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Rebecca Merritt

Rebecca Merritt is a Risk Consultant for RiskLens

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FAIR Institute Summer Book Club Final Meeting - All 6 Chapter Guides to the FAIR Book Are Right Here

[fa icon="calendar'] Aug 27, 2020 7:30:00 AM / by Rebecca Merritt posted in FAIR Summer Book Club 2020

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Time flies when you’re quantifying risk, Labor Day is in sight, and we’re wrapping up our summer group read of the FAIR book, Measuring and Managing Information Risk

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FAIR Institute Summer Book Club Part 5 – Reading the FAIR Book Together – This Week: Controls and Common Mistakes

[fa icon="calendar'] Aug 5, 2020 7:53:00 AM / by Rebecca Merritt posted in FAIR Summer Book Club 2020

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We're on Chapter 10 (Common Mistakes) and Chapter 11 (Controls), Book Clubbers, and this week we will dive into some tricks of the FAIR™ trade

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FAIR Institute Summer Book Club Part 4 – Reading the FAIR Book Together – This Week: A Walk through a Sample Risk Analysis

[fa icon="calendar'] Jul 16, 2020 7:24:00 AM / by Rebecca Merritt posted in FAIR Summer Book Club 2020

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All summer, we are reading together Measuring and Managing Information Risk, the classic book on quantitative risk analysis with the FAIR™ model. This week, we cover Chapter 8 (Risk Analysis Examples) and Chapter 9 (Thinking about Risk Scenarios Using FAIR).

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FAIR Institute Summer Book Club Part 3 – Reading the FAIR Book Together - This Week: Analysis Process and Results

[fa icon="calendar'] Jul 1, 2020 9:05:54 AM / by Rebecca Merritt posted in FAIR Summer Book Club 2020

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This week, it’s Chapter 6 (Analysis Process) and 7 (Understanding Results) in Measuring and Managing Information Risk, the FAIR book, and now we’re getting hands-on with a working knowledge of quantitative cyber risk analysis.

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FAIR Institute Summer Book Club Part 2 – Reading the FAIR Book Together

[fa icon="calendar'] Jun 10, 2020 10:44:20 AM / by Rebecca Merritt posted in FAIR, FAIR Summer Book Club 2020

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All summer, we are reading and discussing the FAIR™ book, Measuring and Managing Information Risk by Jack Freund and Jack Jones, the authoritative text on quantitative cyber risk analysis and risk management, with a new discussion guide every two weeks to help FAIR summer book clubs spark conversation.  

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Introducing the FAIR Institute Summer Book Club – Let’s Read & Discuss the FAIR Book Together

[fa icon="calendar'] May 27, 2020 10:18:06 AM / by Rebecca Merritt posted in FAIR Summer Book Club 2020

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Get your highlighters ready – find a stack of Post-it notes – the FAIR Institute is putting on a summer book club to read and discuss the FAIR™ book, Measuring and Managing Information Risk

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Amazon S3 Bucket Data Breaches – a FAIR™ Risk Analysis

[fa icon="calendar'] Apr 13, 2020 11:48:00 AM / by Rebecca Merritt posted in FAIR, Risk Management, Case Studies

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With the ongoing big move to cloud storage to support working from home, it seems inevitable that we’re going to see more data breaches on Amazon S3 “buckets”,  an evergreen cybersecurity problem. It happened again a week ago

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Define Your Company’s Appetite for Risk with FAIR Analysis

[fa icon="calendar'] Apr 30, 2019 6:59:42 AM / by Rebecca Merritt posted in FAIR, Risk Management

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In basic terms, a company’s “risk appetite” is the level of risk the organization sees as acceptable.  Not surprisingly, some use the phrase “risk tolerance” interchangeably with “risk appetite” (there is an important difference: "tolerance" is how far off "appetite" the organization will go).

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4 Reasons You Must Define an Asset for FAIR Risk Analysis

[fa icon="calendar'] May 31, 2018 9:00:00 AM / by Rebecca Merritt

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I’ve heard it many times – “Why can’t we just do this analysis over the whole IT environment? Why do we need to pick a specific asset or population or assets?”

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How to Model Controls in a FAIR Risk Analysis

[fa icon="calendar'] Apr 12, 2018 9:00:00 AM / by Rebecca Merritt posted in FAIR

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As a former auditor, I understand the value a control has for an organization, a process or an application.  But, I’ll be honest I used to think a control was one dimensional. It didn’t really matter what the control protected, if the control wasn’t functioning properly or configured exactly to a ‘T’, it was failing.

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