FAIR Institute Blog

John A. Wheeler, Gartner’s influential global research leader for risk management technology solutions and services, is just out with a new blog post introducing the concept of “techquilibrium”, defined as “the balance point where the enterprise has the right mix of traditional and digital capabilities

It was one of the most closely listened-to panel discussions of the recent 2019 FAIR Conference: “Pen-Testing Your Board Pitch,” starring two veteran board members, James Lam (E*TRADE) and Chris Inglis (FedEx) [photo, right], presenting attendees with a rare opportunity to hear directly from the source

CISO Omar Khawaja built a highly rated security program for Highmark Health, the major manager of health plans and hospitals – but something was missing, he told Health IT Security in a recently published interview.

With FAIR – and risk quantification -- increasingly accepted as the standard for cyber risk analysis, FAIR Institute Chairman Jack Jones talked to what’s next in his keynote address to the recent 2019 FAIR Conference: Setting up successful FAIR-based programs that manage risk cost-effectively.

(We just added the video so you can watch in its entirety this significant speech looking back and forward on US government cybersecurity policy. Watch the video now. FAIR Institute membership and LINK community site registration -- both free-- required to view the video.)

At FAIRCON19, we caught up with Annie Lavoie, Director, IT Risk Management for the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), a government-supported financial institution devoted exclusively to funding entrepreneurs. Annie is an auditor who moved into IT risk at BDC within the past three years and is now one of the leaders of the FAIR adoption program

Last week’s 2019 FAIR Conference in National Harbor, MD, drew a record crowd of enthusiastic practitioners and learners of FAIR quantitative risk analysis. thorough media coverage of the event spread the word to a wider audience that risk management, particularly on the cyber side, is undergoing a fundamental change for the better

National Harbor, MD, Sept. 25, 2019 – The FAIR Institute, an expert, nonprofit organization led by information risk officers, CISOs and business executives to develop standard information, cybersecurity and operational risk management practices based on the Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR) model, recognized three risk management leaders this week during its annual FAIR Conference (FAIRCON19) at National Harbor, MD.

Like Day One of FAIRCON19, the second day of the FAIR Institute’s annual gathering covered a wide range of top-of-mind topics for cybersecurity and risk professionals

The theme of the 2019 FAIR Conference that kicked off Tuesday is "How to Build a Quantitative Risk Management Program with FAIR" and comes with plenty of signs that the FAIR movement is pushing forward into wide acceptance