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"Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart." - Wolfgang Puck
I like this quote as I think it actually can draw comparisons to talented risk analysts.
Yesterday, while speaking to a university cybersecurity class, I was accused of being pedantic when I pointed out a problem with the phrase “The risk of that impact…”
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 difference between a security exception (or policy exception) and risk acceptance?
What's the value of FAIR to risk professionals? Why do they join the FAIR Institute? We asked Institute members in attendance at the 2018 FAIR Conference for their thoughts on learning and implementing FAIR, on personal and organizational change and the FAIR movement. We'll be running video excerpts of our conversations over time.
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What would you like to see in the FAIR Institute blog that would most advance your knowledge, skills and awareness of FAIR and the fast-growing movement for critical thinking and quantification in risk analysis?
A large population of risk professionals are truly gifted. Gifted with the gift of gab, that is. This is because they haven't had any other choice until recently.
I have had the privilege or the curse of working with metrics--depending on which side of the fence you are on--through the course of my career. I have tended to lean towards the latter.
