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The core truth of risk

2008-03-11 11:00:50 by Frank Cassano in BlogInfoSec.com
 
...Risk Rack column. Being the first column I thought it would a good idea to use it to start simply and slowly. First I wanted to note that this column is intended for information technology risk management professionals, information technology auditors, information technology management and anybody else who may be interested in the field of...
 
Tags: risk, risk management, information technology risk, risk rack column, risk analysis, analysis, manage risk, core truth, webster defines risk
 
 
 
 
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Is Risk Management a People Problem?

2008-03-10 15:45:47 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
 
...risk and how organizations can become more effective. Weve been thinking very hard about metrics and measurement and governance and compliance and assurance and so on and so forth. And one thing hit me funny today within that context, its the mention of the axiom Security is a People Problem In his article, What can CISOs learn from the...
 
Tags: risk management, risk, people, risk management issue, impacts people, security, security technology, risk tolerance, people lessons
 
 
 
 
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Risk Preferences in Chimpanzees and Bonobos

2008-04-17 06:20:51 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...risk. People tend to be risk averse when it comes to gains, and risk seeking when it comes to losses: Evolutionarily, presumably it is a better survival strategy to -- all other things being equal, of course -- accept small gains rather than risking them for larger ones, and risk larger losses rather than accepting smaller losses. Lions chase...
 
Tags: risk preferences, risk, relative risk preferences, risk-prone behaviour, approach, people approach risk, people, losses, risk larger losses
 
 
 
 
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Making Risk Measures Agree with Accounting 100%

2006-12-26 05:27:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...risk software to compliment financial reporting (accounting). Instead of being used solely by the risk department, even financial controllers use it. This is due to the current trend of making financial reporting reflective of the firm's economic value based on the risks it is taking ( IAS 39 and even Basel II). As a consequence, they expect...
 
Tags: risk, risk software, software, risk measurement, values, exact market values, exact, exact cent, cent
 
 
 
 
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Do you use Bloomberg for Risk Measurement?

2006-08-07 03:41:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...Risk Seminar this month. But before the details, here are my comments I've attended Bloomberg seminars before and there is usually a sales pitch somewhere. Looking at the event's lineup of speakers, 4 out of 5 speakers are from Bloomberg (an Algo risk solution is embedded in Bloomberg). Although the topics may sound relevant, they're just...
 
Tags: bloomberg, bloomberg users, trust bloomberg, bloomberg seminar, bloomberg seminars, bloomberg functionalities, details, seminar details, seminar
 
 
 
 
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IT Risk Management

2008-03-28 13:09:26 by Marc Othersen in Security & Risk Management
 
...risk management is a nebulous topic at best. There are many different ideas as to what risk means and how it should to be applied within an IT organization. In an effort to bring some consistency and clarity to this discipline, Forrester is developing an IT risk management framework. Once developed, the framework will help IT organizations...
 
Tags: risk management, risk, risk management framework, risk events, major risk, risk assessment, key risk indicators, framework, risk response
 
 
 
 
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Risk Management Lessons from the Mortgage Meltdown

2007-12-14 16:54:17 by Chris McClean in Security & Risk Management
 
...risk management professionals know, and should keep in mind as often as possible Accepting risk can offer substantial competitive advantages. While some argue that Goldman Sachs got lucky on many of its assumptions, the company has a history of aggressive, intelligent risk taking. The lesson here, whether evaluating investments, business...
 
Tags: risk, risk exposure, risk management decisions, intelligent risk, risk-savvy media, risk management professionals, goldman sachs, goldman sachs performance, risk management information
 
 
 
 
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Communicating about risk - part 1

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2008-05-05 18:12:14 by JonesJ in RiskAnalys.is
...risk. In this weeks post, Ill talk about risk qualifiers that can be critical in helping management understand the true nature of some risk scenarios I can live with this Lets say that youve done an analysis and the results look something like whats shown in the charts below (Ive included both a qualitative and a quantitative version At...
 
Tags: risk, effective, cost-effective risk management, fragile condition exists, condition, unstable condition, risk qualifiers, risk condition, risk chart perspective
 
 
 
 
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Modelling Financial Risk Seminar

2006-08-01 02:13:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...Risk Management Professionals . It involves lectures by Dr. Elizabeth Sheedy and some computer workshops after each topic Topics for Discussion Introduction Measuring Risk Under the Normal Distribution Historical Simulations for Measuring Risk Monte Carlo Simulations for Measuring Risk Stress Testing VaR in the Absence of Normality...
 
Tags: risk, risk management professionals, risk management, risk measurement, liquidity risk, model risk, singapore conference hall, singapore, initial topics
 
 
 
 
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2008 - The Year of IT Risk Management?

2008-01-04 13:23:00 by Ryan Shopp in practical risk management
 
...Risk Management (what I mean by "true" is the message is coming from companies who didn't adjust their marketing to be en vogue - e.g., SIEM products or Vulnerability Assessment products Before IT Risk Management was "cool" Securityworks has been out their working away on it (for over 4 years now One of my favorites that highlights this...
 
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