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Economist.com - Confessions of a Risk Manager

2008-08-11 08:42:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...Confessions of a Risk Manager In the article a risk manager for a major financial institution talks about managing risks and how the risk department was viewed as an obstacle by the rest of the business. I'll just quote a section here so you can see that governance roles, especially those involving trade-offs of risk vs. return are difficult...
 
Tags: risk, risk manager, risk factors, risk-takers, business, business line, risk managers, risk department, business lines
 
 
 
 
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TSA Misses the Point, Again

2008-01-29 15:13:57 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Confessions of a TSA Agent ": The traveling public has no idea that the changes the TSA makes come as orders sent down directly from Washington D.C. Those orders may have reasons, but we little screeners at a screening checkpoint will never be told what the background might be. We get told to do something, and just as in the military, we are...
 
Tags: tsa, tsa screeners, tsa agent, tsa document checker, screeners, passenger ids, passenger, screeners inspect, airport
 
 
 
 
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Confessions of a Caller-ID spoofer

2008-02-13 13:47:02 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
He spoofed the HR director's work phone number, then the number of that guy's boss, before moving up to a vice president, and finally, the CEO. Says he had no choice. He also says "this thing that I did is bad and should be outlawed." He even spoofed a White House number. Fascinating full interview
 
Tags: vice president, white house, boss, guy, phone, director, ceo, bad, interview
 
 
 
 
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Confessions of a caller-ID spoofer

2008-02-14 00:00:00 by Paul McNamara in Network World on Security
 
He spoofed the HR directors work phone number, then the number of that guys boss, before moving up to a vice president, and finally, the CEO. Says he had no choice. He also says "this thing that I did is bad and should be outlawed
 
Tags: vice president, guys boss, bad, ceo, directors, choice, phone
 
 
 
 
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Confessions of a caller-ID spoofer

2008-02-15 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
When a man's former employer wouldn't take his phone calls about commissions that he felt were owed him, he turned to caller-ID spoofing to masquerade as the HR director, his boss, a vice president and even the CEO. Then the calls got through
 
Tags: calls, phone calls, vice president, caller-id, boss, masquerade, director, employer, ceo
 
 
 
 
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In defense of Caller-ID spoofing

2008-03-06 00:00:00 by Paul McNamara in Network World on Security
 
It's not me mounting the defense, mind you. However, I thought it worth noting that a pair of recent columns -- "Confessions of a Caller-ID spoofer" and "Caller-ID spoofing burns fire equipment company" -- generated significant reader reaction, not all of it in lockstep condemnation of the practice
 
Tags: caller-id, significant reader reaction, caller-id spoofer, defense, recent columns, lockstep condemnation, worth, confessions, practice
 
 
 
 
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Information risk management, and lessons-learned in the financial industry

2008-08-19 00:00:00 by Paul Stamp in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...Confessions of a Risk Manager", in which a risk manager from a global bank uses 20-20 hindsight to look at "what went wrong" in the lead-up to the credit crunch and the ensuing fallout. I won't pretend to understand all the ins and outs of financial derivatives, but there were some points raised that anyone in the IT security space can...
 
Tags: information risk management, financial industry, risk manager, financial derivatives, credit crunch, security space, global bank, pretend, lead-up
 
 
 
 
 
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