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Whats with all of the new ads? Forbes, business and finance blog network

2008-05-06 00:23:46 by HASH0x8b52374 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Finance Blog Network . I received an invitation to join an elite list of 400 blogs handpicked by Forbes. They will syndicate content and sell advertising for the site. There are some other cool benefits that go along with the membership. I was very proud to be selected for this, but frankly was worried about too many ads. If you get a chance,...
 
Tags: finance blog network, blog, forbes, ads, web site, site, forbes business, feed reader, elite list
 
 
 
 
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Brushing up on my math skills...

2006-07-21 04:38:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...finance topics. It covers Matrix Algebra, Differential and Integral Calculus, Probability, and Statistics. Other good books would be Hull's Options, Futures and Other Derivatives and Paul Wilmott on Quantitative Finance Tags: derivatives finance math quant books cfa
 
Tags: derivatives, topics, plain vanilla derivatives, discuss topics, quantitative finance topics, financial derivatives, quantitative finance, papers, research papers
 
 
 
 
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Utah Department of Administrative Services reports web site breach

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2008-03-17 11:34:28 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Finance Victims Citizens Number Affected 500 Types of Data personal information Breach Description Computer files containing the personal information of approximately 500 individuals may have been accessed by unauthorized persons during a security breach at the Utah Division of Finance Reference URL Deseret Morning News The Salt Lake...
 
Tags: utah, utah department, breach, utah division, information, personal information, department, utah attorney, breach description
 
 
 
 
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Hedge Funds Semantics

2006-08-25 01:48:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...finance, a hedge, usually in the form of derivatives, is used to protect an investment from loss. But it also limits the gains of the position as well. This makes potential earnings predictable and constant. Risk is eliminated since risk is defined as "uncertainty But looking at the hedging instrument individually, it is just as exposed to...
 
Tags: hedge, hedge funds, hedge funds act, funds, conventional funds, assets result, assets, risky investments, conventional assets
 
 
 
 
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Modelling Financial Risk Seminar

2006-08-01 02:13:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...Finance Centre and PRMIA . It is a course designed for Risk Management Professionals . It involves lectures by Dr. Elizabeth Sheedy and some computer workshops after each topic Topics for Discussion Introduction Measuring Risk Under the Normal Distribution Historical Simulations for Measuring Risk Monte Carlo Simulations for Measuring...
 
Tags: risk, risk management professionals, risk management, risk measurement, liquidity risk, model risk, singapore conference hall, singapore, initial topics
 
 
 
 
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12 Signs that Your Company is Already in the Cloud

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2008-04-25 19:14:19 by Craig Balding in Cloud Security
...Finance contacts you to confirm all the DVD readers are disabled - they are puzzled by the number of recurring credit card charges for Amazon (are the secretaries spreading out their orders for Lost DVDs again You are asked to authorise a network change ticket to send all outbound network traffic via the perimeter firewall, before being...
 
Tags: company, company car park, signs, cloud, company internet connection, telltale signs, credit card, credit card charges, security
 
 
 
 
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Whats driving the MSSP craze - critical, but non-core functions are fair game for outsourcing

2008-06-13 03:29:37 by HASH0x8bb419c in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Finance is an exception here. Security is a core function in finance, as the security of your money and information is core to a financial institutions function. However, at the mid-size level and below, financial institutions do outsource security. I have seen several MSSPs who specialize in this vertical. Lastly, I think the real battle...
 
Tags: critical, non-core, core, critical activities, non-core activities, activities, security, mssp, outsource core
 
 
 
 
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Daily Mail publisher admits to stolen laptop

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2008-07-05 12:55:49 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...finance director at Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers, and Martyn Hindley, his counterpart at sister company Northcliffe, said it was likely that the details had been erased by the thief Evan] How is the conclusion drawn? I don't see how there could be enough information to determine what the thief was likely to do From the letter...
 
Tags: information, personal information, daily mail publisher, daily mail, personal, store confidential information, laptop, personal data, laptop company computer
 
 
 
 
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The Perfect Storm

2008-07-17 07:15:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
...finance related However, it was always my feeling that the credit card/personal finance market would become saturated at some stage and the loosely -bound-but-still-very-organised-and-co-ordinated underground market would start to look elsewhere Essentially, the infrastructure is there for wide-scale information theft but the will wasn't...
 
Tags: information, information security, personal information, credit card details, credit card, company information, credit card theft, wide-scale information theft, credit card information
 
 
 
 
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Doomsday!?

2007-01-30 01:37:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant