermans.name/Cyber911.ppt