Security Design Communities of Practice: Why Design for Defense is NOT the same as designing for commerce

Interested in what security design is, and how this community of practice differ from the larger commercial oriented design disciplines (strategic design, human-centered design, industrial design, etc) that focus on user experiences and novel products that enhance/enable human manipulation of reality? Security design addresses how societies, governments, groups and security entities attempt to shape, transform and act within a ‘second order of complexity’ where humans socially construct a densely complex second layer of reality upon the existing naturally complex reality. Consider a hurricane moving toward Florida- the weather system is a complex phenomenon- impossible to predict or plot more than a few days out even with 21st century technology and knowledge; we humans might put even more advanced weather satellites in orbit through 2030 only to gain perhaps another 10–12 hours of useful prediction data… this is that first natural order of complexity- a complex reality with or without human beings. The second order is entirely conceptualized within our minds and shared/conveyed/developed through our language, belief systems, models, methods, and theories… which is why people will clear out shelves of toilet paper and beer impulsively and frantically when the news media promotes a deadly…