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Roland Cloutier & Risk Management
An Interview with Roland Cloutier, Vice President and Chief Security Officer for ADP Worldwide: With more than $10 billion in revenues and 600,000 clients, ADP is one of the world’s largest providers of business...
Read MoreImproving Signal to Noise in Risk Management
One of the most important responsibilities of the information security professional (or any IT professional, for that matter) is to help management make well-informed decisions. Unfortunately, this has been an elusive objective when it...
Read MoreCXOWARE Programmer Scott Traver Places Third in Hackathon Competition
Spokane just completed its first hackathon this weekend. A hackathon is an event where computer develpers come to together to solve problems or just build cool stuff. The theme of our event was, “Use...
Read MoreBooz Allen – Financial Services Cybersecurity Trends for 2013
http://www.equities.com/news/headline-story?dt=2012-11-29&val=772186&cat=finance
Read MoreOpen Group – Quantifying Cybersecurity Risk in $$$
For those wishing to attend the Open Group event click here: The Open Group Part Two – Quantifying Cybersecurity Risk in $$$. For more personal attention and detailed information following the event, register here:...
Read MoreOpen Group – Communicating Cybersecurity Risk to Business Leaders
September 13th, 2012 event: Communicating Cybersecurity Risk to Business Leaders Link to Open Group Event: http://hosted-p0.vresp.com/794319/6991ab13c6/ARCHIVE
Read MoreJack Jones: Numbers Game – CSO Magazine
Jack Jones: Numbers game CSO When someone says Jack Jones wrote the book on how to think about information risk, they mean it literally. He created the Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR), which...
Read MoreRisky Conversations by Dwayne Melancon
http://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/it-security-data-protection/cyber-security/risky-conversations/
Read MoreWhat is FAIR’s unique value proposition? What is the business case for FAIR?
I posed these questions recently to several CISO’s in an effort to validate and quantify the FAIR value proposition. Translating features and benefits into business impact or economic impact is the challenge. For instance,...
Read MoreRisk Rating Litmus Test
One of the significant challenges the risk profession faces is the ability to prioritize. What I see a lot of in the industry are tools and methods that spit out dozens or even hundreds...
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