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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
From Rothman, an article at CSOnline discusses Moody’s infosec risk rating service. I personally dig this quote: The idea for such an at-a-glance rating is appealing to risk executives such as Andre Gold, head of security and risk management for … Continue reading
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Tagged best practices, risk assessment, risk management, the office
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Now That’s a Complaint…..
From Concurring Opinions (and elsewhere), a paper by Chris Hoofnagle “Measuring Identity Theft at Top Banks.” Hoofnagle is asking the question: How does a consumer or regulator measure the incidence of identity theft from a financial institution? In an attempt … Continue reading
Fillings
Dental countdown: 4. Juicy stuff from re: The Auditors on SocGen. Latest news out of France has Finance Minister Christine’s Lagarde’s report saying that in addition to controls being lax, (duh!), someone who understand the controls should have never been … Continue reading
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Tagged hostages, insider threat, internal auditing, scooters, socgen, war
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Data Privacy Day
To appropriately observe Data Privacy Day, I will not ask you how it is hanging.That is strictly a matter between you and whatever hangs off you. Photo of sloth having its privacy violated from sfPhotocraft.
Segregation of Obscurity
From Forbes account of the Societe Generale billion dollar fraud: “It’s Nick Leeson, the story is exactly the same,” said Celent’s Pierron. “We have a trader who trades futures, or derivatives, who hides his losses by using weaknesses in the … Continue reading
The One In Five 