Barry Kouns is CEO and principal consultant for Information Security Program services at Risk Based Security, Inc., an information security, threat intelligence, and risk management consultancy. Barry’s experience includes information security consulting, risk assessment and quality management. Barry has provided training, procedure development and pre-certification consulting services resulting in the successful ISO/IEC 27001 certification of more than three dozen organizations.
He has earned a B.S. in Statistics from Virginia Tech and a M.S. in Industrial Engineering Management from North Dakota State University. He has earned the CISSP designation, is a trained ISO /IEC 27001:2013 Auditor & ISMS Implementer, and is ITIL Foundation Certified.
Barry was a Captain in the United States Air Force and served as a B-52H Navigator/Bombardier.
Can Game Theory Save Us from Cyber Armageddon?
What can the movies “War Games” and Doctor Strangelove” teach us about avoiding a cyber Armageddon? The Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) doctrine, first introduced in the 1960s, is largely attributed with preventing any full-scale conflicts between the United States and the Soviet Union. MAD was part of U.S. strategic doctrine which believed that nuclear war could best be prevented if neither side could defend itself against the other’s missiles. Although not talked about very much today, the ghost of MAD and the lessons it teaches remain even if people would rather not think about it. Join this interactive session as we explore the parallels and learn the lessons of the MAD doctrine as it applies to cyber warfare today. It’s the same thing that the computer Joshua learned, the only way to win in cyber warfare is not to play.
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