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Category Archives: General
The Personalization of Risk
December 19, 2011 – 6:00 am
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I realized when I received several comments regarding my September 12, 2011 column “Risk Mismanagement – Scoring vs. Monte Carlo vs. Scoring” from Doug Hubbard and others, that I hadn’t been clear enough in my description of what I had termed “subjective risk.” It also seems that…
The Security of Fools
November 21, 2011 – 6:00 am
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No, I’m NOT saying that security professionals are fools … far from it. But many of the folks whom they serve may well be overconfident in their judgments about security. Overconfidence in the face of undisputable evidence to the contrary is described in Daniel Kahneman’s article “The…
Normative Cyber Security
October 24, 2011 – 6:00 am
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Joel Brenner’s new book, America the Vulnerable – Inside the New Threat Matrix of Digital Espionage, Crime, and Warfare (The Penguin Press, 2011), is another book of the genre of Richard Clarke’s several volumes of non-fiction, such as his most recent book, published with Robert Knake,…
Will Cloud Security Drive You Insane?
October 17, 2011 – 6:00 am
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First, the transparency … I have known Jim Reavis, co-founder of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), for a dozen years or so. He is a true visionary. He met with me before creating the CSA and asked me what I thought. I told him to go for it. He did and has had remarkable success [...] …
Google Plus – Disk Space Minus, Spam Double Minus
July 25, 2011 – 6:00 am
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Google’s foray into Facebook’s space hit an unfortunate glitch during its “field trial” … the system ran out of disk space and was down for more than an hour and those users, who were affected, received a deluge of emails … see Graham Cluley’s post “Google+ runs out of…