Comments on: The World Bank’s 2011 World Development Report http://www.globaldashboard.org/2010/02/12/the-world-banks-2011-world-development-report/ Global risks and how to respond to them, edited by Alex Evans and David Steven Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:49:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dave http://www.globaldashboard.org/2010/02/12/the-world-banks-2011-world-development-report/comment-page-1/#comment-18320 Dave Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:00:01 +0000 http://www.globaldashboard.org/?p=12874#comment-18320 On the subject of risk drivers, I just came across this interview with Jeffrey Carr, author of 'Inside Cyber Warfare': http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/02/cyber-warfare-dont-inflate-it.html And he mentions this report on the vulnerability of the US's power grid: http://www.scribd.com/doc/25550091/Proj-Grey-Goose-report-on-Critical-Infrastructure-Attacks-Actors-and-Emerging-Threats My instinct with private-sector risk evaluators is to be cautious of conflicts of interest - "you'll all perish if you don't pay us to explain how to escape!" - so I thought I'd pass it on to someone more able to put it into context... On the subject of risk drivers, I just came across this interview with Jeffrey Carr, author of ‘Inside Cyber Warfare’:
http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/02/cyber-warfare-dont-inflate-it.html

And he mentions this report on the vulnerability of the US’s power grid:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/25550091/Proj-Grey-Goose-report-on-Critical-Infrastructure-Attacks-Actors-and-Emerging-Threats

My instinct with private-sector risk evaluators is to be cautious of conflicts of interest – “you’ll all perish if you don’t pay us to explain how to escape!” – so I thought I’d pass it on to someone more able to put it into context…

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