Security Balance

Schneier has posted a very good post on “Risk intuition” and risk perception in general. This part was particularly interesting:
“[...] I listened to yet another conference presenter complaining about security awareness training. He was talking about the difficulty of getting employees at his company to actually follow his security policies: encrypting data on memory sticks, [...]

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 [...]

I was reading slashdot news when I found this one, that mentions a study requested by UK first minister:
“Usually, ‘thinking of the children’ is a starting point to impose limitations on video games and internet in general. For once, a study requested by UK’s Prime Minister seems to be a bit more objective then most. [...]