Site Map - Risk Management

09/25/2007 - By graphing risk on a tree, with the trunk being the attacker’s goal and the branches being his methods, companies can assess the need for countermeasures.

09/24/2007 - A look at country risk ratings, DHS works on information sharing, and an interview with the head of the New York Office of Homeland Security.

09/21/2007 - Security and outsourcing, cell-phone risk, e-mail worms, and what’s new in secure portable data devices.

09/21/2007 - Percentage of large wastewater facilities surveyed by the Government Accountability Office that said they had completed or were still conducting a vulnerability assessment

09/21/2007 - Six Centers of Excellence serve as incubators of ideas and research for the Department of Homeland Security.

09/20/2007 - Recognizing that compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley is disproportionately costly for small companies, the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce has called for the Securities and Exchange Commission to exempt small public companies from certain provisions of Section 404 of the statute. Section 404 requires public companies to put into place an internal control structure for financial reporting and to report annually on the structure’s effectiveness. @ That recommendation, and four others, can be found in a fairer climb: improving Sarbanes-Oxley, available at SM Online.

09/19/2007 - The recently revised risk- and needs-based grant allocation process for the Department of Homeland Security needs oversight to ensure its effectiveness, according to a new report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) entitled FY2006 Homeland Security Grant Distribution Methods: Issues for the 109th Congress.

09/19/2007 - The DHS's recently revised risk and needs-based grant allocation process needs more oversight, according to a new report.

09/18/2007 - Trends in tightening fraud controls and preventing identity theft. Plus, security intelligence aids an African journey, and more.

09/12/2007 - Find out which retrofit option is best to protect your building from a number of chemical releases according to a joint government report.

09/11/2007 - A study conducted by Booz Allen for ASIS International looks at the implications of convergence.

09/07/2007 - The survey was conducted by Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) for ASIS International, the Information Systems Security Association, and the Information Systems Audit and Control Association.

09/07/2007 - Most of us are lousy decision-makers, and unfortunately many of the decisions that we take as individuals or as a society can be both very wrong and have very harmful or costly consequences. But there are many tried and tested ways of making relatively sound decisions. Cost-benefit analysis, risk management, and related disciplines that rely on statistics, economics, the law, and psychology allow us to weigh choices rationally and increase the odds of making wise choices.