Before 9/11, almost all of our countries and organizations current day vulnerabilities were in existence.
Whether you focused on increasing protection from other nations states, the growing regional terrorist sects or the online dark net criminal syndicates, their growing presence and actions were all visible.
What has changed in the past two decades in the continuous and pervasive strategies to provide greater Critical Infrastructure Protection and security and safety to our United States and our citizens?
If there was a simple bullet list of items to address the answer to this question, it would seem:
- Incomplete.
- Short sighted.
Today, our adversaries have substantial new speed and stealth due to technology innovation, such as encryption, 5G and various levels of Aerial/SAT imaging or video.
They have new highly-trained human assets who are continuously recruited online and in-person to travel and impersonate roles in the private sector to attend our key events and meetings.
To get more perspective, one only has to watch the entertaining and educational movie “Duplicity” to learn and remember how our organizations intellectual property and new inventions are under constant assault.
Yet the “Infinite Game” continues across old and new frontiers of our globe, in some of the most unexpected places for the average U.S. citizen, who might not even know the answer to some of our standardized U.S. History 101 questions.
In our Farm lands. In our Schools. In our Private Equity firms. In our Financial institutions. In our Healthcare organizations. In our Utility companies. In our Defense Industrial Base (DIB). In our Global Fortune 100.
How might we improve our abilities to increase our resilience?
We must step up our learning from what has worked more than two decades ago.
Many have forgotten integrity or never experienced what can be accomplished with even more trusted relationships.
You see, it might take your valuable time to make a phone call on that little rectangular camera box in your pocket.
It might take your time to get on a plane or in your car to drive across miles of a freeway to meet someone in person at a coffee shop or for a club sandwich.
The trusted old "One-to-One", "Face-to-Face" ability to build a relationship from a personal introduction to a lasting intellectual and learning experience is our only future hope.
It remains the chance to see and feel another persons true ambition, real emotion or innovative intellectual excellence.
You might think that our world has changed tremendously over the past two decades.
In reality, "Building Trusted Relationships" has a formula that has lasted over centuries…
