It was a meeting of the minds: FAIR model creator Jack Jones, who’s dedicated his career advocating for quantitative, critical thinking against the easy-button practices of conventional cyber risk management—and Michele Wucker, author of The Gray Rhino: How to Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore
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“Coronavirus is the black swan of 2020,” says a recent statement by Sequoia, the prominent venture capital firm, repeating a buzzy term that’s being widely circulated to describe the current pandemic crisis
We took a short survey of FAIR™ Institute email subscribers to get a quick read on their involvement with business continuity planning for the impact of COVID-19. The poll keyed off a podcast with Jack Freund
Organizations are rethinking their business continuity plans to get ahead of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic– an opportunity for IT risk analysts to bring to the table the critical thinking skills of Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR™) and quantitative cyber risk analysis.
In this short talk at the FAIR Institute Breakfast during the 2020 RSA Conference, Ascena Retail CISO Mark Tomallo transferred a lot of knowledge about starting and winning with a FAIR™ program
If you were among the 700 RSA Conference attendees who sat in on one of the two half-day seminars introducing FAIR™, led by Jack Jones and Jack Freund (photo), co-authors of the FAIR book, you got a good look at the power of the FAIR model
Tom Callaghan and Christophe Foret pioneered FAIR™ in Europe, both as founders of the Paris Chapter of the Institute and of consulting firm C-Risk, the European leader in cyber risk quantification services.
Risk quantification pioneers come to FAIR™ from all different directions but Alex Rogozhin, Sr. Manager, Cybersecurity Intelligence Team, at banking company Truist had one of the more unusual journeys.
A new article from Ars Technica asks the question “why is the healthcare industry still so bad at cybersecurity?” and answers with an inventory of institutional and regulatory shortsightedness, resistance to change, lack of budget and simple confusion that calls out for the kind of re-set button that other industries are hitting with a risk-based approach to cybersecurity like FAIR™.
In this webinar, Cyber Intelligence Analyst Samantha Chamberlin, tells how Fannie Mae uses FAIR™ to solve the common problems of both threat intelligence and risk analysis teams, particularly the challenges of gathering information from technical SMEs
