Alex Hutton has an excellent post on his work blog: Jim Tiller of British Telecom has published a blog post called “Risk Appetite, Counting Security Calories Won’t Help”. I’d like to discuss Jim’s blog post because I think it shows a difference in perspectives between our organizations. I’d also like to counter a few of [...]
Over in the Securosis blog, Rich Mogull wrote a post “There is No Market for Security Innovation.” Rich is right that there’s currently no market, but that doesn’t mean there’s no demand. I think there are a couple of inhibitors to the market, but the key one is that transaction costs are kept high by [...]
Some time back, a friend of mine said “Alex, I like the concept of Risk Management, but it’s a little like the United Nations – Good in concept, horrible in execution”. Recently, a couple of folks have been talking about how security should just be a “diligence” function, that is, we should just prove that [...]
Previously, Russell wrote “Everybody complains about lack of information security research, but nobody does anything about it.” In that post, he argues for a model where Ideally, this program should be “idea capitalists”, knowing some people and ideas won’t payoff but others will be huge winners. One thing for sure — we shouldn’t focus this [...]
As something of a follow-up to my last post on Aviation Safety, I heard this story about Toyota’s now very public quality concerns on NPR while driving my not-Prius to work last week. Driving a Toyota may seem like a pretty risky idea these days. For weeks now, weve been hearing scary stories about sudden [...]
Ian Grigg seems to have kicked off a micro-trend with “The most magical question of all — why are so many bright people fooling themselves about the science in information security?.” Gunnar Peterson followed up with “Most Important Security Question: Cui Bono?” Both of these are really good questions, but I’m going to take issue [...]
Longtime readers know that I’m not the biggest fan of GRC as it is “practiced” today. I believe G & C are subservient to risk management. So let me offer you this statement to chew on: “A metric for Governance is only useful inasmuch as it describes an ability to manage risk” True or False, [...]
George Hulme nominates this as the stupidest blog post of the year. I’m tempted to vote, although we have 30 more days. Business leaders need to understand there is no more need for proper security to justify itself over and over again. It saves you time and money (period). My take? Anytime someone says that [...]