Taking care of a border security is one of the issues that government has to manage. It is not to be politicised to win votes and gain sympathy.
If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security.
So, I got into the law enforcement game. I worked for an outfit called Newton Detective Agency for a while. I worked eight hours on the waterfront making sure the longshoremen didn't take too many things.
L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time.
But I'm concerned about security.” My response to that is simple: “Security is for cadavers.
The bottom line is that it's better to run a workforce on security than insecurity.
Intelligence, like any other aspect of national security, has to be under civilian control.
The reality is that there are simply not enough skilled humans available to properly plan, manage, integrate, and optimize security devices, strategies, and protocols.
Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don't have configuration management, don't have vulnerability management, don't have patch management.
During my years of services in the government, I have spent a great deal of time studying and managing the spectrum of threats to our borders as well as the diverse ways in which those threats are moved across the border.
Ninety percent of cyber security companies begin in the detection stage. The issue is there are so many applications and alarming messages it is difficult for the user or the administrator to manage.
We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.
We think the managed security services opportunity is enormous and so we have been an active participant and probably the largest firm in this space outside of an IBM or EDS, which does large outsourcing contracts.
Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops.
We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management.
When I get the morning report on security, I call those battalions in the regions where there are problems.
