Moving from the Information Age to the Security Age
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Information
Age
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Security Age
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Urban and
Home Environment
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Transportation
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Software/Data:
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Management of
"Files" and "Folders"
fast processing for
searches, reorganization
and archiving.
Examples:
word processing
and database management;
internet; search engines
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Management of activity,
personnel, sites, history,
reloads, searches,
organizing
Examples: access control
using biometrics
and personal
information; integration
of video/data/events
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National Communications
System and National
Infrastructure protection
center $150 million budget
The White House
Two factor authentication
tokens in early adoption
phase
Secure Computing Magazine
Eye Scan
Iridiantech |
"A Multi - Modal Cargo
Container Transportation
and Security" R&D
FBO for Vendor (R&D)
Department of
Transportation
 
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Technology:
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Decrease chip size,
more calls / minute,
cooler operation,
graphical integration
Examples:
2 GHZ desktop;
fuzzy logic; wavelet theory
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Greater compaction,
better images, digital
storage
Examples: perimeters;
digital video; biometrics;
sensors; controls
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2.5 million cameras in
Britain "A Watchful State"
New York Times Magazine
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"Customs Unveils
Security Moves" for
Membership Tracking
The Wall Street Journal
US Customs
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Common Use:
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Due to technology, trend to
smaller - general use by
individuals
Examples:
laptops; handheld PDA's
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Due to technology
smaller–general
use by individual;
even portables
Examples:
laptops; sensors;
portable control portals
PSA versus PDA
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General camera use
denied "Washington
Police to Play I Spy"
Wall Street Journal
"Police Outline
Limited use of
Surveillance Cameras"
LexisNexis
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Communication:
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H.S. Broadband
communication, volumes
of content, internet
access, CPU - to CPU via
phone, wireless connectivity
Examples:
intranet; internet;
sipranet
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Remote access
to data, video and
activity digitized content
Examples:
H.S. Dissemination;
transmission securenet;
enforcement tracking
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"Interception of Goods
or Money" International
Transfer–Electronic
Funds Xfer
Terrorism Ties in Malls
Philadelphia Inquirer
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"A Guide to Cross -
Border Privacy
Impact Assessments"
Thomas Karol
Google Search
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Inter-Personal:
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e-mail, messaging,
purchasing in virtual
store, more time at
computer and
less one-on-one
Examples:
outlook; chat rooms;
AOL, et al.;
the camcorder and
digital camera
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Detailed travel
arrangements,
color alert code,
careful investments
Examples:
(Non) profiling at
airports; random
searches; lack of
uniform ID; travel
restrictions
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"E-mail Security-
Dangerous Waters
Ahead" and "The
Weakest Link"
Secure Computing
Magazine |
Susceptibility to
bio–hazards (anthrax,
smallpox, nuclear waste)
Programmability of
explo/narco detectors
Berringer
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Social:
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Allowed environment
of "Data Driven Honesty",
greater access to
violent books, movies
and TV, interactive war /
violence gaming,
"Please have your
object call my object."
Examples:
cooking the books;
rumors and disinformation
on the internet;
electronic gaming;
Stephen King; phone
message/voice mail/
e-mail
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Greater dissemination
of uni-view news
Examples:
false trades between
sister companies;
more difficulty in
travel for non-US
citizens/family;
Serbia and A–Jazeera
news services
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Trans–Alaskan Pipeline
System, 6,800 Barrel
loss– "Nation Struggles
with Issue of Protecting
Infrastructure"
Engineering News Record
Department of Energy
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Rapiscan 1000
Capable of Seeing
through Clothes
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International:
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Generic payments
and shipments
cross borders;
global infrastructure
management (Air Traffic)
allows greater
international travel
Examples:
multi–lingual (manufactured)
software diminishes
cross–border differences
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Improved street
legal graphic
appliances (Fraud);
Examples: global access
allows greater access
for terror travel
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"The Color Coded
Terror Alert System"
Philadelphia Inquirer
"Red" Terrorism or
"Yellow" Smog Day
Glenn -McCoy /
Belleville Ill.
News–Democrat
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Dye sublimation
printing at low cost
FARGO
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