Aligning IT

Episode 10: Crisis Management and Crisis Planning, Plan Bravo with Hank Brown USMC LtCol (Ret)

Episode Summary

Aligning IT means creating better business outcomes. It's about aligning your business strategy and objectives with IT. Hank Brown is a graduate of the Naval Academy, a retired US Marine LtCol and one of the founding members of USCYBERCOM. Hank is an expert in Cyberwarfae and has a deep understanding of how fragile our infrastructure is, and has become. Hank talks to us a bit about Plan Bravo, his work to assist others in preparing properly for crisis and disasters and failures of our infrastructure - primarily power and communications.

Episode Notes

Understanding the tensions that exist between various systems, such as the cyber security concepts around Confidentiality, Availability and Integrity. Emphasizing any of these requires de-emphasizing of the others. This creates risk, risk which needs to be identified, and then mitigated and bound where and when possible. 

• Most modern things we enjoy are dependent on power, communications and water.
• These are all very fragile, and we are seeing this more right now during COVID-19
• We have taken these for granted that water, electricity and communications will just always flow because the more we try to gain efficiency the more fragile they become
• We cannot do much about the risks, we can't change the risks of a foreign government attacking a utility for instance BUT you can prepare yourself for if that happens 
• Create a buffer for your family, such as pre-purchasing a two week supply of your critical items to buy space and time to adjust to your new conditions and then not be desperate
• Buying things in advance that you will use, not things you don't need
• You can think stay in front of the curve of disruption
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