May 30, 2013 Confusion over Physical Assets, Information Assets – Part Two So I need to compile a list of ALL assets, information or otherwise, NO! That leads to tables and chairs and powerbars. OK so…
March 15, 2013 “Paid to be paranoid” Read the first four paragraphs of this: http://hollylisle.com/shoes-and-handbags/ Forget the rest, forget that its about ‘creative writing’, just answer that question. Bruce Schneier among…
February 17, 2013 Information Gathering and Risk Assessment On the ISO2700 forum one user gave a long description of his information gathering process but expressed frustration over what to do with it…
October 2, 2012 How much Risk Assessment is needed? In many of the InfoSec forums I subscribe to people regularly as the “How long is a piece of string” question: How extensive a…
March 31, 2012 Help on ISO-27000 SoA This kind of question keeps coming up, many people are unclear about the Statement of Applicability on ISO-27000. The SoA should outline the measures…
November 13, 2011 Which Risk Framework to Use: FAIR, FRAP, OCTAVE, SABSA … What framework would you use to provide for quantitative or qualitative risk analysis at both the micro and macro level? I’m asking about a…
July 8, 2011 He’s not Ian Paisley I was at a presentation yesterday. One of the vendor’s speakers, I’m sorry to say, was a CISSP. OK, he wasn’t Ian Paisley or…
January 31, 2011 IT AUDIT VS Risk Assessment – 2 We were discussing which should be done first and someone said: The first has to be risk assessment as it is foundation of information…
December 3, 2010 All Threats? All Vulnerabilities? All Assets? One list I subscribe I saw this outrageous statement: ISO 27001 requires that you take account of all the relevant threats (and vulnerabilities) to…
August 3, 2009 Significant Impact Calculation in Business Risk My colleague Gary Hinson made the following observation on the ISO 27001 list in August: There are numerous assumptions and estimations in the risk…
