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the-start-of-a-trend

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago

One can hope: An eternal optimist asks Enterprise Vendors to pave the way for two-factor authentication.

the-price-of-managerial-neglect

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago

I would think that this kind of research would be applicable to Information Security:

i-can-dig-it-he-can-dig-it-she-can-dig-it-we-can

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago

With apologies to Friends of Distinction: An article I wrote for Howtoforge has made the front page of Digg. So can you digg it. baby?

the-halo-effect-and-business-performance

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago

I really enjoyed a recent 'manifesto' from the ChangeThis site recently by Phil Rosenzweig called Forget Formulas . In it he points out the flaws in many management books that purport to find a formula for success based on a large quantity of mainly anecdotal evidence. The data is suspect because of the 'halo effect' (also the title of Rosenzweig's book):

The key weakness is the halo effect, a concept that was first identified by psychologist Edward Thorndike in 1920. It refers to the basic human tendency to make specific inferences on the basis of an overall impression. People tend to have an overall evaluation about someone or something, and let that evaluation shape specific features. the halo effect is found in many walks of life, including the way we evaluate job candidates—the graduate from a well-respected school tends to look good across the boards, while a graduate from an unheralded local school tends to look less attractive. Brand building, too, is based on the halo effect—companies know that consumers will attribute favorable qualities to a product from a respected company, and therefore go to great lengths to create positive associations with their brand.

risk-and-effectiveness-for-project-evaluation

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago

Gunnar Peterson has a post from Metricon about Bryan Ware's presentation about combining the effectiveness of a solution and the risk involved. I couldn't find the link to the actualy presentation. (I didn't have the time to go through them all.)

I think I would tie the effectiveness of the proposed security solution to the cost of capital of the overall project. It would be interesting to tie Bryan's work with my "work" on estimating the cost of capital for an information security project.

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