DOD Cloud Guru Dave Wennergren is Featured in the December Issue of MIT...

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Dean Sprague

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Dec 9, 2009, 2:48:21 PM12/9/09
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When it comes to forward thinking know-how, the man in the know is Dave Wennergren. As the former Navy CIO, now DOD Deputy CIO – Dave is up to speed understanding elements of the cloud, Web 2.0 and SOA. Bar none, he is one of the smartest IT people in DOD who has heavy influence at the SecDef level. Do you have a solution he should consider? Now is your perfect chance to articulate that solution in or near his Q&A inside Military Information Technology magazine. 

 

Dave embraces mass collaboration & social networking, how he thinks we should emphasize secure information sharing; and how the cloud has the potential to REDUCE vulnerabilities. The future he says is harnessing trusted computing from untrusted computers. Dave empowers industry, “We are best served by strategic partnerships between government, industry and academia.

 

Pentagon leadership constructs IT requirements based on Dave’s forethought… Congress needs to know where to appropriate taxpayer dollars efficiently…

 

If you’d like to read his Q&A or advertise in the piece, please write: De...@kmimediagroup.com.  

 

 

Sebastian Stadil

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Dec 9, 2009, 3:03:12 PM12/9/09
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Seems like http://nebula.nasa.gov/ would be a no-brainer for him...

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scottxu

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Dec 9, 2009, 4:09:48 PM12/9/09
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I actually tried to work on a Trusted Computing solution based on TPM
chip for civil purposes, which provides much weaker security than
Intel's Trusted Execution Technology (TXT), essentially by attaching a
TPM-based device to a computer.

The device only can protect very limited applications which can fit
into the device, possibly good enough for civil purposes, at a low
price.

Guess DOD needs better security for all or most applications on their
computers, without caring too much about a little higher prices. So my
idea doesn't work for them.

I didn't work on it and follow Trusted Computing in recent years. I am
not an insider of the industry, and don't have enough knowledge to
work on it, even for a civil solution. So I gave up.

Scott



On Dec 9, 11:48 am, "Dean Sprague" <De...@kmimediagroup.com> wrote:
> When it comes to forward thinking know-how, the man in the know is Dave
> Wennergren. As the former Navy CIO, now DOD Deputy CIO - Dave is up to
> speed understanding elements of the cloud, Web 2.0 and SOA. Bar none, he
> is one of the smartest IT people in DOD who has heavy influence at the
> SecDef level. Do you have a solution he should consider? Now is your
> perfect chance to articulate that solution in or near his Q&A inside
> Military Information Technology magazine.  
>
> Dave embraces mass collaboration & social networking, how he thinks we
> should emphasize secure information sharing; and how the cloud has the
> potential to REDUCE vulnerabilities. The future he says is harnessing
> trusted computing from untrusted computers. Dave empowers industry, "We
> are best served by strategic partnerships between government, industry
> and academia.
>
> Pentagon leadership constructs IT requirements based on Dave's
> forethought... Congress needs to know where to appropriate taxpayer
> dollars efficiently...

Paola Garcia Juarez

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Dec 12, 2009, 9:41:41 PM12/12/09
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Hello Scott,
do you have any information about your proposal? I would like to read about it.

regards,
Paola

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scottxu

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Dec 12, 2009, 10:45:43 PM12/12/09
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Paola,

As I said I already gave it up, because I cannot learn more than
public documents on Web. So I don't have knowledge to do it. And I
never touched related software or hardware. No one is interested in
investing on it or even helping me to set up a lab to learn and
experiment. Usually people at least need long-time experiments to
figure out ideas for a prototype. Obviously I am a wrong person, so I
just forgot about it.

I talked on it simply because someone mentioned trusted computing in
the post above. I know this word.

Scott




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> Hello Scott,
> do you have any information about your proposal? I would like to read about
> it.
>
> regards,
> Paola
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scottxu

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Jan 7, 2010, 1:23:14 PM1/7/10
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Just to clarify more on the status of my former project. I don't want
to get involved in mysterious situations.

In the later of 2004, I started to learn some knowledge of security
solutions and got interested. In the early of 2005, I formed some
ideas of a hardware device-based solution.

In May of 2005, I met a hardware engineer who told me about trusted
computing. I noticed that the underlying principles of my solution and
trusted computing are very similar. So I decided to base my solution
on trusted computing and started to learn more details of X86.

After gained more hardware knowledge, I got a second idea, a solution
based on software algorithm. However I was not sure if such an
algorithm could be found at that time.

In the early of 2006, I learned more knowledge of X86
microarchitecture, then I know such algorithm solution is totally
impossible. So I went back to the first idea: the hardware device-
based solution.

What I want to clarify is: in the later of 2005 and early of 2006, I
actually had two ideas: a simple hardware device I am confident on; a
software algorithm solution I was not sure at that time. Some people
talked with me in this period may be confused.

The hardware solution has only limited capability as said in the
previous post. It was supposed to be used in a short transient period.
If it succeed, I would move into related software area later.

However, no one got serious enough to invest. So the timing of the
hardware solution was gone already. It was an idea 4-5 years ago. I
don't spend significant time on trusted computing since the middle of
2006, and even stopped following it since the early of 2008.

Many weird things happened on me since the middle of 2006. I don't
want to get involved in trusted computing any more. As said, I only
studied trusted computing in a very short time period, my knowledge
related to it is very limited.

Scott

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scottxu

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Jan 7, 2010, 3:18:55 PM1/7/10
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In the late of 2005, when I was thinking of a software algorithm
solution, I hope to find an inexpensive way to provide a trust base to
CPUs. However at that time, I actually don't know how modern CPUs work
internally. So the software algorithm solution idea does not work in
CPU architectures other than X86, too.

Scott

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