Tag Archives: risk
Security, Safety and the “Wall of Constricted Thinking”
September 23, 2013 – 6:00 am
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There is an interesting article by Jack Hitt in “The Idea” column in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times of August 18, 2013. It is about how a newly-minted astrobiologist, Meredith Perry, came up with an idea for charging devices wirelessly by combing through concepts from a…
Run More Risk Models Faster? … Maybe
May 29, 2013 – 6:00 am
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Jim Goodnight, the co-founder and CEO of the SAS Institute has suggested (see Penny Crosman’s March 28, 2013 article “The Trouble with Banks’ Risk Models: Q&A with the Chief of SAS,” at…
Risk and Human Frailty
May 9, 2013 – 6:00 am
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My September 12, 2011 BlogInfoSec column “Risk Management – Scoring vs. Monte Carlo vs. Scoring” was about the subjectivity of risk assessments, where the term “subjectivity” was defined as one’s personal view of particular risks. I received some considerable push-back from the likes…