About two years ago my team and I were white-boarding some design concepts in a nondescript building in Falls Church, Virginia. The designs were for a new, modular cyber defense system that would replace an aging system nearly a decade old (we’ll call it Medley 2-5491). Medley 2-5491 was pretty complex, and sat at the perimeter of […]
Category: Systems Engineering
The Illusion of Cyber Security
Circa 2003. Joy 3-2581, fresh out of grad school, begins his career as a software engineer in the bowels of a four-story brick building on the edge of Naval Air Station, Pensacola. Writing code was his passion, and the added bonus of contributing to our Nation’s cyber defense was a privilege not overlooked at the time, […]
