Attitudes

Abstract

Digital controls and internet connectivity have fostered a hostile predatory environment for modern systems. Organized crime and nation state interests are naturally compelled to exploit these readily accessible opportunities for financial and political advantages. Systems engineering is being called upon to reorient its priorities accordingly. INCOSE's Future of Systems Engineering (FuSE) to realize the Systems Engineering Vision 2035 has a security-focused activity exploring what this reorientation might be. This article shares some of that thinking, exposes some issues in need of more thinking, and suggests why and how all systems engineers could and should be part of this thinking.