The world really needs to take security architecture more seriously! If physical buildings were anything like security systems (experiencing a major breach practically every month), the news would be full of collapsing buildings and crumbling bridges… Dan Blum (https://security-architect.com/working-together-to-create-the-future-of-security-architecture/)

If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. ~ Peter Drucker

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model which makes the existing model obsolete ~ Buckminster Fuller

Traditionally, when we think about security and protecting ourselves, we think in terms of armor or walls. Increasingly, I find myself looking to medicine and thinking about viruses, antibodies. Part of the reason why cybersecurity continues to be so hard is because the threat is not a bunch of tanks rolling at you but a whole bunch of systems that may be vulnerable to a worm getting in there. It means that we’ve got to think differently about our security, make different investments that may not be as sexy but may actually end up being as important as anything.

What I spend a lot of time worrying about are things like pandemics. You can’t build walls in order to prevent the next airborne lethal flu from landing on our shores. Instead, what we need to be able to do is set up systems to create public health systems in all parts of the world, click triggers that tell us when we see something emerging, and make sure we’ve got quick protocols and systems that allow us to make vaccines a lot smarter. So if you take a public health model, and you think about how we can deal with, you know, the problems of cybersecurity, a lot may end up being really helpful in thinking about the AI threats (President Obama, Oct. 2016)

..the story of passengers and crew revolting and trying to take control of the plane back from the terrorists. They came together in about 20 minutes, they came up with a plan, they voted on that plan, and took action. I would hope that message of cooperation would live on today. 15 years later it hard to see that message living on, but, you know  these were folks from all over world that came together and did something great. Gave the country something bright on a dark day ~ Tim Lambert (2016, Interview Heard on NPR’s Morning Edition)