It always kinda surprises me when I meet a new security team, or even a new security professional, who balks at the notion that risk assessment is a core part of what they do. In some cases, this attitude is institutionalized as team dynamics, so that if the designated “risk team” gets even the slightest […]
Hare we go: arguing the shape of the risk-assessment world
When I was a kid, twern’t no Netflix or even DVDs. If you wanted to watch something, you had 4 stations on the TV (ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS) or you could go to the cinema. I even remember when they built the first multiplex in Mattoon: it had 3 screens all under one roof. […]
Sorting sacred risk assessment cows
One of the things I haven’t talked too much about over the last year or so I’ve been writing these emails is risk assessments. Hopefully, just because I haven’t talked about them much hasn’t led you to believe I don’t think they’re important. They are. And, they’re firmly at the heart of the whole SABSA […]
Why “systemic impact” should be more than just an architecture talking point
A lot of people out there are talking about the direct impacts to themselves of the global mandatory and voluntary lockdowns enacted to control the spread of COVID-19. This continued spread would be the direct risk of unrestricted physical contact, and the impact, as we’ve seen, clearly has the ability to cause the ultimate impact […]
You gotta helmet?
For reasons many, varied and only explainable by understanding the dynamics of a family with bored little ones, I recently discovered the cult classic Easy Rider. If you’re not familiar with the movie, it actually was a “watershed moment” for American independent film and grossed $60 million in 1969 dollars on a $400K budget. Not […]
