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Command Transformation which is a new name for SACLANT with a brief to transform
NATO. What is the new NATO? The new NATO is leaner and more mobile, and I think
that is going to be the big issue of the future. NATO reaction forces are in Afghanistan
and Iraq will probably be next. And everyone wants to use GSM. Everything has
vulnerabilities which will certainly increase. There is a paradigm of the East-West split;
we tried to fix netwar with good firewalls, etc., but on each side there ws a classification.
Now it is all mixed up. I can send an e-mail from my phone, I can browse the web from
my phone, I can receive a voice-mail in my inbox, I can receive a fax in my inbox. In this
concept of turbo-Internet, there is no Internet, only cyberspace. Cyberspace is GSM
netwar; the Internet, the fixed telephone network, there is no distinction anymore, data
just flows from one to the other. We have not really touched on the concept of securing
data itself. We need to see the data as an object and secure the object wherever it
appears, whether it is on the phone or on the laptop. It is not easy; it obviously depends
on a really strong authentication because you have to make sure that the person who
needs the information, gets that information when he needs it, where he needs it, as
quickly as he needs it, but also that the person listening on the outside does not obtain
that information.
EXAMEL again seems to be the way people are going. We need a common exchange
mechanism.
The main trend is that we are going to watch more military use than industry; in the
end industry does many things to save money. It is a way of making better use of the
money you have, and getting a competitive advantage. That is the way the military
should be going, but we all have budget issues.
Valente : I will also try to come to some conclusions and to some additional inputs for
the future and what NATO can do. We spoke a lot about cyberwar, netwar,
cyberterrorism, cyberjihad, cyberintelligence, and knowledge collaboration culture. I
propose to you that we have been talking about information warfare. And I also propose
that information warfare fits in nicely with the techniques and the frameworks of
information management. Now information management as I learned from Paulo Amaral
is a social and technical problem and therefore needs a social and technical approach.
You should look not only at technology but also at people and culture and management
and organisation.
We spoke about several technologies, not only in terms of information technologies
but also methodologies, frameworks and several tools. It occurred to me that some work
that is currently done, namely complexity studies and the emerging order of complex
systems, might allow us to extract some mining from the enormous pools of information
without having to dig into the information; the information itself can provide us with
order.
In the field of social software now there is currently the development of a new
technique called a bobble. Social software might be able to identify trends and
connections between information.
Regarding people and culture we have talked about the security mindset, about training
people and in particular we heard about the very good examples from our Ukrainian
colleagues, about their laws and organisations. But regarding people and culture, I would
like to say again that is important to comprehend other cultures and motivations; it is
extremely important that organisations leverage their knowledge and ascend those
motivations, co-opting those people rather than antagonising them. We were just talking