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Fear, Uncertainty, & Doubt

Thinking About Reducing Risk

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Eric
Oct 02, 2015
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Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve posted here. I’ve been kinda busy, tons of travel, sending a kid off to college, BlackHat and DefCon and DerbyCon, lots of engagement with customers around the idea of a mature vulnerability management program. It’s been busy. No excuse, though. Although some of my content and thoughts can be found over at the RSA Conference Blog. So, I’ve got that going for me anyway.

Be that as it may, I’ve been thinking about something and thought I would put it out there.

I often hear that perfection when it comes to risk is critical for airlines and the aviation industry. But that perfection is not possible for the security industry and we just have to do our best. Now, let’s think about this for a minute. Does it really makes sense to just blithely say we can’t do it, throw our hands in the air and give up?

When I was a kid growing up I remember roughly an airplane crash almost once a week on the evening news. It was sort of common place. Today? We are shocked …

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