How do you overcome this:
Remarks by Melissa E. Hathaway
Acting Senior Director for Cyberspace
for the National Security and Homeland Security Councils
I assembled a team of experienced government cyber experts and in our first week we inventoried
relevant presidential policy directives, executive orders, national strategies and studies from
government advisory boards and private sector entities. We identified over 250 needs, tasks, and
recommendations.
A few hours south of here, there are creative Hollywood writers and actors who have imagined and
produced stories that capture the essence of the problem, including: Matthew Broderick in War Games, Robert Redford in Sneakers, Sandra Bullock in The Net, and Bruce Willis in Live Free and Die Hard.
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Apparently there is a pervasive deep fog of cyber war at the highest level of policy making government. And while they can't distill the problem down to a few orthogonal vectors of IT science, we should rest at ease because Hollywood has shown them the way.
The answer is to create industry wide standards for trusted computing and then to supply off the shelf technology that meets these standards. Wave figured that much out many years ago after the failure of their proprietary security chip. Wave has done a superb job of industrial selling to get those standards accepted and to place themselves in the nexus of the solution.
The next step is for the TCG membership en mass sell these industry wide standard to apparent nimrods like Melissa. That step is currently underway and slowly but perceptiblly making headway.