A few weeks ago, I posted here an excerpt from an upcoming book on coming national security threats. My own chapter deals with the place of IT in confronting those threats. The book--Threats In the Age of Obama (Amazon)--is now out.

In addition to my own, there is one other tech-related chapter from Bob Gourley, former CTO of the Defense Intelligence Agency. I recently mentioned on this site how cyber security gets little attention from both the cyber people and the security people. In his chapter, Bob explains why we need to spend more time on this issue:

Information technology (IT) is the enabler for nearly every endeavor in the modern world. Our economy, healthcare, food supply and national security are dependent on IT. The intellectual property of our nation's academic and corporate thinkers is held within IT. Global finance is conducted with IT. All indications are that our dependencies on IT will only increase, but we have yet to see an equally rapid or significant advance in the realm of IT security. Cyber defenders, law enforcement professionals, systems engineers and computer security experts work around the clock to help protect our IT enterprises, but at present we are fighting a losing battle. With “change” on the agenda we are at a critical decision point. Continuing to track along the present trend lines leaves us less secure—and our world less stable—by the day.

Related link: this morning, Bob published a post on Vladimir Putin's designs on our networks. It's worth reading, even if just to watch Putin's retort to Michael Dell.