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Wakeup Call for Risk Management

2008-09-19 10:11:09 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...consequence systems Non-caveat emptor: Has IT security really done the worst case consequence analysis, attack graphs, and vulnerability analysis to know when putting more eggs in a supposedly stronger basket aggregates risks to an unacceptable level? Or are you depending only on vendor claims about some black box appliance equivalent of a...
 
Tags: risk management, risk management debacle, risk management failure, failure, risk management realistic, business risk management, risk management models, risk, risk management situations
 
 
 
 
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Making Risk Measures Agree with Accounting 100%

2006-12-26 05:27:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...consequence, they expect the results form the risk software to be consistent with accounting results to the last cent. I guess this is the ideal state that everyone wants to achieve but is this really necessary Though related, I believe that risk measurement and accounting are serving different purposes. Risk measurement need not be exact...
 
Tags: risk, risk software, software, risk measurement, values, exact market values, exact, exact cent, cent
 
 
 
 
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Combating Computer

2007-08-01 19:16:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...consequence is a necessary evil to clean your computer of unwanted adware and spyware. You should choose an adware and spyware cleaner that can also work proactively by preventing future accidental installation of these nuisances Adware and spyware cleaners work like your anti virus programs except that these particular cleaners target...
 
Tags: personal computer system, system, computer, spyware, anti spyware program, spyware creators, spyware cleaners, computer system, adware
 
 
 
 
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RSA Crypto Panel: Martin Hellman on 0.01% Events

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2008-04-10 00:04:00 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
...consequence don't necessarily address every risk as seriously as they did early one He also talked about The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable and gave several excellent examples of how people underestimate the impact of low-probability, high-impact (even catastrophic) events The parallel to the issues of Internet Security are...
 
Tags: probability, low probability events, hellman, martin hellman, low, martin, security, events, non-security folks
 
 
 
 
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LPL Financial reports eighteen compromised logons

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2008-05-20 08:56:31 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...consequence of the breach We also are unaware of any personal instance of identity theft related to these incidents LPL learned of the first incident on July 16, 2007 and took the following actions: (1) notified law enforcement; (2) notified our primary regulator, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority; (3) investigated the situation;...
 
Tags: lpl financial, lpl, lpl financial recently, lpl recently, login information, information, information security governance, information privacy, data
 
 
 
 
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Dan Geer on Security, Monoculture, Metrics, Evolution, Etc.

2008-05-27 06:23:23 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...consequence; either you are sick of them by now or you are scribbling down your own as I speak. The bigger question is this -- how much security do we want A world without failure is a world without freedom. A world without the possibility of sin is a world without the possibility of righteousness. A world without the possibility of crime is...
 
Tags: world, security, dan geer, security geeks, bigger, bigger question, possibility, l0pht reunion, metaphysical question
 
 
 
 
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Axcess Financial reports stolen laptop to New Hampshire AG

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2008-05-28 11:45:44 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...consequence"? This seems like a very poor choice of words, in my opinion. Affected customers may beg to differ It is highly unlikely any information has been breached because of password protection security measures Evan] Come on! Password protection (OS-level) in and of itself certainly does not make a breach "highly unlikely There are no...
 
Tags: axcess, axcess financial, axcess financial services, breach description, breach, worst breach notifications, information, personal information, hampshire
 
 
 
 
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Bubblicious

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2008-07-15 21:26:02 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
...consequence. Additional massive irrational lending is caused by "reinforcement" of foolish behavior, caused by unwise accounting convention in a manner discussed later in this letter. It is hard to be wise when the messages which drive you are wrong messages provided by a mal-designed system In chemistry, if you mix items that explode in...
 
Tags: bad, widespread bad loans, letter, charlie munger, charlie, system, social proof, munger, volatile combination
 
 
 
 
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Keeping corporate secrets - the data centric security approach

2008-07-28 20:13:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...consequence if the data is undecipherable Could not have said it better - and I could not agree more
 
Tags: data, security, address data, gargantuan data breach, security patches, secure, secure sockets layer, data-centric, security technology
 
 
 
 
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Security Matters: Airport Pasta-Sauce Interdiction Considered Harmful

2008-09-18 18:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security