Jay Heiser

If you wanted to sabotage a trading system, you might set out to design suicide mechanisms that look very much like today’s automated trading mechanisms.  Blaming Knight Capital’s screwed pooch on ‘software bug’ is a simplistic and flawed starting point for understanding the bigger risk picture. Automated mechanisms within trading systems act as positive feedback [...]

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Category: Policy risk management Strategic Planning     Tags: brittleness, cascading failure, reliability, resiliency, systemic risk, too big to fail

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“What would be the social/economic/national/global impact of an incident that affected all the customers of a major provider?”

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Category: Cloud risk management security Strategic Planning     Tags: Cloud, cloud disaster, cloud regulation, cloud security, critical infrastructure, disaster recovery, national security, public policy, security

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Determining if we have an immediate need to expand today’s 1,000 cyberwar technologists by 10-30x would be like solving global warming by immediately stopping the use of fossil fuel. It may well be the right approach, but you can’t know for sure until after it is too late.

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Category: security Strategic Planning     Tags: career path, CISA, CISSP, IISP, security, skills

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