Comments on: Business Protections: New thinking for new realities

By: janicegaines292

janicegaines292 — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:12:00 +0000

Great foresight. Electrical/phone poles are a goner if not this decade, then the next. Great security series by the way…

By: Seabreezes1

Seabreezes1 — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:37:22 +0000

Agreed! What’s more, as the govt sponsored hydro-electric projects of the 1920s & 30s like the the interstate initiative of the 50s & 60s created a more robust and improved economy, so would wise investment in our electronic network this decade not only protect us from various threats, but also be an economic stimulus.

By: Seabreezes1

Seabreezes1 — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 22:08:05 +0000

Goodness, yes! Our 21st century infrastructure must be flexible, extensible, scalable, self-healing and robust. And it must include disaster planning. I currently live on an peninsula island where the all the communications for the approx 36k residents are bundled under one of the two bridges that connect us to the mainland. Plus we are on an earthquake fault and are 30 minutes from the next nearest population center. Talk about vulnerability. Yet that is nothing compared to the vulnerability of organizations who rely on communication networks to do business. As we’ve become more and more connected, we’ve become more fragile with these single point of failures. It is time to address that weakness. What is needed is a comprehensive plan backed by our govt. with the same level of commitment given to the transcontinental railroad circa 1850, the Hoover Dam & TVA in the 1920s & 30s and interstate in the 1950s.