That was my First Experience with computers. Since then, with the centrality of computers to my life but all of our lives is almost impossible to fathom. For example, we live in a world where every year over 40 trillion emails are said to. The first read page was made 1991 now there are 30 trillion individual web pages it is no longer about compiling and sharing information but also to have an impact on the world beyond the online domain through the internet to of things. Cisco systems estimates of the next five years there will be more than 40 million internet enabled devices coming on line for refrigerators, cars, the thermostats google just paid a couple billion dollars for a thermostat business all linking together. So that means domains that range from communication, carvers, the infrastructure or conflict 90 percent of military communications run over civilian owned operated internet these are increasingly cyberdepended that we live in the digital age. These networks they are lin
Hopefully the technology will work for us and we havent been hacked in the interim. Here we go. To move on why a book about cybersecurity and cyberwar and why now . For me, its best encapsulated by two quotes. The first is from president obama. He declared that cybersecurity risks posed quote a most serious economic and National Security challenges of the 21st century the second quote is from a former cia director who said quote rarely has something been so important and so talked about with less and less clarity and less apparent understanding. So that cross between something that is in front of me and important but less and less understanding again you can see it in all sorts of different ways and all sorts of different fields. For example 70 of business executives, and not 70 of cto circe s. Oz but executives in general have made some kind of cybersecurity decision for their Company Despite the fact that no Major Business Management Program teaches it as part of the normal responsib
From the Stevens Institute of technology in hoboken new jersey, this is an hour. [applause] thank you. I want to thank the deans of stevens to helping to host this and to john in particular for both organizing it and the kind introduction. So i am old enough that i remember the very first time i ever saw and then used a computer. My dad took me to a Science Center in North Carolina at the age of seven where he learned how to program this amazing device to design a smiley face out of a series of letter ms and then i printed out on one of those oldschool principles with the perforated paper on the side that was my First Experience with computers. Since then the centrality of computers to my life but all our lives is its almost impossible without them. For example we live in a world where every year over 40 trillion emails are sent. The first webpage was made in 1991. There is now more than 30 trillion individual webpages out there. Moreover, the internet is no longer about compiling and
His pistol and a russian Cruise Missile missile. These are all one in the same because they involve the technology and the chemistry of gunpowder, right quest of course not, we would never do that but somehow its accessible in this space. Or take the organizations for example i had a senior u. S. Military official argue with me that and al qaeda were the same thing. Wherever you stand on anonymous and i have a good outfit i am more pathetic towards them than anyone in the d. C. s security establishment but the bottom line is wherever you stand on than they differ from al qaeda in everything from their organization, their personnel, their profile, there means, their ends, pretty much the only thing they share is they are doctors that begin with the letter a. These gaps in understanding the disconnect of policy reality intact knowledge he mean that we are not only seeing growing tension. Its one of the things that is feeding into the u. S. China relationship but it also means we are bein
In texas, and its a long and tangled tale. You can read about it in the book. But its really astonishing that schreiber, the former Surgeon General of the third reich, was living in texas. But as i said, the cold war was heating up, and this was the threat. The threat was that the soviets, who, bill the way, had their own program of german scientist, they got a lot of rocket scientists, but unlike our program, we sort of put the german scientists on pedestals. Pedestals and treated them with great regard and made them the top dogs of our program. The soviets loathed the germans. There was deep animosity from the war, and so their german rocket scientists were kept at a second tier and they were actually squeezed of the information, and sent back to germany by the russians, at which point the cia stepped in, grabbed up all those german scientists to learn what they could about the soviet missile program, but what they learned was nothing, because the soviets didnt share with the gem ger