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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FAIRCON22 Use Case Presentations Will Show Practical Results of CRQ – Get Your Early Bird Tickets by May 31

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).

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Hear Jack Jones on the Future of Cyber Risk Measurement at RSAC22, June 8

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.

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Dos and Don’ts of Using CVSS Scores in Cyber Risk Management

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

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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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