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Category Archives: InfoSec Economics
Agility and Risk Compensation: Exploring the Connection
June 9, 2008 – 6:00 am
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In my previous and inaugural column, I introduced the concept of a tradeoff between information security and agility, where agility was defined as “the capability to change with managed cost and speed.” Information security doesn’t necessarily have to be at odds with agility, but…
A Return to ROSI: The Economics of Security
May 23, 2008 – 6:00 am
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It has been interesting to observe that two posts on ROSI (return on security investment) have been on this web site’s most popular list for more than a month. And it is further of interest in that the two posts take somewhat opposing views, which is actually quite representative of the…
Fitting the CIA Triad in a Business Context: The Concept of Agile Security
May 20, 2008 – 6:00 am
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Last year, Harvard Business School Press published a very interesting book entitled IT Risk: Turning Business Threats into Competitive Advantage by George Westerman and Richard Hunter. Westerman is a Research Scientist at the Center for Information Systems Research at the MIT Sloan School of…
ROI: How Security Can Augment New Products and Services
April 28, 2008 – 6:00 am
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Rob Preston of InformationWeek writes in Down To Business: It’s Past Time To Elevate The Infosec Conversation:
More than 80% of the IT, security, and business executives RSA recently surveyed with IDC “admit that their organizations have shied away from business innovation…
ROSI: Security Returns?
March 10, 2008 – 6:01 am
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Two of the more controversial topics in information security are return on security investment (or ROSI) and the related subject of security metrics. I will talk to ROSI in this column and metrics in the next one.
There are a number of opponents to the ROSI approach. One is Jos Pols who, in his…
