Disclaimer: The opinions of the columnists are their own and not necessarily those of their employer.

Tag Archives: ROSI

$1000: Apply for Gordon Prize in Managing Cybersecurity Resources

November 10, 2008 – 6:00 am – As part of the University of Maryland’s Great Expectation’s Campaign, Dr. Lawrence Gordon endowed a prize for the best essay in Managing Cybersecurity Resources. Dr. Gordon has been very generous with his time in answering questions regarding on information security economics for…
By | Posted in InfoSec Economics | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Building an Access Control Framework (pt. 1)

April 16, 2008 – 6:00 am – From what I have seen of Identity Management tools, they are more about management than identity, which is fine, once you have solved the the challenge of effectively identifying all the users of your sensitive data. But, slick as they can be, an IdM tool may only automate your existing…
By | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , | Comments (0)

ROSI: Security Returns?

March 10, 2008 – 6:01 am – 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…
By | Posted in InfoSec Economics | Also tagged , | Comments (5)