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.
May 26, 2022 7:40:00 AM
The community of FAIR cyber risk quantification (CRQ) experts, practitioners and learners comes together for the 2022 FAIR Conference, September 27 and 28 in Washington, D.C., (take advantage of the early bird pricing expiring May 31 – buy your tickets now).
May 25, 2022 1:59:01 PM
Jack Jones, creator of FAIR™ (Factor Analysis of Information Risk) and chief provocateur of the cyber risk quantification movement, speaks at the 2022 RSA Conference, Wednesday, June 8, in a morning seminar on the future of risk measurement.
May 24, 2022 2:12:25 PM
CVSS scores are widely used – and widely mis-used – in cyber risk management. The Common Vulnerability Scoring System serves as a valuable alert system to point defenders to weaknesses in their defenses. But because CVSS scoring is numeric, it is often confused as quantitative cyber risk analysis
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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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...
Read More >>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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