risk analysis in comment and analysis
Woolly risk analysis is hastening a housing crash
Comment They have only to ensure their risk assessment systems are sophisticated enough to provide real-time feedback on potential defaults. Real-time data systems enable total flexibility in a lending institution's response to... [03 Jul 2008]
Whose data is it anyway?
Comment Dilemmas of Privacy and Surveillance: Challenges of Technological Change makes sober reading in the light of recent events but it also offers a series of sensible recommendations spanning systems design, risk... [17 Dec 2007]
Time to rethink performance management
Comment The financial services sector is one of the most progressive when it comes to managing business and IT risk. Research among senior business managers in the investment and insurance community in the City of London... [04 Dec 2007]
Avoiding the next Northern Rock
Comment Balancing the appetite for risk and reward is a well-understood principle of business - but risk must be managed actively and continuously. Zero-trust management is a logical and straightforward concept,... [15 Oct 2007]
Dear silicon.com... McInternet, FON in the UK, safety first, e-fraud...
Comment To my way of seeing thing Health and Safety experts generally don't seem to do Risk Benefit Analysis looking at the wider picture. Peter Cochrane's Blog: No risk, no progress... [11 Oct 2007]
Tech can make or break a merger
Comment There is a danger that this lack of operational engagement creates blind spots that leave a CIO at risk of becoming a victim, rather than the hero of the hour. There is a real risk of damage to customer... [25 Sep 2007]
The tech requirements of private equity funds
Comment There is now more analysis of how and where technology improves the efficient operation and risk management of the funds. Among their major proposals are publication of yearly accounts, better collection... [20 Aug 2007]
Is outsourcing too risky?
Comment Companies that approach outsourcing methodically will actually be able to decrease their overall risk. No matter what the reason is for outsourcing key IT processes, there's always an element of risk. [23 Jul 2007]
How to insure your IT
Comment But such fines are uninsurable, explains Chris Fitzgerald, managing director of specialist IT insurance broker FRD Risk Solutions. When the Nationwide Building Society recently suffered the theft of an employee's laptop... [17 Jul 2007]
How do you get your head around 'risk'?
Comment As Dave Martin, principle information security consultant at LogicaCMG, puts it: "If you haven't undertaken risk analysis, then how can you know that you have spent your time and money covering the real... [06 Jul 2007]
IT and compliance: A risk management 'odd couple'
Comment Handling compliance and risk have become inescapable elements of the modern CIO's role as they strive to ensure the business can forge ahead while not exposing areas of weakness or potential liability. [02 Jul 2007]
Is Skype secure enough for businesses?
Comment While Skype is addressing the vulnerabilities in its software, several potential threats remain and, according to industry experts, they pose too much of a risk for businesses to condone its use. Mark Osborne, chief... [02 Apr 2007]
Plugging and preventing data leaks
Comment Simply having base-line security in place is not good enough: if security is set too high, it will impede the business, and if the bar is set too low, then confidential information may be at risk. In today's knowledge... [07 Mar 2007]
Why the Linux desktop dream is over
Comment Famously the London Borough of Newham was involved in open source desktop trials before declaring that switching to Linux posed "unacceptable levels of risk" and then signing a new deal with Microsoft. [08 Nov 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: What are the risks?
Comment Everywhere I go people and organisations seem obsessed with risk-analysis and assessment. Often it appears, on the face of it anyway, that the analysis process has an overall cost that... [16 Oct 2006]
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