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Getting revenue on security?

I am looking now into arguably the hardest problem of security: how to make it pay off. Security is usually seen as a risk management tool, where increasing security investment lowers the risk of costly disasters. But the trade off between security and risk is hard to evaluate and there is a bias for ignoring ...

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Security training – does it help?

I came across the suggestion to train (nearly) everyone in the organization in security subjects. The idea is very good, we often have this problem that the management has absolutely no knowledge or interest in security and therefore ignores the subject despite the efforts of the security experts in the company. Developers, quality, documentation, product ...

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Car software security

I stumbled across an article on car software viruses. I did not see anything unexpected really. The experts “hope” to get it all fixed before the word gets out and things start getting messy. Which tells us that things are in a pretty bad shape right now. The funny thing is though that the academic ...

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