• 16 Dec 2009

    How Tiger Woods’ marriage is like risk management

    In the seemingly unavoidable media drone tirades hammering Tiger Woods and his marital situation I realized the tie-ins that such high-profile marriages have with what we do in the information security field. It boils down to two things:It's all about the moneyThe focus going in is on who can get the most out of it - "what's in it for me?"We see this all the time when it comes to ...

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  • 30 Jun 2009

    Tool to take the pain out of threat modeling

    Can you tell I'm getting caught up on talking about some neat security tools worth checking out!? Well, here's another one: Amenaza's SecurITree that I first wrote about in my book Hacking For Dummies, 2nd edition. It's a decision support tool you can use to analyze specific threats to your business and the likelihood of attack. Threat modeling is something that many people do in their head "qualitatively" (or not ...

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