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Tea Risk
At the Tea Risk conference today. Heard a woman keynote all over me, until my brain sploded. Her talk was divided into two part:1. A retrospective of headlines indicate that there has been no progress in information security in the … Continue reading
Non Fiction: Risk
From Alex Roy’s The Driver: “Our second hour of 150 mph or more inspired a highly unscientific analysis of the actual danger we faced. I concocted what I called The Danger Coefficient (DC). I guessed the average NASCAR driver, in … Continue reading
Fiction
From Ed Park’s Personal Days: “Every employee would soon be required to create a new log-on password consisting of a mix of nonsequential capital letters and a three-digit prime number and a punctuation mark, and then change it once a … Continue reading
4th Quadrant
My favorite ex-quant, N. N. Taleb, outlines the 4th Quadrant. Thoroughly enjoyable, but I’m a fan. This table made sense to me:In information risk management, what sort of events are fat tailed with complex payoff? Or which are not?I’ve suspected … Continue reading
The Wisdom of Mobs
Alex mentions stock prices as a potential input into information risk assessment. I’m skeptical of the value of market driven metrics, and the collective wisdom of the market’s crowd in assessing value of an asset. The forces driving stock prices … Continue reading
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Visualize World Data Breach
38.2% of the known universe has blogged about the Verizon data breach report and how it has changed their life, and opened their eyes, busted icons and confirmed suspicions. But I looked right at the facts there, but I might … Continue reading
Cruel But Fair: The IT Auditor’s Ball
There is no need to remind me how I dislike Las Vegas. As the woman walking away from the conference this afternoon said, “casinos are full of weird people.” And she wasn’t talking about her fellow information systems governance professionals. … Continue reading
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Metrics Gone Wrong: Horsepower at 100% Throttle
In the April issue of Bike magazine, Simon Hargreaves examines the myth of the dyno. The rise of the the Dynojet Dynamometer provided a cheap, standard way to measure motorcycle horsepower, allowing a common manner to rate the impact of … Continue reading
Metrics Gone Wrong: Body Count
From the Washington Post, and which also I heard on the radio this morning, the Colombian army finds a twisted method to meet their performance metrics: But under intense pressure from Colombian military commanders to register combat kills, the army … Continue reading
Releative Position and Privacy
Ed Felton recently wrote two posts on the failure of the marketability of privacy, and how corporations and consumers should respond. According to Felton: There’s an obvious market failure here. If we postulate that at least some customers want to … Continue reading
The One In Five 