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Brushing up on my math skills...

2006-07-21 04:38:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...math and statistics classes in college. Yet I find financial markets (derivatives in particular) fascinating. And becoming knowledgeable in them actually gave me an edge in the industry Looking back, it seems that I chose the wrong college course. But my interest in the subject matter and the willingness to learn did not stop me from...
 
Tags: derivatives, topics, plain vanilla derivatives, discuss topics, quantitative finance topics, financial derivatives, quantitative finance, papers, research papers
 
 
 
 
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Buggy Microsoft Excel patch causes bad math

2008-03-14 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
If you installed one of those Excel security patches issued by Microsoft earlier this week, you may want to double-check your math
 
Tags: excel security patches, math, microsoft, double-check, week
 
 
 
 
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New faces and predictions for the New Year...

2008-01-22 22:11:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...math is correct, that states that Microsoft was responsible for 3.8885 percent of the vulnerabilities in the NVD in 2007. My prediction is those same queries and same math for 2008 will be less than 3.8885 percent. Before anyone starts commenting about how good or bad the NVD is, let me just state that it's an independent baseline with...
 
Tags: sdl team, team, sdl, sdl blog crew, cve, cve vulnerabilities, microsoft, single prediction, microsoft products
 
 
 
 
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Spring ISD mobile devices stolen along with personal student information

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2008-05-18 23:01:44 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...math tests, eighth graders who have taken the first round of math tests and 11th and 12th graders who have taken the exit level retest In addition, the drive contains the students personal information, including name, social security number or state-assigned identification number, gender, name of school, grade and birthday Evan] Why in the...
 
Tags: information, students personal information, personal information, isd, students, individual students, isd laptop computer, external flash drive, drive
 
 
 
 
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Memo to Next President: How to Get Cyber Security Right

2008-08-07 15:45:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...math and science education, establish standards for critical infrastructure, spend money on enforcement, establish national standards for securing personal data and data-breach disclosure, and work with industry and academia to develop a bunch of needed technologies I could comment on the plan, but with security the devil is always in the...
 
Tags: security, security standards, improvements, security improvements, information security, cyber security plan, research, government research, national security
 
 
 
 
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Memo to the President

2008-08-12 06:36:31 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...math and science education, establish standards for critical infrastructure, spend money on enforcement, establish national standards for securing personal data and data-breach disclosure, and work with industry and academia to develop a bunch of needed technologies I could comment on the plan, but with security the devil is always in the...
 
Tags: security, security standards, improvements, security improvements, information security, research, government research, cyber security plan, national security
 
 
 
 
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Annual Blog Round-Up - 2007

2008-01-04 13:16:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...math credibility, I will add an item #6 to my Top 5 list, again. This little post called On Open Source in SIEM and Log Management have also generated a lot of traffic and discussion. Indeed, log management vs SIEM as well as reasons for a lack of a popular and complete open source log management solution are fun topics See you in 2009...
 
Tags: blog, round-up, annual blog round-up, monthly blog round-up, security roi pile-up, roi, monthly, blog readers, top
 
 
 
 
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Stolen University Health Care laptop requires notification of 4800

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2008-03-14 10:39:01 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...math. The cost for full disk laptop encryption, maybe $100 - 150. The cost for investigation of the breach (say 20 hours @ $100/hr.), reconstruction (say 20 hours @ $100/hr.), notification ($300 to draft letter and maybe $2,400 to address and mail), and credit monitoring ($15/mo. x 12 months x 4800 customers) might cost $870,000. Maybe the...
 
Tags: information, information assets, personal information, confidential information, information security governance, patients information, university, sensitive information, information security personnel
 
 
 
 
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Can a math equation solve your disaster?

2008-04-14 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
When concern about pandemics began surfacing a few years back, IBM examined the impact of an outbreak on it and its clients. It's research lead it to a mathematical algorithm that IBM believes can predict just about how any organization will be effected by and can manage the results of a disaster
 
Tags: ibm, disaster, mathematical algorithm, research lead, predict, concern, pandemics, clients, outbreak
 
 
 
 
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Laptop stolen from Sodexo employee's car

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2008-05-22 12:39:42 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog