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Hedge Funds Semantics

2006-08-25 01:48:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...strategies, and are usually greatly leveraged... All for the pursuit of extraordinary profits. A lot of hedge funds have come and gone and the survival rate is not encouraging. So why are they called "hedge" funds in the first place When we hear the word "hedge" we usually think of protection and safety. In finance, a hedge, usually in the...
 
Tags: hedge, hedge funds, hedge funds act, funds, conventional funds, assets result, assets, risky investments, conventional assets
 
 
 
 
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Speaking of Security Podcast #54

2007-03-19 00:00:00 by Podcast Producers in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...strategies and solutions available that address corporate concerns and enable organizations to protect confidential data from unintended exposure? Paul Joyal interviews Security Analyst Jon Oltsik of Enterprise Strategy Group to get some answers. You may also catch Jon on an RSA Web Seminar: Real-World Strategies for Protecting Your Data for...
 
Tags: protect confidential data, data, rsa web seminar, real-world strategies, key strategies, enterprise strategy, helpful information, enable organizations, listendownload
 
 
 
 
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The C-I-A Triad weighed and found wanting

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2007-04-12 04:54:18 by Perry Carpenter in Security Renaissance
...strategies thereby allowing our competitors to prepare counter strategies Integrity : Completeness, wholeness, and readability of information and quality of being unchanged from a previous state.A simple example of a loss of integrity would be an employee modifying the body text of an email so as to create a false record of events (i.e. to...
 
Tags: information security, information, parkerian hexad, parkerian hexad model, control information, principles, security principles, personal health information, parkerian hexad augments
 
 
 
 
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Should We Treat Contractors The Same as Employees?

2008-03-26 13:47:43 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
 
...strategies we can apply to reduce the Frequency of Loss Events for our populations (W2, 1099). Now for any threat community, we can do one of three things 1.) Reduce the Frequency of Contact This is really either blocking, cordoning, obfuscation, what have you. For W2s and 1099s our ability to reduce Frequency of Contact may be limited 2.)...
 
Tags: threat, threat communities, threat agent applies, threat agents, threat event results, threat community, employees, risk tolerance, risk
 
 
 
 
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Layered Security: Solving the Cube

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2008-05-04 01:06:31 by JJ in Security Uncorked
...strategies for securing the network. And, usually, were talking about these as good strategies. However, with more and more security stuff on the market, the layered security solutions are starting to lose some of their value Why? Well, the problem with layered security is that we tend to assume if Layer X isnt providing a particular...
 
Tags: security, email security, security products, security solutions, solution, solution does-, security fundamentals, security solution, basic security functions
 
 
 
 
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Hindering Reverse Engineering: Thinking Outside the Box

2008-05-22 06:22:47 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
Protecting application software from reverse engineering and piracy is key to ensuring the integrity of intellectual property and critical infrastructures. Unorthodox protection strategies can help mitigate these types of attacks. Such strategies must include random, dynamic protections to complicate the ease with which attackers can overcome...
 
Tags: strategies, unorthodox protection strategies, overcome standard approaches, dynamic protections, intellectual property, application software, reverse, critical infrastructures, include random
 
 
 
 
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Q&A with Doug McClure: What Makes BSM Successful?

2008-07-15 19:02:39 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
 
...strategies for companies and how his stint in the U.S. Navy helped shape his future passion for BSM ScienceLogic: Can you share any of the strategies/advice that you give to companies embarking on their BSM journeys Doug McClure: Well, first theyve got to have a BSM strategy. Nearly all the clients I talk to or hear about wanting to do BSM do...
 
Tags: management, service management database, management tools, service management mentality, business service management, business service, business service impact, mission services management, database
 
 
 
 
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Risk Management Lessons from the Mortgage Meltdown

2007-12-14 16:54:17 by Chris McClean in Security & Risk Management
 
...strategies or a lack of commitment to all stakeholders. Case in point, the Wall Street Journal questioned how clients will ultimately react knowing that Goldman Sachs profited greatly by betting against products the company continued to sell them Widespread risk management failures will get legislators attention. Its still early to tell how...
 
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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Misconceptions about outsourcing security

2007-12-13 14:05:54 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...strategies of the firm and building from there. It is appropriate to plan for some quick wins but it takes time for the outsourcing relationship to mature. Companies that have successfully outsourced security operations typically report that it takes them six to eighteen months to really normalize the outsourcing relationship Outsourcing...
 
Tags: security processes, establish security processes, security, processes, security controls, security managers cost, cost, security operations, security services
 
 
 
 
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Quantitative Analysis = "Highly" Technical Analysis (?)

2007-02-07 09:34:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant