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Up Yours
Nice metric courtesy of Grits – the costs of false alarms. And the casualties found at the intersection of reliable metrics and public policy. To quote Grits: But as [Former Dallas Police Chief] Kunkle says, this is an instance where tuff-on-crime … Continue reading
Audit Drips
I was catching up on the podcast backlog today. I listened for the first time to the Risk Hose, which had a meaty midsection on the internal auditing profession, and whether and how internal auditors assess, analyze and otherwise manage … Continue reading
The Professional
An interesting narrative, trapped unfortunately behind a pay wall, comes from the Chronicle of Higher Education – “Chapel Hill Researcher Fights Demotion After Security Breach” A cancer researcher’s database of gets potentially pwnd (two years from incident to discovery), spurring the … Continue reading
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Tagged breach notification, computer forensics, crime, data breach, medical privacy, privacy, security, standards
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Risk a Harm?
Interesting post and comments on privacy risk from Solove at Concurring Opinions. Despite being raised by a pack of feral solicitors, I can’t claim to understand all the legal theories involved. I’m attracted to the liquidated damages idea for a … Continue reading
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Tagged privacy, reputation risk, risk assessment, ssns, wsbk
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Risk of Death
At the Indy GP last weekend, the laconic Texan from Longview, Ben Spies, got pole and a podium at the Indianapolis. Which is a good thing. I saw him race in AMA in 2007. Tough, matter of fact, smart racer … Continue reading
DBR600RR – The Verizoning
I admit I genuinely enjoyed the latest Data Breach Report courtesy the stalwart boffins at Verizon Business. My personal benchmark of genuineness is derived from my ability to almost immediately put it to use in my job. Nonetheless, I’d like … Continue reading
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Live Twice
Chandler at the New School made me collect, collate and sort my thoughts on the whole recall issue. Although what follows is more like bend, fold and mutilate. The greatest risk Toyotas pose to me is that I get drowsy … Continue reading
Posing
Read this bit of oddness from the Statesman this morning – “Pflugerville man posed as model online to elicit cash.” A young man with “very effeminate voice” managed to spend four years shaking down lonely men for cash while posing … Continue reading
Sociables
When I read this commentary on privacy from Andrea Dimaio from Gartner, I was mildly surprised that people still thought like this, that privacy is tied to secrecy. Bob Blakley responds at the Burton Group. I agree with his analysis, … Continue reading
Fingertips
From today’s Austin American Statesman, this article discusses the fraud deterrent effect of fingerprinting applicants for food stamps, and if it is worth the delay it may be causing in processing (Department of Agriculture says it isn’t).There are lessons to … Continue reading
The One In Five 