They want to move to a state where they're taking a view of their risk ... on an ongoing basis, supported by technology. Today, you hear them talking about too much manual intervention. They want to see more tools emerge that they can hook onto their networks, onto their applications, that will perform the monitoring for them.

We found that privacy is a much less mature area in government, and there is less progress to report. Fewer agencies have addressed [privacy programs] as a priority ... the security programs [are] a bit more mature [and have been] addressed over a long period of time.

The increased risk was higher if you didn't have severe blood pressure, so presumably in people who've already got bad blood pressure, that's the main risk factor,

At the risk of heresy, I want to ask a simple question: Why? Why are we having these hearings? After all, there is little doubt that Roberts will be confirmed. ... Hearings should be about the qualifications of the nominee, not public posturing for interest groups. Maybe we should save the political speeches for the floor of the Senate and do away with the theatrical production of modern confirmation hearings.

The ability to determine what constitutes risk, and the requirement to report that risk to executive decision makers, can be a highly political activity requiring excellent written and oral communication skills with a good knowledge of business. Generally, these skills have been lacking in traditional technically-oriented information security specialists,

De-orbit is not a risk-free activity. We will be pretty darned happy to get to wheelstop and see this good crew step off Discovery.