Running Out Of Cyber Gas
The Colonial Pipeline cyber “hostage” fiasco is the latest in an ever-escalating set of cyberspace problems for the new Biden Administration.
With a still forming team trying to navigate the complex Federal cyber bureaucracy - and a business sector not able to fulfill its claim of taking care of itself - this kind of event only increases the urgency of what is now becoming the definition of a managerial “wicked problem” - the people causing the problem are trying to solve the problem.
The players and vulnerabilities are all too familiar – even pointed out in the U.S.’s recent Annual Intelligence Threat Assessment. First, the attacks appear to be coming from Eastern Europe and/or Russia. So far, publicly, it seems like a very well organized, nearly corporate group of hackers who claim to be Robin Hoods hit Colonial – robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, they say. Nice public relations effort, but hardly comforting to the compan
The Satanic Mills of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Raised in a family of Manchester, UK natives, you naturally find attachment to things English. One favorite is the song “Jerusalem” based on the William Blake poem. It is a delightful tune, but with acid lyric comment on the First Industrial Revolution. Blake speaks “of the dark Satanic Mills” spreading across the formerly green lands of England. Blake was not a fan of the First Industrial Revolution.
His complaint did little good.
And England embraced those satanic mills and came to dominate that new world.
America stands today in the beginning stages of the cyber-driven Fourth Industrial Revolution (4R) - a time of universal access to information,