The Art & Science of Metawar – Winn Schwartau – BSW #318
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1. The Art & Science of Metawar – Winn Schwartau – BSW #318
The metaverse is an evolving storytelling environment in which humans have congregated for millennia to experience alternate, immersive, and simulated realities, with or without technology. Storytelling is designed to influence mental and physical perceptions suiting the purposes of the content creators.
Metawar is the art of applying science to create and defend against the influence of alternate realities in the metaverse. What if we can longer rely on our senses to determine what is real and what is fiction?
Winn's research into Metawar initially focused on metaversal technologies. Unexpectedly, it morphed into an intensely personal experience, triggering Winn's own Metanoia, which had a profound impact on the entire Metawar Thesis. Winn joins Business Security Weekly to share his Metanoia.
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The “Civilian Architect of Information Warfare”
– Commodore Pat Tyrrell OBE Royal Navy, 1996
Winn has lived Cybersecurity since 1983, and now says, “I think, maybe, I’m just starting to understand it.” His predictions about the internet & security have been scarily spot on. He coined the term “Electronic Pearl Harbor” while testifying before Congress in 1991. His seminal book, “Information Warfare” showed the world how and why massive identity theft, cyber-espionage, nation-state hacking, and cyber-terrorism would be an integral part of the future (today’s present).
Currently, he is exploring “Metawar,” a term he coined to describe the art and science of reality distortion, manipulation, and addiction in the metaverse. Just with current and short-term technological capabilities, the security, privacy, ethics, and global policy implications are staggering.
His last book, “Analogue Network Security” is a time-based probabilistic approach to security. By hybridizing analogue and digital techniques, he offers methods to “fix security and the internet”. It will twist your mind. “The Best Cybersecurity Book of All Time,” Cyber Defense Magazine.
• Fellow, Royal Society of the Arts
• Distinguished Fellow: Ponemon Institute
• International Security Hall of Fame: ISSA
• Top-20 industry pioneers: SC Magazine.
• Top 25 Most Influential: Security Magazine
• Top 5 Security Thinkers: SC Magazine.
• Power Thinker and one of the 50 most powerful people: Network World.
• Top Rated (4.85/5) RSA Speaker
• Top Rated Webinar: 4.56 (ISC2)
• .001% Top Influencer RSAC-2019
• Global Power Speaker
Author: “Pearl Harbor Dot Com” (Die Hard IV), 3 volumes of “Information Warfare”, “CyberShock”, “Internet and Computer Ethics for Kids”. (More on his web site.)
Executive Producer: “Hackers Are People Too”
Founder: TheSecurityAwarenessCompany, Security Experts, InfowarCon, Hacker Jeopardy
http://www.WinnSchwartau.com
@WinnSchwartau
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2. CISO’s Actionable Strategy for Success, Security Basics are Hard, & Building Culture – BSW #318
In the leadership and communications section, A CISO's Actionable Strategy for Success, Security basics aren’t so basic — they’re hard, Building a Culture Where Employees Feel Free to Speak Up, and more!
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- 1. A CISO’s Actionable Strategy for Success
Here are three ways you can communicate risk to your leadership team:
1: Make the Risk Real 2: Partner with Leaders Across Other Departments 3: Reframe the Conversation
- 2. Security basics aren’t so basic — they’re hard
The basics of cybersecurity, it turns out, aren’t so basic.
Fundamental defenses — identity and access management, MFA, memory-safe languages, patching and vulnerability management — are lacking or nonexistent across the economy, according to cybersecurity experts.
- 3. How CEOs Can Navigate the Emotional Labor of Leadership
Although the CEO role comes with power, pay, and privilege, it also involves emotional labor, as leaders feel the toll of making divisive and unpopular decisions. This aspect of the job has become more challenging the last few years. This article offers leaders four tools to help cope with the pressure.
- 4. Empowering Teams Through Delegation: Cultivating Respectful Leadership
As entrepreneurs, we stride towards our goals with unbridled passion and unwavering determination. Our visions drive us, and our businesses are a testament to our commitment. Yet, the journey to success is marked by pivotal choices, and one such choice is embracing the art of delegation.
- 5. Building a Culture Where Employees Feel Free to Speak Up
When employees at every level speak up, they circulate local knowledge, expand the universe of useful ideas, and prevent collective tunnel vision. And not infrequently, minority views turn into novel solutions. But you can’t speak a speak-up culture into existence — doing so in the absence of true psychological safety is an abdication of leadership and an admission of failure. The author presents four steps leaders can take to create conditions that give all employees a voice — and motivate them to use it:
1) Separate worth from worthiness; 2) separate loyalty from agreement; 3) separate status from opinion; and 4) separate permission from adoption.
- 6. How to Hire Cybersecurity Professionals
Experts outline four things that employers can do to build their cybersecurity workforces.
- Boost Training
- Look Beyond Traditional Talent Pools
- Zero In On Diversity and Inclusion
- Embrace Cybersecurity Professionals
