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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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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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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
 
 
 
 
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Duke School of Law breach affects 3,200

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2007-12-06 11:37:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...decision on the part of the school the first intrusion occurred in early November, when a directory of foreign files was inserted into the site. Another set of files was deposited on Thanksgiving Day. We believe that nothing was done with these files until the attack began on the afternoon of Nov. 29 Comfyllama] Write access to the web...
 
Tags: school, duke school, breach, security, comfyllama social security, complete, breach description, complete security scan, security breach
 
 
 
 
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Laptop is stolen from Pfizer independent contractor

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2008-04-06 15:57:23 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...decision to notify affected individuals about the theft of the information and the steps they can take to minimize any potential impact Evan] Wise decision. I can think of more wise decisions Pfizer is planning to send notification letters to all affected individuals within the next few days Pfizer has arranged to provide all affected...
 
Tags: pfizer, 2nd pfizer breach, pfizer breach, evan pfizer, pfizer contractor, contractor, pfizer employees, laptop, time pfizer
 
 
 
 
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Risk Preferences in Chimpanzees and Bonobos

2008-04-17 06:20:51 by schneier in Schneier on Security