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Theater Shaping With Allies and Partners:. Information Technology (IT) and Cyber Security. Herman Finley 19 March 2012. Agenda. IT and Asia-Pacific Key categories of IT Implications of IT trends Potential outcomes Dealing with those outcomes. Main Points.
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Theater Shaping With Allies and Partners: Information Technology (IT) and Cyber Security Herman Finley 19 March 2012
Agenda • IT and Asia-Pacific • Key categories of IT • Implications of IT trends • Potential outcomes • Dealing with those outcomes
Main Points • IT is the foundation of future well-being • IT integrates, cross-cuts and enhances other technologies • Cyber-security is foundation for use of IT • In dealing with Allies and Partners, IT is all about connection, collaboration and context
What Does IT Do For Us?E+C=E • Educate: creates awareness and understanding • Connect: creates shared awareness and potential for collective action • Empower: enables collective action and paradigm shifts
Big Bags of Toys WWW Wireless Cloud Big Data Social Media “Manchine” Cyber Operations Knowledge Display Smart Manufacture
Internet Usage in Asia Data Derived from Internetworldstats.com at http://www.internetworldstats.com/top25.htm
Asia’s IT Landscape • Whole-of-society leaders • US, Korea, Japan, Australia, Singapore • Bi-level societies • PRC, India, Indonesia • Emerging players • Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Philippines • Marginal adopters • Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Bangladesh
Implications of Trends • More • Faster • Denser • Agile • Integrated • Mass customization
Functional Implications • Economic • Military • Social • Political
Good StuffPositive Outcomes • Massive increase in ability to collect, manipulate/build and propagate knowledge • Deep and wide connectedness • Enhanced productivity • Major industry and entrepreneurial levels • Wider availability for educational programs: “Cell Phone University” • Increased agility of knowledge
Dark SideNegative Outcomes • Political Instability • “Know-Do” Gap • Cyber Activities • Cyber psychosis • Cyber pollution • Cyber attacks • Cyber crime End of Secrecy End of Peace
Cyber Crime is Big...$388Billion • Bigger than…the global black market in marijuana, cocaine and heroin combined ($288bn) and approaching the value of all global drug trafficking ($411bn • 431million adults in 24 countries experienced cybercrime in the last year • More than a million became victims every day Norton Cybercrime Report 2011 http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/home_homeoffice/html/cybercrimereport/
Cyber Attacks “Stuxnet is the new face of 21st-century warfare: invisible, anonymous, and devastating. “ Vanity Fair , March, 2011 on-line edition www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/04/stuxnet-201104 “…the United States reserves the right, under the laws of armed conflict, to respond to serious cyber attacks with a proportional and justified military response at the time and place of our choosing” William Lynn, former US Deputy Secretary of Defense
Where Can You Help? Cyber Security SCADA Platform Agnostic Applications Disaster Management Client Sensitive Technology Technology Education Sensor to Decision Maker Sense Making Knowledge Management
Main Points • IT is the foundation of future well-being • IT integrates, cross-cuts and enhances other technologies • Cyber-security is foundation for use of IT • In dealing with Allies and Partners, IT is all about connection, collaboration and context
Theater Shaping With Allies and Partners: Information Technology (IT) and Cyber Security Herman Finley 19 March 2012