My speech as GOHAS

My dear friends, I am deeply honored to be here with you today! Thank you Adrian for inviting me; and to the person who suggested to you to get me as your guest speaker for this occasion. Thank you, whoever you are. . . I am home! ASR is the home of every Army Signal […]

Expert Working Group (EWG) for Cybersecurity

This was my opening address as co-chair of the Expert Working Group (EWG) for Cybersecurity at the ASEAN Defense Senior Officers’ Meeting (ADSOM) Plus held at Radisson-Blue Hotel in Cebu City on April 7, 2017. The ADSOM Plus is composed of cyber experts from Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, […]

THE LAST JOKE FROM DICK

DICTARINO M. SUGON 19 April 1956 – 08 February 2017 On Departure Day: On the 8th of February 2017, my dear classmate Dick Sugon expired at 3 o’clock in the morning at the Veterans’ Memorial Medical Center (VMMC). He was confined there due to diabetes and died after about a month when his right leg […]

Magandang Hapón!

There was a Japanese lecturer before me who greeted the audience, “Maganda hapon!” When my turn came up to talk at the Cyber Security Forum of DICT at Crowne Plaza this afternoon, I also greeted the audience, “Magandang hapón!” and told the group of Japanese sitting infront of me that the real meaning of that […]

Cyber Defense Presentation

As invited lecturer of DICT, this is my presentation I delivered during the “Summit on the Launching of the National Cybersecurity Plan 2022” on the 8th of December 2016 3:30PM at the Crowne Plaza Manila Galleria . . . Disclaimer: This article was written in my personal capacity. The opinions expressed here are my own […]

1st Hearing of the ASR(P)

Without everybody knowing and telling, I co-authored the creation of the Army Signal Regiment with my classmate, Dante Costes, in 2006, 10 years ago. We were still both colonels then. He was the Chief of Army Management Information Center (AMIC) and I was the Deputy G6. The proposal was known earlier as the Army Signal […]

The Cyber Regiment

I was still in the Army when I was part of the group of visionaries from the Signal Corps who foresaw what was coming. We have conceptualized and forwarded the creation of the Army Signal Regiment (ASR), which is, until now, probationary. The move is still being met with resistance and suspicion that Signal Officers […]

Cyber Security vs Cyber Defense

I have to start with the definition of terms. I hope, you already have the idea what cyber is. It is anything relating to computers or the internet, even to smart gadgets controlled by programs or remote controls running through networks. When we come to the words security and defense, many IT practitioner in the […]

On Passwords

By J. Irving In one of those tiring lectures, I told my office students that the default passwords to their computers were set initially for them to key-in the word “password”. Once they are inside, they can change it to a better password that is hard to crack. There was an elderly lady employee who […]

When to use the term “Keynote Speaker”?

Have you ever noticed during graduation exercises the guest of honour is referred as “Keynote Speaker”? This is evidently written at the stage backdrop and on the invitation programme handouts. One time when I was the Chief-of-Staff of TRADOC, I overheard my boss, then MGen Cardozo M. Luna, who was the “Keynote Speaker” at the […]