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Monthly Archive July, 2009

+/- 40% accuracy and we think it’s good?

I was caught by surprise when I was reading Matthew Rosenquist post on the IT@Intel blog by this information about the OCTAVE methodology:
“I have observed the accuracy to be +/- 40% in complex organizations.  I believe this is largely due to multiple tiers of qualitative-to-quantitative analysis and the bias introduced at each level.  Credible [...]

NMAP 5 released

It’s kind of stupid to post it in yet another blog, but this will be just a quick note to mention the new NMAP version and also point to a very good post on the SecuriTeam blog about what’s new in the new version. A very good summary.

Dunbar’s number and security

I’ve just finished Malcolm Gladwell’s book The Tipping Point. As usual, Gladwell’s books always bring food for thought on security for me. Security is deeply related to human behaviour, the main subject of his books. The most interesting thing from TP for security is the Dunbar’s number. Honestly, when I read about it I thought [...]