Collaborate Disseminate
If you’ve been tracking the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world, as we have, you’ve doubtless seen a lot of statistics. The raw numbers look shocking, and in many cases they are, but as always it’s crucially important to ask yourself what the numbers mean.
For instance, our …read more
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I want to do a formal cost-benefit analysis of security measures – and hence am looking for hard statistics about the probability / frequency of desktop machines being compromised (not recommendations of how to avoid this). I appreciate th… Continue reading What is the probability of a desktop machine being compromised?
When you think of Florence Nightingale, you probably imagine a nurse with a lamp, comforting soldiers. Indeed, Florence is considered the mother of modern nursing. But she also made serious contributions in statistical data analysis, and used the diagram named after her, the Nightingale rose diagram, to convince the British …read more
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It is customary to begin an article on cybersecurity with some statement about the exponential growth of threats, attacks, vulnerabilities, etc. I’m no different. It seems like a reasonable, generally accepted thing to do. So, I was somewhat surp… Continue reading Are Cybersecurity Intelligence and Security Metrics Statistically Significant?
It is customary to begin an article on cybersecurity with some statement about the exponential growth of threats, attacks, vulnerabilities, etc. I’m no different. It seems like a reasonable, generally accepted thing to do. So, I was somewhat surp… Continue reading Are Cybersecurity Intelligence and Security Metrics Statistically Significant?
Many languages feature a random number generator library for help with tasks like rolling a die or flipping a coin. Why, you may ask, is this necessary when humans are perfectly capable of randomly coming up with values?
[ex-punctis] was curious about the same quandary and decided to code up …read more
The IoT device market is on the rise and is poised to reach $1.1 trillion by 2026 The Internet of Things (IoT) has been a hot topic for decades —…
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We have an overview with known but fixed vulnerabilities for this browsers: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Such lists exist for many other browsers too. We also have such vulnerabilities which were neve… Continue reading How common is the usage of browser zero-days in the wild?
You may not know the name Abraham Wald, but he has a very valuable lesson you can apply to problem solving, engineering, and many other parts of life. Wald worked for the Statistical Research Group (SRG) during World War II. This was part of a top secret organization in the …read more
Continue reading Abraham Wald’s Problem Solving Lesson is to Seek What’s Not There
Here’s the info you need to avoid the phishing scams that leave companies reeling If you read most of the 2018 and 2019 phishing statistics articles, they typically start out…
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