Re: What is a cyber-range?

["Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net>]

On Jul 7, 2011, at 8:07 PM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:

> From the standpoint of networking security, the real issue is that only a tiny percentage of soi-disant 'security' 
> practitioners understand TCP/IP, and only a subset of those understand the interaction of the entire OS/app/services 
> stack with networking, much less how the Internet really works in terms of BGP, DNS, how to 
> design/deploy/operate/defend scalable and resilient networks, and so forth.

> From the standpoint of information security in general, only a tiny percentage of soi-disant 'security' practitioners 
> understand anything at all about computer science, about the conceptual underpinnings of coding securely, of how to 
> design complex systems with fundamentally secure architectures, et. al.  Most appear to be little more than Windows 
> 'power users', if that.


Apologies for the self-reply - some kind of formatting issue somewhere in the message delivery chain made it appear 
that Michael Chesmore wrote the above stanzas.  They were actually part of my reply, sorry for any confusion/apparent 
misattribution.

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                          -- Oscar Wilde

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