Business, Risk Thereof →
via Ben Lovejoy, writing at 9TO5mac, comes word of warnings industry and academics are flagging regarding the enormous risk Apple Inc. (NasdaqGS: AAPL) has assumed in management of user data and the secure implementation thereof. In this case - specifically - the concern exists in the so-called 'differential privacy (PDF)' realm. Also this... Todays Must Read!
PECB, Karsten Decker's 'Information Security – Risk Identification Is All' →
From Karsten Decker's 'Information Security - Risk Identification Is All' video description:
(Karsten Decker) The Owner and the CEO of Decker Consulting GmbH, talked about risk identification and information security. He elaborated these topics through three important questions. 1. What is information security risk? 2. Why is it important? , and 3. What is crucial for its success?
PECB Insights Conference - where experts meet! To see the presentation slides: https://pecb.com/conferences/previous-events/pecb-insights-conference-2017/presentations/
Risk →
via Robert Graham's well-crafted Errata Security blog, comes this insightful piece on a fundamental lack of expertise in the Information Security racket.
To wit, the inability of information security professionals to quantify risk successfully, and communicate the results to the apropos stakeholders - an activity crucial to providing the fodder necessary to formulate decisions regarding risk avoidance, transfer, mitigation, or acceptance. Something insurance companies have been accomplishing regularly (with a certain level of acceptable success) for centuries....