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This image is a tag cloud representing the Information Technology focus areas of 26 Chinese State Key Labs. It represents a fraction of the data that we're mining for our Chimera network defense product.

We try to host a Suits and Spooks event in different cities (other than Washington DC which remains a constant). Our Boston attendance was quite good last year, however I've been asked several times if we'd host a Suits and Spooks in New York City.

On March 15, 2013 I wrote an article for Slate magazine ("The U.S. response to Chinese cyberespionage is going to backfire") wherein I said:

The anti-China sentiment on the Hill, in the Pentagon, and at the White House clashes with the pro-China business policies of major U.S. companies, including those with very active in-house security operation centers. Beijing surely knows about this disconnect—and that makes the U.S. strategy look weak or inferior.

We've got a tremendous speaker line-up including John Caruthers, the head of the FBI's National Security Cyber Program at the San Diego field office, while on intelligence matters, we have RADM Andy Singer (USN ret) who, among his many accomplishments, was the Director of Intelligence for PACCOM. Lance Cottrell, the founder of Anonymizer, will speak on Operational Anonymity & Misattribution: Why you need it, how they track you, how to do it, how it fails, and best practices.

In today's digital landscape, threats are expanding and your intellectual property and trade secrets are their targets. You may not know the threat actor, but you can know what they're targeting.

CHIMERA will launch in the summer of 2013.

Tim O'Reilly gave a talk recently at Stanford University on the importance for startup companies to "close the loop" with their customers. Uber was used to demonstrate the concept. Both the Uber driver and the Uber customer know a lot about each other. They can track each other's location. The customer knows what the driver looks like as well as his license plate number. They can communicate with each other prior to the vehicle arriving.

According to Bloomberg, the following companies may see a piece of Obama's request to increase cyber security spending for the next fiscal year beginning Oct 1, 2013.

"The overall cybersecurity spending proposal of more than $13 billion is about $1 billion more than current levels, according to Ari Isaacman Astles, a spokeswoman for the White House Office of Management and Budget.  "Increased U.S. computer security spending may benefit SAIC Inc. (SAI) and Northrop Grumman Corp.

Network-centric Warfare has become the de facto standard for many nations, not just the U.S. Unfortunately, thanks to the exponential growth of global networks and the accompanying security vulnerabilities which seem to be infinite in number, the balance of power is no longer what it used to be and the U.S. cannot be assured of superiority in cyberspace.

Therefore, I think it's time that we had an indepth discussion on exactly how the InfoSec community can play a part in improving U.S.
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