People, it turns out, are really bad at dealing with uncertainty and randomness. We are pre-programmed to see direct causes between independent factors and to treat direct links as unrelated or random. Likelihood, causation, and randomness are fundamental to IT security, and humans having blind spots in these areas are but one reason why we [...]
Entries from August 2009
The Importance of Uncertainty
August 31st, 2009 · 4 Comments
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Hype Cycle for Infrastructure Protection
August 10th, 2009 · 4 Comments
I was honored to be the lead author for the 2009 Hype Cycle for Infrastructure Protection (limited to Gartner customers).
First in thanks and second to demonstrate the depth the depth of work and research we do at Gartner, I’d like to thank my 15 co-authors:
Vic Wheatman, Joseph Feiman, Neil MacDonald, Adam Hils, Jeffrey Wheatman, Peter [...]
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