Selil

I’ve been a federal government employe for almost exactly 11 months. In that period of time I have been through shutdown scares, notified about the possible cessation of my program three times by senior leaders, and all of this while being a title 10 employee (at will not civil service). Just to be sure the [...]

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I make a lot of money talking about cyber security and cyber warfare so I most assuredly have a dog in the hunt over whether cyber warfare is a real or a made up threat. I try and be honest about my biases so a reader can make a decision early on whether my argument [...]

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Waging cyber warfare is seen as a technology problem by technologists, a policy problem by politicians, and a profit problem by businesses. This confluence of concerns is likely due to the prevalent nature of technology in our daily lives. The media hype of “war” and over the top language describing even small events has not [...]

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Higher education exists to terrorize and bankrupt students with tuition costs (double, triple, insert value here) the rate of inflation. It is a current meme in public policy and though higher education has its issues this is a crock and there are a couple of reasons why.

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I have successfully defended my dissertation for a PhD from Purdue University. The title of the dissertation is “Cyber warfare as a form of conflict: Evaluation of models of cyber conflict as a prototype to conceptual analysis”, and my advisor was Dr. Marcus Rogers. Lots of significant people helped me get this far, and lots [...]

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On my two hour run today I was thinking about information security and the research vectors that I see within the discipline. I don’t publish very much so I have little effect on the space. I was thinking about how the discipline hasn’t moved forward and more importantly how it seems to be stagnant within [...]

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