There seems to be no notification that these files are publicly available and no web page listing all the submissions. Therefore, unless you know they are there, you won’t find them. But you can find them all through Google using this search string “NOI site:http://www.nist.gov/itl/upload/”
Filed under: government by Russell on Thursday, September 30, 2010
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The New York Times has a story, “Fatal Crashes of Airplanes Decline 65% Over 10 Years:” …part of the explanation certainly lies in the payoff from sustained efforts by American and many foreign airlines to identify and eliminate small problems that are common precursors to accidents. If only we did the same for security. This [...]
Filed under: Doing it Differently by adam on Thursday, September 30, 2010
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James Reason’s entire career was full of mistakes. Most of them were other people’s. And while we all feel that way, in his case, it was really true. As a professor of psychology, he made a career of studying human errors and how to prevent them. He has a list of awards that’s a full [...]
Filed under: Science of Risk Management by adam on Thursday, September 23, 2010
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@pogowasright pointed to “HOW many patient privacy breaches per month?:” As regular readers know, I tend to avoid blogging about commercial products and am leery about reporting results from studies that might be self-serving, but a new paper from FairWarning has some data that I think are worth mentioning here. In their report, they provide [...]
Filed under: Data Analysis, measurement, Reports and Data by adam on Friday, September 17, 2010
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The Securosis 2010 Data Security Survey results are out! http://bit.ly/aR4MuY Go, go and be NewSchool! Seriously, don’t spend anymore time here, click the link!
Filed under: data, Data Analysis by alex on Wednesday, September 15, 2010
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Some guy recently posted a strangely self-defeating link/troll/flame in an attempt to (I think) argue with Alex and/or myself regarding the relevance or lack thereof of ISACA’s CRISC certification. Now given that I think he might have been doing it to drive traffic to his CRISC training site, I won’t show him any link love [...]
Filed under: Amusements, careers by Chandler on Tuesday, September 14, 2010 | Social tagging: CRISC
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@GeorgeResse pointed out this article http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/five-facts-every-cloud-computing-pro-should-know-174 from @DavidLinthicum today. And from a Cloud advocate point of view I like four of the assertions. But his point about Cloud Security is off: “While many are pushing back on cloud computing due to security concerns, cloud computing is, in fact, as safe as or better than most [...]
Filed under: Cloud, Science of Risk Management by alex on Tuesday, September 14, 2010 | Social tagging: Cloud > risk management
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Richard Bejtlich has a post responding to an InformationWeek article written by Michael Healey, ostensibly about end user security. Richard upbraids Michael for writing the following: Too many IT teams think of security as their trump card to stop any discussion of emerging tech deemed too risky… Are we really less secure than we were [...]
Filed under: argument, Reports and Data by alex on Sunday, September 12, 2010
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CSO Online has an article based on an unlinked Forrester study that claims: The survey of 2,803 IT decision-makers worldwide found improving business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities is the number one priority for small and medium businesses and the second highest priority for enterprises. (emphasis mine). The WTF Pie Chart Says:
Filed under: Amusements by alex on Friday, September 10, 2010
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Hey everyone! Pete Lindstrom will be giving us his “Risk 2.0″ presentation tomorrow via webex at 10:30 EST. I’ve seen the deck, and it will be a great preso. Topic: Risk Analysis Date: Thursday, September 9, 2010 Time: 10:30 am, Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00) Meeting Number: 748 861 569 Meeting Password: risk?whatrisk? ——————————————————- [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized by alex on Wednesday, September 8, 2010
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