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Is Risk-Based Security Really Possible?

2007-07-26 20:42:00 by Bryan in practical risk management
 
...unpredictable, which makes them poor candidates for mathematical calculations How does one calculate the likelihood of a security breach? The spectrum of threats is too broad and too unpredictable to have any hope of doing this. If you were just hacked by an outsider, or fell victim to a disgruntled employee, or made a simple mistake and...
 
Tags: security, information security, information security decisions, security management, security breach, breach, risk, wrong, ale hopelessly wrong
 
 
 
 
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Running Government Finances Like a Bank

2006-08-08 08:56:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...unpredictable maturities), and implicit contingent liabilities Governments should also push for the development of their domestic currency capital markets. A developed capital market would mean that there are a lot of investors and variety of issued securities. Development of derivatives markets will also be beneficial as investors are more...
 
Tags: public debt, public debt management, government, debt, public debt portfolio, government debt, financial, financial markets, issue
 
 
 
 
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NGO Security Scenario #21 - The Heat is On

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2008-03-02 18:30:00 by NGO Security in NGO Security
 
...unpredictable. Click the play button to see what happens next What are the primary threats? How much risk is there? What actions would you take? As the smoke gets thicker, it becomes difficult to breath. Would placing a wet bandanna over your face help? Share your thoughts by clicking on COMMENTS below Note : A PowerPoint presentation...
 
Tags: wildland fire community, wildland, wet bandanna, south america, pdf format, program manager, play button, humanitarian community, primary threats
 
 
 
 
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Computers plus people equals risk, tech expert says

2008-03-27 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b03be4 in Network World on Security
 
Companies are relying too much on technology to run their businesses, a trend that doesn't account for unpredictable situations that humans still deal with better than machines, a technology expert said Thursday
 
Tags: technology expert, technology, unpredictable situations, businesses, humans, account, companies, deal, machines
 
 
 
 
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Software Security Metrics and Commentary - Part 2

2007-10-23 20:31:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...unpredictable ways, and we still rely on sample and testing for analysis of a batch of materials The Quality of Protection workshop at the CCS conference is probably the best place to look for research in this area. Previous papers from the workshop can be found here . This years conference and workshop is starting next week, if you're in...
 
Tags: security metrics, software security metrics, metrics, software, metrics framework, metric, upstream sdl metrics, concrete metric, paper steve bellovin
 
 
 
 
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When Too Much Security Means No Security at All

2007-12-24 12:30:19 by Posted By: Paul Proctor, Research VP in IT Leaders - Security and Risk Management
 
...unpredictable, and sometimes even the exact opposite of what we're hoping to achieve. Media reports out of the United Kingdom this week seem to offer a spectacular example of this principle at work in the world of enterprise security. The details are still emerging, but what's come out so far should be a wake-up call for security and risk...
 
Tags: policy, security policy guidelines, enterprise security, enterprise security framework, security, enterprise, official hmrc policy, security policy process, effective enterprise security
 
 
 
 
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Unpredictable IT means unreliable business, survey says

2008-06-17 00:00:00 by Denise Dubie in Network World on Security
 
HP commissioned the Economist Intelligence Unit to survey 1,125 IT professionals from 20 countries about their views on IT risk and how it relates to business risk
 
Tags: business risk, economist intelligence unit, risk, survey, views, professionals, countries
 
 
 
 
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Unpredictable IT means unreliable business

2008-06-17 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
HP-sponsored survey finds unchecked changes within IT lead to outages and security breaches that impact the business
 
Tags: security breaches, business, outages, lead, survey, impact
 
 
 
 
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ScienceLogics 5-Year Anniversary

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2008-08-20 22:39:16 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
...unpredictable. We knew that an appliance model would address all of these variables and save a lot of time on how quickly customers could achieve immediate value The harder decisions were around actually starting the business, assessing the market and of course determining the product pricing EM7 completely flips the traditional model of...
 
Tags: em7 completely flips, em7, network management, network management tools, em7 meta-appliance product, sciencelogic team, team, front, product front-end