The role of fear in decision making
I came across today (via the always-excellent HelpNet) commentary and coverage resulting from a Gartner press release about the possibel effects of fear on risk management. Anyway, check out the full...
View ArticlePractical Network Convergence?
There’s an article out there in the aether (OK, by “aether” I really mean it’s Ars) about why merging your networks may not be such a good idea. Essentially, the article addresses “network...
View ArticleOn the Security of Coin (and X Rebirth)
X Rebirth came out on Friday, so I hadn’t figured on doing much in the way of blogging this week since I had imagined much of my downtime would be invested in virtual intersteller logistics. That said,...
View ArticleCompetitiveness impacts from BSAFE & Dual_EC_DRBG?
Like most people, I took a bit of time off for the winter break, so have recently been catching up on last week’s stories. Before the holidays, I had been following with interest the discussion about...
View ArticleBYOD Best Practices?
Today, I caught an announcement from Microsoft saying that they released some BYOD Best Practices. Now, as you might imagine, I was very excited by this: after all, Microsoft bought PhoneFactor a...
View Article2014: The Year of Tough Questions
So, as some of you remember, I’ve periodically guest-posted on various blogs. I’ve mostly stopped doing that because (believe it or not) it takes quite a bit of effort to write a blog post… at least...
View ArticleMobile app testing less terrible than it could be
So last night I came across a report from IOActive about some technical testing that they did about mobile banking apps. The results are nicely summarized in an article on their blog entitled,...
View ArticleSciCast: Toward a better model for prediction
So, it’s the new year again! I know this because of the many corrections I’ve needed to make when filling out anything with a “date” field on it. So “welcome 2014″: I’ll get used to calling you by...
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