Inside the Black Box: Data, Metadata, and Cyber Attacks

Do you understand how your computer systems work?

Can your subordinates, superiors, and media contacts confuse you, mislead you, trick you, con you, blindside you, or humiliate you because your computer system is a "black box" to you?

The technologies of engineering and science are operating at full force today. There is a real issue as to whether the complex tools of technology are fully understood by anyone outside the small group of engineers who develop and use these tools.

Key management personnel are accepting on blind faith what they are being told about their "black boxes."

Are you one of these key management personnel? Are your accepting on blind faith what you are being told about your "black boxes?"

Key management personnel from the White House to Congress to the National Security Agency are ignorant of the complex tools over which they preside.

Who will admit to such ignorance?

Let's open the black boxes of databases, data warehouses, data cleansing, data mining, and cyber attacks.

Let's get the tools to stop being confused, mislead, tricked, conned, blindsided, and humiliated.

This e-book is presented in Plain English using simple concepts with clear illustrations.

"If I don't know, I want to know. If I know, I want to know more."

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