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I was fixing to post on some of the ROI posts floating around, with my usual usual dainty prose. But Anton Chuvakin did a much better job than I could - though it appears he has a ringer on his team.

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In a previous post, I discussed how much to spend on information security based on Gordon & Loeb's book Managing Cybersecurity Resources: A Cost-Benefit Analysis. The crux: spend no more than 37% of your expected loss.

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One the comments on Emergent Chaos about my post Incentive plan for an information security team was from Andrew Jaquith of the Yankee Group:

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Though I look forward to reading The New School Information Security.

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Time for me to weigh in on the subject of liability for software bugs. Bruce Schneier posted about it here, and Pete Lindstrom responded here. I agree with Lindstrom. It is an incredibly bad idea. Software liability laws will increase the costs of software development so high that it will drive small firms from the market, reduce customer choice resulting in less choice, less innovation and even worse software.

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