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- Calculating Risk: Panning for gold in Goldman
- Calculating Risk: Panning for gold in GoldmanPat Leach wrote this story in 2006In "Why Can't You Just Give Me the Number?" (p. 55) by Patrick Leach, the Goldman approach to risk was highlighted as a best practice. To be fair, Pat couldn't have written this exact story in 06, but...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-10
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- Life insurance may prove difficult to get if you contract H1N1
- Insurance company business model:Only sell insurance to those who will not need it and hence not collect.For life insurance, they at least have a case, because it should not be possible to take out a $1M policy the day before you die of cancer.Health CARE however is supposed to be...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-13
- Needles and haystacks: Balancing precision and recall
- Attivio's Sid Probstein says for traditional search, the conventional model is to return many results to get high recall; somewhere in there are the right answers. But what if you want a more precise answer? Commentary - These terms are bandied about in most every...
- News items 2009-10-29
- Don't rely on industry averages for cost of downtime
- On a weekly basis, I get at least one inquiry request from either a vendor or an end-user company seeking industry averages for the cost of downtime. Vendors like to quote these statistics to grab your attention and to create a sense of urgency to buy their products or services. BC/DR planners...
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- Some important truths about pen-testing
- Guest editorial by Alberto Soliño Penetration testing is a highly scientific, metrics-driven approach to IT security that has been in practice since almost the dawn of the modern computing era when programmers first began conducting organized tests, or “hacks†of their own, or others’ technologies to test...
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- Microsoft's fiscal 2010 battle cry: Growing our share
- Microsoft's fiscal 2010 battle cry: Growing our shareMindshare comes firstIn past few years Microsoft has lost tremendous mindshare with mediocre products (Windows Vista, Windows Mobile)>The slogan should really be "Grow Our Mindshare" with good products. Market share will take care by itself.The reason for the Apple focus (despite small market...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-16
- ATP III Cholesterol Management Guidelines Tool 1.2 (Mobile)
- New guidelines issued on May 15 by the National Heart, Lung, and BloodInstitute (as the Third Report of the Expert Panel of the NationalCholesterol Education Program on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High BloodCholesterol in Adults (Adult Treatment Panel III, or ATP III) recommend somesignificant changes in the approach to...
- Software downloads 2009-07-08
- New version of Oracle PLM tool helps IT streamline product development
- In this economy, IT and engineering departments are not only lean, but many of them naturally become more risk-averse. That's bad for business because successful companies and IT groups use technology as an innovative and competitive advantage and in order to do that you have to take some healthy risks....
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- Corrupting consolidation
- The last week or so I've had a number of conversations with colleagues attempting to figure out how and why the enterprise software mega-players continue to get away with premium pricing during the worst recession in living memory. Why is it that Oracle can show its best...
- Blog posts 2009-03-29
- EPIC claim on Google Docs rings hollow
- In the aftermath of a security boo-boo, in which a "a very small percentage" of Google Docs users had their documents exposed to the worldunintended collaborators, the Electronic Privacy Information Center has officially asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether Google engages in deceptive business practices. ...
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- EuroScore Palm 1.0 (Mobile)
- A method of calculating predicted operative mortality for patients undergoing cardiac surgery. The European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation EuroSCORE identifies a number of risk factors which help to predict mortality from cardiac surgery. The predicted mortality in percent is calculated by adding the weights assigned to each factor....
- Software downloads 2009-03-01
- News to know: Goldman's IT; Kindle 2; Google; Microsoft
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily . For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Calculating Risk: Panning for gold in Goldman's 'gut' Whitepaper: How IT helped Goldman Sachs step back...
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- Calculating Risk: Panning for gold in Goldman's 'gut'
- All five investment banks that existed a year ago are gone. These are firms which put their own capital and the capital of big institutional and individual investors at risk, to merge or acquire companies. And were supposed to be experts at...
- Blog posts 2009-02-09
- Improve your failed IT culture
- Improve your failed IT cultureRisk and rulesWhat's the connection between your suggested steps to improve projects and the problem identified?Is it possible to deal with the problem identified in the following quoted quotes without using the word "blame"?Creating a culture for risk management is a challenging proposition for most firms....
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- Is Cuil killing the Internet?
- Is Cuil killing the Internet?Brute force indexing?I have an inkling Cuil might not be everything it's touted to be. The only reason for brute force indexing is to fill in the gaps where you've come up short in your harvesting/indexing algorithms.RE: Is Cuil killing the Internet?I used Cuil to...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- Risk Management: Bridging Policies and Procedures - Fundamental Security Concepts
- One thing that security professionals know is that security is about processes, not about the technology. The key to security is to match the technology to the process, but you have to know the process first. Policies and procedures are the requirements, and risk management is the bridge between the...
- White papers 2008-07-25
- 2008 BMW X6 xDrive35i
- Photo gallery:2008 BMW X6Even after driving the 2008 BMW X6 for a week, we're still not sure what to make of it. BMW's marketing campaign calls it the coupe's evil twin, but with the 3-liter twin-turbo inline six-cylinder in our xDrive35i model, it doesn't feel particularly diabolical. It seems more...
- Product reviews 2008-07-15
- Nursing2009 Drug Handbook (NDH09) (Mobile)
- Nursing2009 Drug Handbookpowered by Skyscape Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins The best-selling nursing drug handbook for 29 years is now in its fully updated 2009 edition.Organized by therapeutic class, Nursing2009 Drug Handbook provides quick access to current, accurate information on over 900 generic and 3,000 brand-name drugs, emphasizes nursing aspects...
- Software downloads 2008-06-02
- No security software, no E-banking fraud claims for you
- Rational, but unrealistic in today's threatscape. According to the Times : "Customers using their credit or debit cards online have been advised that high street banks are likely to become increasingly reluctant to help victims of internet fraud as new rules added to the Banking Code signal less willingness...
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Security: Lintel vs Wintel
- In the PC community "security" just means defending against attacks aimed at destroying or misusing all or part of a computer system. In that context most of the complexities associated with trying to decide whether wintel or lintel will expose you to less security risk arise from the absense of...
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
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