The future of warfare is being debated in Washington next week.

Next week is ‘Cyber Week.’  Washington is debating four cyber security bills.  Lots of noise.  Lots of discussion.  Lots of differences.

Cyber warfare, or asymmetric warfare, is the future of warfare.  The worse case scenario is that a lone hacker of state agent would use the web to gain control of a industrial control system (ICS) of a nuke plant, water facility, or chemical plant.  It’s real.  it’s doable.

The argument comes down to public safety versus government intrusion of privacy rights.   You’d think the Republicans would advocate for the former and the Democrats for the latter.

Well, it’s reversed.  The Republicans are fighting to protect personal and corporate rights.   The Democrats are worried about a Fukushima.  Go figure.

Full Disclosure: Our firm, Quality + Engineering, does Critical Infrastructure Protection: Forensics, Assurance, Analytics.

Bio:

Greg Hutchins PE and CERM (503.233.101 & GregH@QualityPlusEngineering.com)  is the founder of:

CERMAcademy.com
800Compete.com
QualityPlusEngineering.com
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He is the evangelist behind Future of Quality: Risk®.  He is currently working on the Future of Work and machine learning projects.

He is a frequent speaker and expert on Supply Chain Risk Management and cyber security.  His current books available on all platform are shown below: