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Chris Anderson: The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
Long Tail > Fat Head; Participation > Broadcast; Niche > Big.
John S. Quarterman: Risk Management Solutions for Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 IT Compliance
Beyond SOX. Beyond the firewall, into the Internet, where nobody controls everything, and security must become risk management
Jared Diamond: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
The author examines societies from the smallest (Tikopia) to the largest (China) and why they have succeeded or failed, where failure has included warfare, poverty, depopulation, and complete extinction. He thought he could do this purely through examining how societies damaged their environments, but discovered he also had to consider climate change, hostile neighbors, trading partners, and reactions of the society to all of those, including re-evaluating how the society's basic suppositions affect survival in changed conditions.
Peter L. Bernstein: Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
A highly readable backgrounder on the evolution of risk management, from probabilities to joint stock companies.
Stefan Frei, Secunia
The security of end-user PCs -- an empirical analysis, is destroying our preconceptions: the worst unpatched software is not from Microsoft. MSFT has more or less gotten its act together with automated updates. The biggest offenders (on MSFT platforms) are: firefox, safari, Java, and Chrome.
Secunia PSI is offering a patch update service for non-MSFT software.
Posted by: jsqrisk | August 17, 2010 at 10:25 AM
Stefan Frei: Opera had slowest update mechanism. Secunia got big press including that. Within 6 months Opera announced new update mechanism.
Posted by: jsqrisk | August 17, 2010 at 10:26 AM
WUSTL introducer mentioned U.S. News and World Report ranking of universities:
http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges
Posted by: jsqrisk | August 17, 2010 at 10:28 AM
Manos Antonakakis, Damballa
Building a Dynamic Reputation System for DNS, speaking now, is a Nick Feamster (gatech) collaborator.
Posted by: jsqrisk | August 17, 2010 at 10:29 AM
NCFTA: anonymity, quid pro quo among private entities, and FBI as last resort for legal action
http://www.ncfta.net/main/home/
Similar initiative in Canada:
http://mediarelations.concordia.ca/pressreleases/archives/2008/07/new_canadian_cyber_forensic_or.php
Others planned in IT, DE.
Posted by: jsqrisk | August 17, 2010 at 12:44 PM