FAIR Institute Blog

Meet the FAIR™ evangelist at the US Department of Agriculture, Caleb Juhnke, a contracted Senior Cyber Risk analyst, part of the leading edge introducing quantitative cyber risk analysis to the federal government

If you’re new to Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR™), understand that it’s first of all a movement

Good choice - There are an estimated 3.5 million unfilled jobs in cybersecurity worldwide right now and the position of cyber risk analyst is on the cutting edge of career choices

I wear my ‘FAIR™ evangelist’ badge proudly. I have had the opportunity to present quantitative risk analysis to a variety of audiences

It’s a risk analyst’s nightmare: An extremely low-frequency event with extremely high magnitude impact. That’s what the state of Texas has been living through

The hack at the Oldsmar, Florida, water treatment plant, an attempt to inject harmful levels of lye, drew headlines fretting over the possibility of cyber-terror striking a utility sector with “few protections against hacking,” as the Wall St. Journal said.

Here’s a step-by-step look at how an experienced FAIR™ analyst starts with nebulous concerns that may fill your risk register now – items like Privileged Access Management, The Cloud, Data Breach – and shapes them into risk statements to set up a FAIR analysis.  

Cybersecurity is no longer strictly an IT issue or even a risk management issue, it’s a strategic issue that runs across the enterprise, and boards need to oversee it accordingly.

We’re hearing from members that the market for cyber insurance has grown very tight, so we contacted Chip Block, chair of the Washington-area Chapter of the FAIR Institute, longtime cyber insurance expert

We were delighted to learn that John Carlin, a friend of the FAIR Institute and a pioneer of risk quantification in the federal government, has been appointed Acting Deputy Attorney General