2022 FAIR Conference | September 27 & 28

SCALE: Risk Management to the Next Level

FAIRCON22 brings together thought leaders in cyber and operational risk management to explore best FAIR practices that produce greater value and alignment with business goals.

What is the FAIR Institute?

FAIRTM (Factor Analysis of Information Risk)  has emerged as the premier Value at Risk (VaR) model for cybersecurity and operational risk. The FAIRTM Institute is a non-profit professional organization dedicated to advancing the discipline of measuring and managing cyber and operational risk.

It provides information risk, cybersecurity and business executives with the standards and best practices to help organizations measure, manage and report on information risk from the business perspective. The FAIRTM Institute and its community focus on innovation, education and sharing of best practices to advance the FAIRTM model and the cyber and operational risk management professions.
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Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIRTM) is a practical framework for understanding, measuring and analyzing information risk, and ultimately, for enabling well-informed decision making.

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The FAIR Institute is an expert, non-profit organization led by information risk officers, CISOs and business executives to develop standard information risk management practices based on FAIRTM.

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Learn about the industry's best practices; collaborate with other innovators to further advance the profession; and network with your peers to learn from their operational experiences.

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7 Basic Tools for FAIR Cyber Risk Analysis

May 18, 2022 11:07:03 AM

If you’re looking to try Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR™) in a lightweight way, these tools and resources will get you started – all of them offered by the FAIR Institute or shared by Institute members, particularly in sessions at the annual FAIR Conference.

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10 Reasons Why FAIR Is Winning

May 17, 2022 3:57:43 PM

Why did FAIR™ (Factor Analysis of Information Risk) emerge as the de facto number-one standard model for cyber, technology and operational risk analysis? No other risk model supports defensible quantitative analysis in the financial terms

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Harvard Law Article: SEC Proposed Rules a “Game Changer” for Reporting Cyber Risk in Financial Terms

May 11, 2022 2:38:01 PM

The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance recently published an article, Proposed SEC Cyber Rules: A Game Changer for Public Companies, that outlines how new SEC rules could require an in-depth understanding of the potential liabilities related to cyber risk

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Inherent Risk vs. Residual Risk Explained in 90 Seconds

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I recently had a conversation with clients around a risk analysis they conducted and noticed as they walked me through it that they seemed to get hung up on the terms “inherent risk” and “residual...

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'Risk Appetite' vs. 'Risk Tolerance'. What’s the Difference?

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The terms “risk appetite” and its close cousin “risk tolerance” are often poorly understood, very rarely used to good effect, and commonly used interchangeably.

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Security Exception vs. Risk Acceptance: What's the Difference?

Feb 6, 2019 2:00:00 PM

FAIR model creator Jack Jones recently answered a FAIR Institute member's question about terminology that's one of those easily confused yet critical distinctions in cyber risk management: What's the...

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