Brian Snow Sows Cyber Fears

That’s no less sensational than the Calgary Herald headline: “Total cyber-meltdown almost inevitable, expert tells Calgary audience.” That’s former NSA Technical Director Brian Snow talking to a university audience.

“It’s long weeks to short months at best before there’s a security meltdown,” said Snow, as a guest lecturer for the Institute for Security, Privacy and Information Assurance, an interdisciplinary group at the university dedicated to information security. “Will a bank failure be the wake-up call before we act? It’s a global problem — not just the U.S., not just Canada, but the world.”

I know Brian, and I have to believe his definition of “security meltdown” is more limited than the headline leads one to believe.

Posted on December 2, 2010 at 7:06 AM • 31 Comments