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Shimel's theory of security company relativity or why there are so damn many security companies

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2008-04-10 22:08:39 by HASH0x8b4586c in StillSecure, After All These Years
...theory of security company relativity or why there are so damn many security companies. Like Einstein before me I have reduced relativity (OK not exactly the same kind of relativity and I ain't no Einstein) to a simple formula. He had E=mc2, my formula is Where " A " equals the acquisition price of a security company, " R " equals the revenue...
 
Tags: companies, security companies, company, security company relativity, security company, revenue, revenue level, revenue levels, million
 
 
 
 
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Shimel's theory of security company relativity or why there are so damn many security companies

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2008-04-10 20:16:32 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...theory of security company relativity or why there are so damn many security companies. Like Einstein before me I have reduced relativity (OK not exactly the same kind of relativity and I ain't no Einstein) to a simple formula. He had E=mc2, my formula is Where " A " equals the acquisition price of a security company, " R " equals the revenue...
 
Tags: companies, security companies, company, security company relativity, security company, revenue, revenue level, revenue levels, million
 
 
 
 
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How to Sell Security

2008-05-26 05:57:29 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Theory, the underlying theory behind the newly popular field of behavioral economics. Prospect Theory was developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979 (Kahneman went on to win a Nobel Prize for this and other similar work) to explain how people make trade-offs that involve risk. Before this work, economists had a model of "economic...
 
Tags: security, loss, risky loss, risky larger loss, gain, risky larger gain, security purchase, directly, security directly
 
 
 
 
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Seat Belt Usage and Compensating Behavior

2008-04-11 13:44:59 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...theory that people have an inherent risk thermostat that seeks out an optimal level of risk. When something becomes inherently safer -- a law is passed requiring motorcycle riders to wear helmets, for example -- people compensate by riding more recklessly. I first read this theory in a 1999 paper by John Adams at the University of Reading,...
 
Tags: seat belt, seat belt usage, laws, seat belt laws, fatalities, traffic fatalities, inherent risk thermostat, risk, indirect adverse effect
 
 
 
 
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On virtualisation

2007-05-29 16:20:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...theory is that any security threat or malicious behaviour will be restricted to the virtual environment which can be discarded and then restored to pristine condition after use Virtual machines are sometimes thought of as impenetrable barriers between the guest and host, but in reality they're (usually) just another layer of software between...
 
Tags: machine, virtual machine process, virtual machine software, host machine, host, software, virtual machine, low, low level access
 
 
 
 
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory visitor information exposed

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2007-12-11 13:45:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...theory as much as anyone else, but I don't subscribe to this theory. IF the Chinese government were attacking ORNL, I think the attacks would be much more covert Think about this for a minute. If I were going to attack a system in the United States without getting caught. Why wouldn't I use (proxy through) an insecure server located in a...
 
Tags: information, personal information, security, store social security, retrieve information, regular information security, security systems, cyber-security issues, security breach
 
 
 
 
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OpenCourseWare: Get Smart for Complex Event Processing!

2007-12-30 06:22:05 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...Theory ? Artificial Intelligence ? Computer Language Engineering ? Queueing Theory Well then, put your feet up, relax and click on over to theDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) and enjoy their courses, freely available to anyone, anywhere MITs OCW program freely shares theirlecture notes,...
 
Tags: complex event, event, courses, theory, ocw, mits entire curriculum, ocw lectures, complexity theory, java skills
 
 
 
 
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Judging the economy by RSA

2008-04-08 14:33:24 by HASH0x8b11b7c in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...theory has these rules The better the chotchkies (booth handouts) the better the economy. I can buy that one. This year the best give away I have seen is the bicycle that RSA is giving away. Other than that, I didn't see great giveaways The more booth babes, the better the economy. I disagree with this one. I think sex is a recession proof...
 
Tags: economy, rsa, booth babes, top shelf booze, hard economic times, recession proof business, conference gala, cocktail shrimp, dead giveaway
 
 
 
 
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If you can't tell a booth babe from a real girl, you got problems!

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2008-04-10 23:10:00 by HASH0x8471d50 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...theory of security company relativity but I have to do this first. Sorry, you will have to wait for part 2 of the theory tomorrow. I did want to comment on InfoSec Events post about " Battle of the Booth Babes ". Even though I know the author of the blog, I feel compelled to correct some misconceptions. Lets not ever, ever, ever mistake a...
 
Tags: booth, real booth babe, stillsecure booth, male booth babes, booth babe, booth babes, company, security company relativity, security