Avoiding the Achilles heel of network-centric enterprises

Michelle McVey; Jay E. Dryer; Lance Randall

doi:10.1117/12.502318

8 August 2003 Avoiding the Achilles heel of network-centric enterprises

Michelle McVey, Jay E. Dryer, Lance Randall

Proceedings Volume 5072, Technologies, Systems, and Architectures for Transnational Defense II; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.502318
Event: AeroSense 2003, 2003, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Corporate, government and military bodies focus significant resources to develop sophisticated and capable information-based systems. The concept of people and resources connected by a robust network capable of extremely high rates of information exchange is very attractive because it allows smaller groups to coordinate together and focus effects from geographically diverse locations. However, there is also a hidden danger that comes with such advanced technology. For example, in the case of the U.S. Military, clearly United States holds a technological advantage over our adversaries and that this advantage is still expanding. This technology gap has resulted in the emergence of potent asymmetrical warfare. All too often in science fiction movies, we see a small group of humans defeat a technologically superior alien race by striking at a hidden weakness that renders all of their advanced weapons as useless, as a result of pervasive connectivity and interdependence. The analogy holds for any large network-centric enterprise, corporate or governmental. This paper focuses on specific technologies and methods that preempt this Achilles Heal scenario.

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Michelle McVey, Jay E. Dryer, and Lance Randall "Avoiding the Achilles heel of network-centric enterprises", Proc. SPIE 5072, Technologies, Systems, and Architectures for Transnational Defense II, (8 August 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.502318

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