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CEP, Politics, and Decision Making

2008-09-29 09:36:07 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...decision making process However, this approach risks alienating folks who take their politics serious or have other concerns. For that reason, I am going to go another, less political, direction on The CEP Blog. I will not blog on the US presidential election here In my next series of blog posts I will discuss how asymmetric event processing...
 
Tags: politics, blog, cep blog, complex events, presidential politics, blog posts, asymmetric situational awareness, presidential election, complex event
 
 
 
 
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What is a Wise Risk Decision Worth? or ISO 27001 KPIs Follow Up

2008-12-03 15:47:11 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
 
...decision (risk-vetted) had been made - then adoption of this best international practice will assist in providing these answers So working with our above thoughts a little here - if we agree with Shrdlu that the only value of an ISO implementation can only be expressed if we can say how said implementation affected our overall security risk -...
 
Tags: iso, iso google, iso adoption, iso implementation, iso folks, iso adoption helps, risk, google iso compliance, iso implementation differs
 
 
 
 
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Economist.com - Confessions of a Risk Manager

2008-08-11 08:42:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...decision-making process. In contrast to the law, where two sides make an equal-and-opposite argument that is fairly judged, in banks there is always a bias towards one side of the argument. The business line was more focused on getting a transaction approved than on identifying the risks in what it was proposing. The risk factors were a small...
 
Tags: risk, risk manager, risk factors, risk-takers, business, business line, risk managers, risk department, business lines
 
 
 
 
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The Economics of Finding and Fixing Vulnerabilities in Distributed Systems

2008-11-18 22:47:55 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...decisions, legacy contracts, and solution attempts to yesteryear's problems. Today the normal Information Security budget is just a legacy artifact from bygone years when the network was the purported greatest vulnerability. If you were around in 1995, you remember the great gnashing of gears as the enterprises opened up their networks,...
 
Tags: information security, information, information security spends, safety information security, versus information security, information security budgets, information security budget, software security, software security space
 
 
 
 
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Industry trends - Survey results on Risk Management

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2007-11-26 13:11:00 by Ryan Shopp in practical risk management
...decision making one of the challenges that must be mastered to achieve value is integrating security strategy across the enterprise. Rather than approach security in an uncoordinated and functionalized fashion, businesses need a top-down approach coordinated by a senior executive to optimize the effectiveness and efficiency of the overall...
 
Tags: risk management, enterprise, enterprise security risks, security, approach security, enterprise risk management, survey, survey results, security program
 
 
 
 
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Midazolam as a Non-Lethal Weapon

2008-07-18 11:28:19 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...decision to administer Versed is based purely on a paramedic decision, not a police decision," Slovis said. It's up to the officer to call an ambulance and determine if a person is in a condition called excited delirium. "I don't know if I would use the word diagnosing, but they are assessing the situation and saying, 'This person is not...
 
Tags: decision, paramedic decision, police decision, police, police function, view, view delirium, delirium, medical emergency
 
 
 
 
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Admins , Good Guys or "I am NOT an Idiot!"

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2008-07-29 15:19:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
...decisions at a bank, not a sysadmin. If a banker makes a wrong decision, his will suffer. If he is an idiot, he will most likely make the wrong decision. However, it is NOT the admin's decision to make - he does not "own" the business. BTW, the fact that it is a city, not a bank, and it is taxpayer funded, does not change it Am I "anti-admin"...
 
Tags: terry childs, childs, guys, admins, terry childs story, bad boss, boss, underneath management, management
 
 
 
 
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CEP and Analytics

2008-08-19 14:09:59 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...decision based on existing data Quotingthe Wikipedia author(s) further Common applications of Analytics include the study of business data using statistical analysis in order to discover and understand historical patterns with an eye to predicting and improving business performance in the future. Also, some people use the term to denote the...
 
Tags: analytics, wikipedia author, quotingthe wikipedia author, fraud analytics, author, predictive analytics, analytics include, business data, business
 
 
 
 
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So Logically, If She Weighs The Same As A DuckShes A Witch!

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2008-09-18 14:59:47 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
...decision at the time it was made. We want to bring in things from other professions that are useful, but at times we do view things outside our profession with false correlation to our own (unfortunately for those who write these sorts of articles, financial risk is completely different than operational risk). We also have the tendency to...
 
Tags: risk, financial risk, poor risk management, operational risk, outcome, exploit outcome, probability, qualitative models, models