Richard Forno

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Richard Forno is a consultant, lecturer, and writer in the area of Washington, DC. At one time, Forno was the Chief Information Security Officer for Network Solutions. Forno is the author of the books The Art of Information Warfare, Incident Response, and Weapons of Mass Delusion: America's Real National Emergency.

Forno writes and publishes on his web site articles on technology, computer security, and politics, roughly at the rate of one every two weeks. An example of his articles is "The Joke of Federal Cybersecurity Oversight", dated 17 March 2004.

[edit] The Joke of Federal Cybersecurity Oversight

Toward the beginning of the essay, Forno lists a series of news articles, mostly from CNET News.com, that describe inadequacies in the Federal Government's computer security. (He also notes his opinion that the mass media, in its drive to attract attention, tends to ignore news of positive developments in Federal computer security.)

In the rest of the essay, Forno criticizes the Government for insecure administration of information technology.

"Granted, popular enterprise technology is nowhere as secure as it should be, but today's federal cybersecurity woes result more from flawed technology management practices than flawed technology. To that end, we need to foster and reward innovative, effective management processes in the federal computer security arena and terminate the current technology management and oversight philosophy that tolerates and rewards idleness and mediocrity while doing little to actually eliminate them."

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• "The Joke of Federal Cybersecurity Oversight", an essay by Richard Forno