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Your Brain on Fear

2008-01-09 06:10:54 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...evolutionary primacy of the brain's fear circuitry makes it more powerful than the brain's reasoning faculties. The amygdala sprouts a profusion of connections to higher brain regions -- neurons that carry one-way traffic from amygdala to neocortex. Few connections run from the cortex to the amygdala, however. That allows the amygdala to...
 
Tags: fear, brain, amygdala, amygdala hobbles, fear circuitry, amygdala sprouts, brain regions, overrule reason, cortex
 
 
 
 
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Security Evolution

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2008-05-19 17:42:16 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
...evolutionary adaptation for attackers to go around or through the 1995 defenses. Its not about SOAP going through the firewall, its about never bothering to secure the apps and the data. Its like saying to your opponent, remember the how the Detroit Lions played defense in a certain game in 1995, we were just going to do that So with the...
 
Tags: security, information security, faith based security, security issues asp, asp, security issues, security architecture, ws-security, security architectures
 
 
 
 
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Are fund managers really overcompensated?

2006-08-11 07:55:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...evolutionary process I am aware that competition forces fees in a downward trend and compensation will surely follow. But I still don't see the evidence of this happening at the moment based on the postings I see in jobs boards and the number of fresh grads wanting to go into the business (because it pays well I think it's all a matter of...
 
Tags: hedge funds cfa, hedge funds, managers, funds, hedge fund fees, forces, hedge fund, competition forces fees, fees
 
 
 
 
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Risky by association

2007-12-26 16:14:25 by Chris McClean in Security & Risk Management
 
...evolutionary, not revolutionary But the lesson is a good one. Its not just about managing outsourcers... its making sure they manage their outsourcers, and so on down the complex chain. Whether its product safety, social responsibility, or information security issues, supply chain management is getting more in-depth, and necessarily so, as...
 
Tags: responsibility, responsibility organization, oversee product quality, information security issues, security, quality, supply chain partners, social responsibility, epiphany
 
 
 
 
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Matrix Re-loaded

2007-12-16 17:20:22 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...evolutionary biologists to solve than computer scientists
 
Tags: deceptive security models, matrix, evolutionary biologists, computer scientists, security model, completely, solve, attack, hackosis
 
 
 
 
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Risk of Knowing Too Much About Risk

2008-03-06 06:24:50 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...evolutionary survival mechanism. In the presence of uncertainty, fear is a valuable defense. Our brains react emotionally, generate anxiety and tell us, "Remember the news report that showed what happened when those other kids took the bus? Don't put your kids on the bus The second way we process risk is analytical: we use probability and...
 
Tags: intuitive, intuitive risk processors, analytical, analytical rigor, intuitive response, brains process risk, brains react, images, dreadful images
 
 
 
 
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The Feeling and Reality of Security

2008-04-08 05:50:01 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...evolutionary sense. And most of the time, they work Most of the time -- and this is important -- our feeling of security matches the reality of security. Certainly, this is true of prehistory. Modern times are harder. Blame technology, blame the media, blame whatever. Our brains are much better optimized for the security trade-offs endemic to...
 
Tags: trade-offs, security trade-offs based, trade-offs intelligently, security trade-offs endemic, security trade-offs wrong, security trade-offs, security, endemic, security matches
 
 
 
 
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The Feeling and Reality of Security

2008-04-08 05:50:01 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...evolutionary sense. And most of the time, they work Most of the time -- and this is important -- our feeling of security matches the reality of security. Certainly, this is true of prehistory. Modern times are harder. Blame technology, blame the media, blame whatever. Our brains are much better optimized for the security trade-offs endemic to...
 
Tags: trade-offs, security trade-offs based, trade-offs intelligently, security trade-offs endemic, security trade-offs wrong, security trade-offs, security, endemic, security matches
 
 
 
 
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Security - Passive versus active response

2008-06-03 16:52:01 by HASH0x84718b4 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...evolutionary phase is to be able to prevent or block the dangerous or malicious event from taking place This active blocking mode though is often not as readily accepted at first by the market. Everyone is always afraid of blocking the wrong user, the wrong email message or other request. I think it is part of human nature that we inherently...
 
Tags: security, security conference, security technology, security solution, time database security, security vendors, database security, data access violations, violations
 
 
 
 
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Security - Passive versus active response

2008-06-03 17:51:52 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...evolutionary phase is to be able to prevent or block the dangerous or malicious event from taking place This active blocking mode though is often not as readily accepted at first by the market. Everyone is always afraid of blocking the wrong user, the wrong email message or other request. I think it is part of human nature that we inherently...
 
Tags: security, security conference, security technology, security solution, time database security, security vendors, database security, data access violations, violations