Buzzword Watch: Prosilience

Summer Fowler at CMU has invented a new word: prosilience: I propose that we build operationally PROSILIENT organizations. If operational resilience, as we like to say, is risk management "all grown up," then prosilience is resilience with consciousness of environment, self-awareness, and the capacity to evolve. It is not about being able to operate through disruption, it is about anticipating… Continue reading Buzzword Watch: Prosilience

Cryptography Is Harder Than It Looks

Writing a magazine column is always an exercise in time travel. I’m writing these words in early December. You’re reading them in February. This means anything that’s news as I write this will be old hat in two months, and anything that’s news to you hasn’t happened yet as I’m writing. This past November, a group of researchers found some… Continue reading Cryptography Is Harder Than It Looks