Winn Schwartau says the BlackBerry disruption this past week (see*BlackBerry Disruptions: Where to Start?*<http://blogs.govinfosecurity.com/posts.php?postID=1088>) hit at the heart of one of the fundamentals of IT security: availability.
"The availability function of the fundamental CIA triad (confidentiality, integrity, availability) has disappeared from the *mobile*<http://www.govinfosecurity.com/category.php?catID=212>component of the enterprise," cybersecurity and IT architecture practitioner Schwartau says in an interview with Information Security Media Group (select one of the Podcast Options at right to listen). "Does it affect data breaching? Probably not. Does it affect data confidentiality? Probably not. But having your systems down and having to resort to a pay phone or some other mechanism of communications (means) a lot of people are jumping through a lot of hoops." In the interview, Schwartau, who's credited with coining the term Cyber Pearl Harbor, also discusses: - Whether the slowdown in BlackBerry service was caused by faulty architecture or a cyberattack. - How mobile technologies pose the same business continuity<http://www.govinfosecurity.com/category.php?catID=76> challenges presented by other technologies. - Why technology and business leaders aren't held accountable when an IT catastrophe happens. Schwartau is board chairman of the smartphone security provider Mobile Active Defense and a recognized expert on information security, infrastructure protection and electronic privacy. He's one of the first authors to publish books, in the 1990s, about cyberwarfare and cyberterrorism as well as hacking. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nforceit" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nforceit?hl=en-GB.
