Many years ago I wrote a SANS paper on Community Policing the Internet (give me a break on the grammar – ChatGPT wasn’t a thing in 2003). In my paper, I tout the the mission of Infragard, a local chapter based community outreach organization fostered by the FBI (to the point the FBI provided background checks on persons wanting to join), for its ability to engage the frontline personnel employed by critical infrastructure sectors. It gave the FBI a means to get their agents in front of these members to start putting names with faces and hopefully trading contact information…
Category: Politics
Thinking Out Loud on a Global Stage
I have recently read two Op-Ed pieces concerning the lead up to the Putin war to re-assimilate Ukraine, one by Thomas L. Friedman and another piece by Robert Gates expounding his thoughts on future of threats from China and Russia and a return to military buildup by the U.S. and bringing back aid programs. The first piece I read talked about how the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) probably helped to push Putin into a corner from which he now fights to regain former Soviet states in a new Russian empire where America and NATO could share the blame. That…