Introducing the FAIR Controls Analytics Model™ | FAIR-CAM™

The New Standard for Measuring Effectiveness of Cybersecurity Controls

Jack Jones builds on the FAIR model for risk quantification with FAIR-CAM for modeling and quantifying the value of controls and controls systems for risk reduction.

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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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Bob Kolasky, who runs the National Risk Management Center in CISA, gave the FAIR Conference 2021 a briefing on CISA’s Systemic Cyber Risk Reduction Venture, an effort to manage and reduce cyber risks to critical infrastructure.

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With all the time and money that infosec professionals invest in controls – implementing, patching, auditing, policy promulgation, etc. – you’d think they would be driving control stacks like finely-tuned machines.

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Dec 2, 2021 6:30:00 AM

If you’re introducing FAIR™ and cyber risk quantification to your organization, look at this presentation from the 2021 FAIR Conference by Cedric De Carvalho, Cyber Risk Manager at Richemont International SA

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Inherent Risk vs. Residual Risk Explained in 90 Seconds

Sep 7, 2017 3:18:43 PM

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?

May 1, 2017 8:51:54 AM

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

Similar to the word “risk,” you will...

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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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