Prof. Daniel Aldrich, author of several books on Resilience, and Director of the Resilience & Security Studies Program at Northeastern University participates in Risk Roundup to discuss Resilience and Security.
Resilience and Security
If we are to protect our hard-fought progress and development in cyberspace, geospace, and space (CGS), managing and building resilience needs to be a priority for entities across nations: its government, industries, organizations, and academia (NGIOA). Nations will thrive when all of their components know how to build resilience in their initiatives.
The ability of a nation to be resilient and its effectiveness, therefore, depends upon all its components’ ability to anticipate, absorb, adapt to, and/or rapidly recover from any potentially disruptive event in cyberspace, geospace, and space.
Since, risk, resilience, and security walk hand in hand, it is important to understand how to manage security risks from cyberspace, geospace, and space. It needs to be understood that any attempt to reduce the risks in CGS, is a step towards building a resilient nation. Since each decision and action impacts the level of resilience in CGS, the assessments of and choices made about security risk from CGS decision-makers will likely shape how individuals and entities across NGIOA will behave; how they will respond during and after a security event, irrespective of CGS, and how they will plan for future security in CGS.
Understanding security risks from cyberspace, geospace, and space are therefore fundamental to nations’ resilience and security.
Conclusion – Resilience, and Security
As risk, resilience, and recovery are slowly but steadily becoming an integral component of risk management and oversight, nations that are able to balance and manage not only independent: tactical, operational, and strategic security risks, but also interconnected and interdependent CGS security risks that transcend their traditional boundaries in cyberspace, geospace and space will move ahead of competitors that cannot.
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About the Guest
Prof. Daniel Aldrich is a full professor and Director of the Security and Resilience Studies program at Northeastern University. He specializes in Japanese politics, nuclear power, NIMBY politics, and disaster recovery. Previously at Purdue University, during the 2012-2013 academic year he was a Fulbright research professor at Tokyo University and during the 2011-2012 academic year, he was an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellow at USAID. His first book project, called SITE FIGHTS: Controversial Facilities and Civil Society in Japan and the West, focused on how states handle conflict over controversial facilities like nuclear power plants, airports, and dams. His second book BUILDING RESILIENCE (2012 from the University of Chicago) investigated how social capital facilitates recovery following disasters.
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