With the constantly evolving Internet security threatscape, being able to actually get a grasp on the latest threats, let alone arm oneself against them, can seem overwhelming. While there are seemingly limitless best practices in regard to cybersecurity, below are several that should help reduce the likelihood of becoming a victim of cybercrime. As stated in previous entries to this series, cybercriminals have typically been on the inside edge when it comes to the race between cybercrime and cybersecurity.
"From its beginnings in 1978, spam messages, which began as mass mailings with the common goal of advertising.."
You're kidding me, right? Email was not available for mass consumption until the early to mid-90's.
SMTP wasn't developed until the early 80's. The only 'email' available in 1978 was MAIL and MLFL which were FTP based (RFC 385). Exactly what 'mailboxes' could email be sent to , in mass quatities, in 1978?
I'm always delighted to see John Boyd's ideas percolating into other fields, since I'm writing my dissertation on how his theories would apply to counter-insurgency. Note that the OODA Loop is both older and newer than you suggest. Boyd was a fighter pilot in the Korean War, though he came to it too late to become a shooter, let alone an ace. His later studies of fighter-plane performance proved that the American F-86 was inferior in almost every respect to the Russian-built MiG-15, EXCEPT THAT the Sabre had fully hydraulic controls, enabling its pilot to transition faster from one maneuver to another, and thus, eventually, to get on the tail of the MiG. This was the germ of Boyd's eventualy theory of 'fast transients'--the notion that tempo was the most important element in combat.
In time this insight became the OODA Loop that you describe, but it was actually around 1982 that Boyd actually came up with the formal, four-step process of Observation > Orientation > Decision > Action. So it was the work of his professional lifetime, and he kept refining it almost until the day he died. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford
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Navigating the New Cybercrime Threatscape, Part 3
Posted by: Jeff Debrosse September 23, 2009 04:00 AMWith the constantly evolving Internet security threatscape, being able to actually get a grasp on the latest threats, let alone arm oneself against them, can seem overwhelming. While there are seemingly limitless best practices in regard to cybersecurity, below are several that should help reduce the likelihood of becoming a victim of cybercrime. As stated in previous entries to this series, cybercriminals have typically been on the inside edge when it comes to the race between cybercrime and cybersecurity.
You're kidding me, right? Email was not available for mass consumption until the early to mid-90's.
SMTP wasn't developed until the early 80's. The only 'email' available in 1978 was MAIL and MLFL which were FTP based (RFC 385). Exactly what 'mailboxes' could email be sent to , in mass quatities, in 1978?
I don't know if this software will show urls, but you can see an early draft of my COIN/OODA essay at http://www.warbirdforum.com/boyddiss.htm
Blue skies! -- Dan Ford
In time this insight became the OODA Loop that you describe, but it was actually around 1982 that Boyd actually came up with the formal, four-step process of Observation > Orientation > Decision > Action. So it was the work of his professional lifetime, and he kept refining it almost until the day he died. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford