Howard Schmidt patrols cyberspace

The long view of security strategies for your network.

Sometimes a person's biography alone is grounds for reading whatever they write. I've got a specific case for you.

Howard Schmidt, CISSP, CISM, is the president of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) and author of a fascinating book entitled Patrolling Cyberspace: Lessons Learned from a Lifetime in Data Security. 

Schmidt has indeed had a lifetime of involvement in security, beginning with his service to the nation as a member of the U.S. Air Force from 1967 to 1983, the Arizona Air National Guard from 1989 to 1998, and U.S. Army reserves where he was a special agent in the Criminal Investigation Division as well as being a city police officer for the Chandler, Ariz., Police Department. He moved to the National Drug Intelligence Center at the FBI and was a key contributor to the development of computer forensic methodology as head of the Computer Exploitation Team. He also served as supervisory special agent and director of the Air Force office of special investigations computer forensics lab in computer crime and information warfare division where he created a pioneering computer forensics lab for the federal government.

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7. Safeguarding Our Goods: educating the police, the US federal response, child pornography, intellectual property rights, jurisdictional nightmares.

8. Where We’re Most Vulnerable: Senate Armed Services Committee on Security in Cyber Space, GAO report on DoD systems being attacked, PCCIP, PDD-63, information sharing my eye, PCIPB, DHS, not crying wolf, Titan Rain.

9. The Highway Ahead: Top Ten Trends Impacting Security, cybercrime will become normal, identity theft will get worse, distrust v. optimism.

It’s a great read!

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M. E. Kabay, PhD, CISSP-ISSMP, specializes in security and operations management consulting services and teaching. He is Chief Technical Officer of Adaptive Cyber Security Instruments, Inc. and Associate Professor of Information Assurance in the School of Business and Management at Norwich University. Visit his Web site for white papers and course materials.