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Motoprox
Yesterday I was barreling down the concrete slab choked with tractor-trailers and nitro-burnining funny trucks laden with oily 2x4s and spent joint compound jugs, I was engaging my left brain in random problem solving (“Resolved: The world is as random … Continue reading
Waffle are Just Pancakes with Little Squares On ‘Em
I’ve been working on something, but I don’t know if it will make by race time in Shanghai. In the meantime, the most important part of internal auditing is “production value.” And we know what that means.
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The Red, Yellow and Green Legos of Judgment
I’m out here in Coyote and Roadrunner land, knee deep in internal auditing. I co-presented yesterday on privacy, as a co-author of an Institute of Internal Auditing publication.It’s been a interesting couple of days, driven in part by the isolation … Continue reading
Invincible
New York Magazine article “The Young Invincibles: A Generation Uninsured” discusses the way uninsured 20-30 year olds in New York deal with health risks (link and commentary from Concurring Opinions.) The article is interesting study of people who do not … Continue reading
Auditing Privacy Part 2 – Risk Assessment of Data Loss
The easy way to assess privacy risks is to focus on the impact of data theft to the organization by including the private data as a corporate asset. There are well documented methods to identify the vulnerabilities in means of … Continue reading
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Too important to be left to the generals
Interesting discussion on the secret language of security. Which shovetails nicely into a panel discussion I saw yesterday. An assortment of CSOs and a Forrester analyst discussed the future of security. Essentially all the tech stuff is being outsourced, and … Continue reading
I don’t give a damn about my bad reputation
No. No. Not me. I was meditating on reputation risk the other day, and behold, the Daily Dave belches forth the documents I sought. (I remembered something on Emergent Chaos on this topic, but hadn’t dug deep enough into their … Continue reading
Grackles in a Pancake Mine!
This morning, city officials decided to shut down a significant portionof Austin’s central business district due to the discovery of a covey ofdead birds. Meanwhile, Gotham panics when confronted with a strange pancake smell. I’m not going to second guess … Continue reading
The One In Five 