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1. Read the article entitled (... replaces all the extra text in the article title). Based on your reading: 1. What is meant by the term "natural security"? Natural security takes the idea of national security and includes a few more things. We now consider environmental and ecological threats and aspects when looking at risk and what is happening in general. Natural security focuses more on the preservation and healthiness of ecosystems as a whole and not just the risks associated. 2. Describe the concept of "adaptability." Adaptability is being able to change your process or ideals to better fit the situation. If something in a specific ecosystem is not working how it should, something needs to adapt and change how it works to better help the security of the system. 3. Identify the four [nearly] universal features of adaptable biological organisms. ● How the systems are organized ● How they can learn ● How they use information to mitigate uncertainty ● How they extend their adaptable capacities through symbiotic relationships 4. Discuss how we failed to apply them for security management. ● Many times we focus on the threats and risks we can face, but understanding our system will make that job a lot easier in general. Understanding the big picture helps us understand the smaller details. ● Understanding from past experiences and data helps us learn what we need to do. We cannot just go off of what MIGHT happen. What has happened and how can we improve? ● Going with the point above, understanding events in the past and present help us know what might happen in the future. Taking these facts and data can help us better prepare for the future and focus on what truly is important. ● Understanding how the organization runs is important. Not only is there an IT department, but there are so many more. Understanding how they all work and feed off each other helps show what risks and threats there are. Once these relationships are known and established, using them to understand risk can be important. 5. Discuss how we can apply them for security management going forward. ● I gave failures and suggestions in the question above
2. What might be the role of a security risk analysis profession in a hypothetical organization that adopts these four features? Within the role, understanding how your organization runs and works is very important. Understanding the relationships between different departments helps know what threats and risks we need to focus on specifically. Keeping data from our events and looking back at others helps us understand what might happen. Keeping a clear and concise log will not only help us, but those who take the positions after us. Finally, we need to know what to do if an event happens and something needs to change right away. Understanding how to adapt and work on the fly is important for understanding risk and managing it. 3. Suppose you were interviewing for a security risk analysis position. As a strategy to win the interviewer's favor, you decide to impress them with your knowledge of Natural Security. What do you plan to tell this interviewer about Natural Security? “Natural Security is like any other type of security, but there is an emphasis on considering environmental and ecological threats within the system. If we think of an actual ecosystem there are a lot of key factors that come into play. Plants need the air, we humans use that air to breath and the plant to eat, the plant takes the CO2 and changes it back. Animals adapt and understand each other's patterns and respond accordingly whether that be through hunting or helping. Natural security takes a critical look at all of this and tries to apply it to an organization. What departments work closely together, what needs to happen for the business to run well, if a threat gets in, how are we willing to adapt. These all sound very simple, but the relationships and uncertainty of events makes it a little tricky to really nail down." That is what I would say. 4. Finally... do some Internet research to discover an example from nature that seems security relevant. This may be an offensive capability of an individual or group of organisms, a defensive capability, a behavior, etc. It may be at the macro organism level, or at the cellular/pathogen level. Describe this example and suggest how it might be analogous to something in either the physical or cyber security context. And no, the obvious example of "viruses" is not an acceptable answer unless you explore a specific virus and discuss its specific mechanism and how it might be analogous to something specific. https://naturalsecurity.us/case-studies/ Within naturalsecurity.us, they have a few examples on nature and how we try and mitigate issues within. A huge issue right now is wildlife endangerment. Humans have been killing specific animals for a while now and we are starting to see the effect. Many animal species are starting to dwindle and possibly go extinct. The animals are not able to adapt and combat us humans since our technology and general hunting skills will beat most animals. Because of this, all natural security for these animals goes out the window. They have no idea how to combat us and stay alive. Many people within the government are defending these animals since they cannot do it themselves. We are adapting the rules
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