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Economics and Risk, Highlights, Random, Vulnerability Management

The 7-day Itch: Ups and Downs of Google’s New Disclosure Policy

by Pete Lindstrom • June 5, 2013

Recently, members of the security team at Google made an important announcement about “real-world exploitation of publicly unknown vulnerabilities.” While it was done on the Google Online Security blog, all indications are that this is an official Google policy statement.…

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Economics and Risk, Highlights, Random, Vulnerability Management

Cognitive Dissonance or Spite?

by Pete Lindstrom • February 11, 2013

I happened to see a tweet the other day that said: “If you want a bug fixed quickly, sell it on the Russian black market. It’ll be so heavily abused that the vendor will patch out of cycle.” Now, it…

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Economics and Risk, Highlights, Incidents, Random

How Much did Amazon Lose in Yesterday’s Outage?

by Pete Lindstrom • February 1, 2013

One of the crucial aspects of risk management for infosec pros to learn is how to estimate consequences. It can be helpful to review incidents and create a model for thinking about losses. Amazon’s outage for an hour yesterday, is…

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Economics and Risk, Highlights, Metrics, Random

How the Cost of Interventions provides Insight into Security Decisionmaking

by Pete Lindstrom • January 31, 2013

In 1994, Tengs, et.al. published the research paper “Five-Hundred Life-Saving Interventions and Their Cost-Effectiveness.” (pdf) The research reviewed 587 different interventions and calculated the “cost per life-year saved” as a normalized metric across over 200 different studies on economic costs. So,…

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Economics and Risk, Metrics, Random

Ruminations on Info Asset Value, Impact, and Control Horizons

by Pete Lindstrom • October 17, 2012

One of the most challenging characteristics in our space is that *direct* information asset value – what the business is interested in – has an ambiguous relationship to consequences/impact – what security professionals are trying to minimize. I am a…

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Economics and Risk, Highlights, Metrics, Random

How Red Meat can make Cybersecurity Healthier

by Pete Lindstrom • March 26, 2012

Recently, the L.A. Times and other places wrote about a study done by Dr. Walter Willett of Harvard, et.al. regarding the impact of red meat on one’s mortality. He found that eating as little as one extra serving of red…

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