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Acceptable risk in changing economic times

2008-10-06 00:00:00 by HASH0x84734e0 in Network World on Security
 
You know the game "chicken"? That describes what it feels like as companies push for more growth and innovation in a time of increasing economic uncertainty. Today's business landscape is like a volcanic field, with eruptions taking place left and right. Rising fuel and commodities costs have changed the equation for many businesses. The effects...
 
Tags: commodities costs, companies push, economic uncertainty, effects ripple, businesses, volcanic field, business landscape, risk, fuel
 
 
 
 
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What Are You Managing Towards? (And On Disproving Risk Management)

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2008-06-03 14:41:11 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
First, Id like to thank Steve McCalmont for including FAIR in his excellent article in the May 2008 ISSA Journal, Streamlining the Risk Management Process. Three quick things to anyone who has read it and is visiting our blog for the first time We dont believe that the goal of Quantitative Risk Analysis is to be precise. We believe the goal is...
 
Tags: management, risk management, term risk management, management focuses, management approach, risk management process, patch management, cost management, upper management
 
 
 
 
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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
 
Blogger: Dan Blum With the crisis in financial markets still unfolding, it is important to draw what lessons we can from the experience. Since the roots of the crisis lie in a monumental failure of risk management, its important to understand more about what happened, and then draw some parallels to our business risk management and IT risk...
 
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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One Mans Frustrations With Risk Management

2008-09-23 18:05:20 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
 
Chris, who is a male in Government C&A has a blog with a wonderful title: How is that Assurance Evidence Id love to have another blog even more specific - Ok, that Assurance is Evidence Of What, Exactly Today he has a great article called Whats the matter with Risk Management And in short, its everything. It pretty much sums up why I had to grow...
 
Tags: risk management, risk management methodologies, risk management approaches, risk, risk management methodology, risk management models, risk professionals focus, risk analysis, specific
 
 
 
 
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Risk Preferences in Chimpanzees and Bonobos

2008-04-17 06:20:51 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
I've already written about prospect theory, which explains how people approach risk. People tend to be risk averse when it comes to gains, and risk seeking when it comes to losses: Evolutionarily, presumably it is a better survival strategy to -- all other things being equal, of course -- accept small gains rather than risking them for larger...
 
Tags: risk preferences, risk, relative risk preferences, risk-prone behaviour, approach, people approach risk, people, losses, risk larger losses
 
 
 
 
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Risk Management and Analysis Standards Update

2008-06-17 16:51:27 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
 
Were kind of having a big day today. Three things are going on that I wanted to update you on. A webinar reminder/update, a standards announcement concerning FAIR and Risk Management, and RMI has a new website CISCO WEBINAR UPDATE First, Jacks Webinar with Cisco is Thursday . If you were lucky enough to get a slot, be sure to catch it. If you...
 
Tags: risk management, risk management departments, risk management effort, standards, risk, risk management efforts, risk management issues, security standards, risk management standards
 
 
 
 
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Do you use Bloomberg for Risk Measurement?

2006-08-07 03:41:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
Bloomberg is holding a Market Risk Seminar this month. But before the details, here are my comments I've attended Bloomberg seminars before and there is usually a sales pitch somewhere. Looking at the event's lineup of speakers, 4 out of 5 speakers are from Bloomberg (an Algo risk solution is embedded in Bloomberg). Although the topics may...
 
Tags: bloomberg, bloomberg users, trust bloomberg, bloomberg seminar, bloomberg seminars, bloomberg functionalities, details, seminar details, seminar
 
 
 
 
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Is Risk Management a People Problem?

2008-03-10 15:45:47 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
 
In todays post, Im going to link you to a blog post by someone who used the phrase Security is a People Problem. I hesitate to do so, because some people might think that Im going to write an aha, youre wrong and Im smart article here. Thats not my intention. Its just that the author used the phrase in a sense that I agree with but it made me...
 
Tags: risk management, risk, people, risk management issue, impacts people, security, security technology, risk tolerance, people lessons
 
 
 
 
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Risk Management Lessons from the Mortgage Meltdown

2007-12-14 16:54:17 by Chris McClean in Security & Risk Management
 
Great article this morning in the Wall Street Journal about Goldman Sachs performance during the credit meltdown. The company has expectations of record income this year, while competitors are faltering left and right There are three important issues in this story and in the sub-prime crisis in general that all good risk management...
 
Tags: risk, risk exposure, risk management decisions, intelligent risk, risk-savvy media, risk management professionals, goldman sachs, goldman sachs performance, risk management information
 
 
 
 
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Making Risk Measures Agree with Accounting 100%

2006-12-26 05:27:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant