Stephen Northcutt, on "Web Cover and Concealment"
Glen Sharlun
20+ years of Leading Public Sector Sales Transformation and Global Sales Expansion.
Stephen Northcutt's: "Web Cover and Concealment"
Had sent out a concept to a few close friends and mentors in our industry, to check myself and my thinking. Over the years, have learned to validate digital security concepts against what I have applied in the physical realm, or read about being applied, over the centuries.
This "Web Cover and Concealment" concept sorta came about the other way. Was thinking about this timeless principle,...,then realized that it could be a way of describing what I am doing now.
This definition from a Marine Corps Warfighting Publication is what ignited the mental fire, combined with the number of veterans (most currently in CENTCOM's AOR) I have been talking to while enabling their free OPM breach, accounts. This was the way to easily describe, in their context, why it is important that they protect themselves, and family, digitally. (My wife received her breach notification last month, I received mine TODAY!! We have been using Silo as the only way we touch our financials, healthcare and PII information, since before I joined the company.)
Cover is protection from the fire of hostile weapons.
Concealment is protection from observation,..., but not from hostile fire.
-MCWP 3-11.1 4.1 So in the military/LEA (hell, any 'active shooter' scenario), the conversation almost always starts with 'immediately seek Cover and Concealment', when dealing with a hostile enemy.
A few other of the responses from those friends/mentors build on this and went further to make the case that, that big electronics company in Cupertino, CA, or the big military organizations HQ'd in Tampa, Fl, or the big bank HQ'd in Charlotte, NC,..., all have the same need for digital Cover and Concealment, to protect their organization and it's intentions.
Anyway, thank you Stephen for being a friend and mentor for all these years, and for liking this analogy enough to kick the door open with it in your LinkedIn Article.
Stephen Northcutt's: "Web Cover and Concealment"
Godspeed and Semper Fidelis,
Glen
www.authentic8.com
Principal Security Architect @ Fannie Mae
9 年Apologies, I was still commenting on your post and LinkedIn decided to publish it before I was done :) Great work Glen. I read Stephen's post yesterday. We need people who can think different within the infosec community. We have been having issues of everyone following the same path or modified versions that still aren't that unique. In my humble opinion, every org and individuals behind it requires cover and concealment with the rate at which state sponsored activities are occurring/happening these days.
Principal Security Architect @ Fannie Mae
9 年I read Stepge