By Bob Gourley The inaugural Intelligence and National Security Summit will occur September 18-19 2014 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington DC. Two of the most highly regarded professional organizations in the national security ecosystem have combined to facilitate this event: the Armed Forces C...
By Bob Gourley The Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) is a virtuous firm I have personally volunteered with for almost a decade. I believe in the value they add to the discourse on matters of national security importance and also in cyber security issues. The cyber council of INSA is...
By Bob Gourley The Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) has released a white paper documenting the vision and approach for enhancing enterprise information technology in support of intelligence and national security missions. This paper, titled ”Doing in Common What Is Commonly...
By BobGourley Friends and professional associates at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) have published a white paper which should be of high interest to anyone in the intelligence community or in policy-making positions in the national security community. The paper, titled Expect...
via Computerworld Last week, a “premier intelligence and national security organization” was hacked and then hundreds of intelligence officials, ranging from the NSA, FBI, CIA, the Pentagon, the White House, had their names, email addresses, some phone numbers and even home addresses pos...
via PC Mag It’s hardly news that the US and the west in general has a problem with hacking attacks from abroad. The warnings about these attacks and suggestions for action to address them are increasingly making the case to trade off privacy and freedom. Will we put up with this? Do we have an...
via Networkworld There is an urgent need for businesses and our government to develop high-level cyber-intelligence as a way to combat the unacceptable levels of online security threats because the current “patch and pray” system won’t cut it in the future. That was the major thr...