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Chris Blask

Above the Packet: Cybersecurity's New Meaning Layer

Above the Packet: Cybersecurity's New Meaning Layer

In less than two weeks, a question about software safety moved from coffee-call conversation to an OpenSSF issue, a community schema, a validator, and active alignment with CycloneDX and SPDX. That speed is interesting. The way it happened is more interesting.

We Know Reality by What Returns

We Know Reality by What Returns

A utility trusts its operating picture because measurements return in expected ranges, alarms correlate with physical events, crews report back from the field, substations behave consistently, and the model of the grid keeps meeting the grid itself. Return is how reality becomes believable.