Theater Shaping With Allies and Partners:

Theater Shaping With Allies and Partners:

Herman Finley19 March 2012

Information Technology (IT) and Cyber Security

Agenda

• IT and Asia-Pacific

• Key categories of IT

• Implications of IT trends

• Potential outcomes

• Dealing with those outcomes

Main Points

• IT is the foundation of future well-being• IT integrates, cross-cuts and enhances other

technologies

• Cyber-security is foundation for use of IT• In dealing with Allies and Partners, IT is all

about connection, collaboration and context

What Does IT Do For Us?E+C=E

• Educate: creates awareness and understanding

• Connect: creates shared awareness and potential for collective action

• Empower: enables collective action and paradigm shifts

Big Bags of ToysWWW

CloudSOCIAL

MEDIA

WIRELESS

Big Data

Smart

Manufacture

“Manchine”CyberOperationsKnowledge Display

Internet Usage in AsiaAsian Nations with over 50% of Population Using the Internet

Country or Region

Internet Usage % of Population

Rank in World

Australia 80.1 11

Korea 77.3 13

US 76.3 16

Japan 75.5 19

Singapore 72.4 25

Hong Kong 69.2 32

Taiwan 65.9 39

Malaysia 65.7 40

Niue 62.6 44

Selected Other Asian Nations

Country or Region

Internet Usage % of Population

China 38.4

Vietnam 33.7

Indonesia 22.4

Mongolia 11.3

India 10.2

Laos 8.1

Myanmar 0.2

ASIA Total 26.2

WORLD Total 32.7

Data Derived from Internetworldstats.com at http://www.internetworldstats.com/top25.htm

Asia’s IT Landscape

• Whole-of-society leaders– US, Korea, Japan, Australia, Singapore

• Bi-level societies– PRC, India, Indonesia

• Emerging players– Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Philippines

• Marginal adopters– Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Bangladesh

Implications of Trends

• More• Faster• Denser• Agile• Integrated• Mass customization

Functional Implications

• Economic• Military• Social• Political

Good StuffPositive Outcomes

• Massive increase in ability to collect, manipulate/build and propagate knowledge

• Deep and wide connectedness• Enhanced productivity – Major industry and entrepreneurial levels

• Wider availability for educational programs: “Cell Phone University”

• Increased agility of knowledge

Dark Side Negative Outcomes

• Political Instability• “Know-Do” Gap• Cyber Activities – Cyber psychosis– Cyber pollution– Cyber attacks– Cyber crime

End of SecrecyEnd of Peace

Cyber Crime is Big...$388Billion

• Bigger than…the global black market in marijuana, cocaine and heroin combined ($288bn) and approaching the value of all global drug trafficking ($411bn

• 431million adults in 24 countries experienced cybercrime in the last year

• More than a million became victims every day

Norton Cybercrime Report 2011http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/home_homeoffice/html/cybercrimereport/

Cyber Attacks

“Stuxnet is the new face of 21st-century warfare: invisible, anonymous, and devastating. “

Vanity Fair , March, 2011 on-line editionwww.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/04/stuxnet-201104

“…the United States reserves the right, under the laws of armed conflict, to respond to serious cyber attacks with a proportional and justified military response at the time and place of our choosing”

William Lynn, former US Deputy Secretary of Defense

Where Can You Help?

DisasterManagement

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

PLATFORM

AGNOSTIC

APPLICATIONS

Technology Education

Sensor to Decision

MakerSenseMaking

CyberSecurity

Client Sensitive Technology

SCADA

Main Points

• IT is the foundation of future well-being• IT integrates, cross-cuts and enhances other

technologies

• Cyber-security is foundation for use of IT• In dealing with Allies and Partners, IT is all

about connection, collaboration and context

Theater Shaping With Allies and Partners:

Herman Finley19 March 2012

Information Technology (IT) and Cyber Security