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 [...]
Dissertation – Defended
January 17th, 2012 (posted by: sam) · 2 Comments
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Today’s Photo – January 16, 2012
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Today’s Photo – January 9, 2012
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Information theory and the need for deep thinking
January 8th, 2012 (posted by: sam) · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Information Assurance and Security · Rant
Today’s Photo – January 2, 2012
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Today’s Photo – December 27th, 2011
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Today’s Picture – December 26th, 2011
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Today’s Picture – December 24th, 2011
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Today’s Picture – December 23rd, 2011
December 23rd, 2011 (posted by: sam) · 2 Comments
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Out of the box thinking versus pliable biases
December 22nd, 2011 (posted by: sam) · No Comments
I recently was having a discussion with a noted scholar of conflict and I said “throwing history under the bus” meaning lets look at this thing as a new thing. My goal was to get out of the box of constructed knowledge and examine things freshly and challenge the assumptions. A problem had been created [...]
Tags: Cyber Warfare
3 pages of heuristics, some data sets, and one graph
December 22nd, 2011 (posted by: sam) · No Comments
Something I’m working on.
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Today’s Picture – December 22nd, 2011
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Identifying strategic traits and learning objectives
December 21st, 2011 (posted by: sam) · No Comments
I’ve been working a project identifying a comprehensive cyber curriculum. The various standard infosec curriculums are primarily for non-conflict oriented entities, and NIST/NICE is really a human resources hiring tool. One aspect of this tasking is looking at the idea of leadership “levels” and the second aspect is looking at the disconnect between info sec [...]
Tags: Academic Life · Cyber Warfare · Scholarship of teaching and learning
Today’s Picture – December 21st, 2011
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Today’s Picture – December 20th, 2011
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