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June 26, 2009
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Alexander: Break
Cyber Stovepipes!
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Yesterday, we were on hand as NSA Director Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander addressed 670 people at the Capital Hilton for AFCEA DC’s first Cyber Security Symposium, just two days after Def Sec Robert Gates recommended him to head the nation’s first cyber command. Keith’s message: “We’re the nation that created the Internet, so we should be the first to secure it.”
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Now the question is how, not easy considering the military gets about 32,000 suspected cyber attacks a day from over 100 countries. Keith says the command will try to break the existing cyber security stovepipes with a more agile staff overlooking the military’s networks and supporting DHS, which oversees the federal government and civilian networks. He also says NSA will rely heavy on industry, who own, operate and control most of the network infrastructure.
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Keith says a major priority is finding the right mix for civil liberties, privacy, and security. “It’s our main focus that these things co-exist. We don’t have to give up one for the other, and President Obama really gets that. I think with his transparency push we’ll be able to do that, even though it will take a lot of work.”
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An esteemed panel: Moderator Lt. Gen. Harry Raduege (Ret.), who is Chairman of Deloitte’s Center for Network Innovation and Co-Chair of the CSIS Commission on Cyber security for the 44th Presidency, Army Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Greg Schumacher, Acting Air Force Vice Commander Maj. Gen. David Sentry, Director of Computer Network Operations Naval Network Warfare Command RDML Sean Filipowski and Division Chief of the Marine Corps Information Assurance Division Ray Letteer. Everyone’s title was so long we don’t have room for a caption, although we have to fit in this gem from Harry (who is one of the few people who can say stuff like this): “With 11 grand kids and a 12th on the way, we’re about 50 years from 75 percent of the country having some of Keith Alexander’s DNA.”
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| Yesterday's Digital Media Confab |
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Online video, mobile music, social media, Web-based advertising: It was easy to feel young and hip, but also unsettled about the future, at Potomac Tech Wire’s 6th annual Digital Media Conference yesterday at the Tysons Ritz Carlton. At least the recession has sparked interest; with adjusted topics like “Investing in a Down Market,” the conference’s 500 person attendance held up impressively against levels in recent go-go years.
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M/C Venture Partners’ Sal Tirabassi, left, seemed to speak for others on the investment panel in saying they are focused on more mature firms that have shown tangible success making money rather than business plans that seem logical and exciting but aren’t proven. Grotech Ventures’ Don Rainey, center, said they’re still seeing thousands of plans a year but much less inclined toward anything speculative, especially when entrepreneurs predict revenues originating from advertising. And showing he is not captured easily by any passing fad, he got his biggest laugh in calling the iPhone a bad phone on a bad system that drops calls, saying “Heaven forbid if you have an iPhone and are talking to someone else who has one.”
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A distinguished panel of Current TV President Paul Levine, Alloy Media & Marketing VP Lin Dai, blip.tv COO Dina Kaplan, PBS VP Jason Seiken and moderator Adam Powers of Macrovision. Jason says televisions stations are getting nervous – the same way newspapers did 10 years ago – as the Internet has gotten better at delivering long-form video content. Paul’s tried to leverage that with Current TV, partnering with movie review site Rotten Tomatoes for an honest movie review show. “If a movie sucked, our reviewers will say so – in that language,” Paul says.
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Mobile Posse CEO Jon Jackson, New Plan managing partner Peter Buchanan, and LeverPoint COO Larry Rowe. Josh’s mobile platform now has four carries (including Verizon and Alltel) with a fifth coming soon. They also just finished doing some work for Dairy Queen (how can one improve upon perfection?), advertising the company’s new sweet treats menu.
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