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:
If you don’t have time to develop a data-driven, business focused security strategy, we sympathize. It’s a lot of hard work. So here to help you is “What the fuck is my information security ‘strategy?’ “: Thanks, N!
It’s not just a 3d pie chart with lighting effects and reflection. Those are common. This one has been squished. It’s wider than it is tall. While I’m looking closely, isn’t “input validation” a superset of “buffer errors” “code injection” and “command injection?” You can get the “Application Security Trends report for Q1-Q2 2010” from [...]
First, thanks to everyone who took the unscientific, perhaps poorly worded survey. I appreciate you taking time to help out. I especially appreciate the feedback from the person who took the time to write in: “Learn the proper definition of “Control Systems” as in, Distributed Control Systems or Industrial Control systems. These are the places [...]
Using a dish full of marshmallows. We’re doing this with my oldest kids, and while I was reading up on it, I had to laugh out loud at the following: …now you have what you need to measure the speed of light. You just need to know a very fundamental equation of physics: Speed of [...]
I’ve seen some cool Walmart visualizations before, and this one at FlowingData is no exception. The one thing I wondered about as I watched was if it captured store closings–despite the seemingly inevitable march in the visualization, there have been more than a few.
For you football fans, from Advanced NFL Stats we get the equation for Surplus Coach Value! That couldn’t be more brilliant if it tried.
In my work blog: “Announcing Elevation of Privilege: The Threat Modeling Game.” After RSA, I’ll have more to say about how it came about, how it helps you and how very new school it is. But if you’re here, you should come get a deck at the Microsoft booth (1500 row).
They say that Y equals m-x plus b (well, when you remove the uncertainty). So let me reveal a secret confession: You’re the solution to my least squares obsession. stolen from the applied statistics blog
I don’t like the term “Best Practices.” Andrew and I railed against it in the book (pages 36-38). I’ve made comments like “torture is a best practice,” “New best practice: think” and Alex has asked “Are Security “Best Practices” Unethical?“ But people keep using it. Worse, my co-workers are now using it just to watch [...]