Cybersecurity: Is It Worse than We Think?
Evaluating actual implementations and practices versus stated goals.
Leon A. Kappelman
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Predicting the future is an activity fraught with error. Wilbur Wright, co-inventor of the motorized airplane that successfully completed the first manned flight in 1903, seems to have learned this lesson when he noted: "In 1901, I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for 50 years. Ever since I have … […]
Are We Ready?: Risk, Reality, and Readiness
After five long years of dealing with and studying the Y2K computer problem in hundreds of public and private enterprises and scores of countries, does it just come down to one question? What are you going to do on New Year’s Eve? The question itself indicates a common naivete about the Y2K computer problem—the illusion […]
Viewpoint: Saving Our Sacred Honor
I get several Y2K-related queries from nontechnical folks almost daily. People genuinely confused and truly afraid because for the first time in their lives they are not sure they can trust the technologies they place great faith in, and yet, do not understand. In fact, according to one study, the U.S. public rates its overall […]
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