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Information Security and Enterprise Risk Management

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By Steven Minsky on November 16, 2006 9:46 AM 2 Vote 0 Votes
Security of information is critical to all corporations and is one of the many areas of competency established with Enterprise Risk Management. The weakness of traditional risk management is the focus on historical precedence rather than forward looking investigative approach.... Read More..
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Amaranth Advisors revealed; The Emperor has no clothes

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By Steven Minsky on October 26, 2006 9:53 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes
Amaranth Advisors lost roughly $5 billion in a week, and this is from a hedge fund that boasted of world-class risk-management systems. The result is a loss of 50% of the company’s asset base best summarized by this USAToday headline... Read More..
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BP Oil Pipeline Leak: A Cry for Enterprise Risk Management

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By Steven Minsky on October 5, 2006 9:25 AM 1 Vote 0 Votes
Whenever there is a disaster or event that causes losses, it is usually proven that someone or several employees in middle management or on the front lines had been forecasting the event years before but no action had been taken.... Read More..
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NYSE CEO speaks out on IT risk, Part II with Opinion Poll

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By Steven Minsky on July 18, 2006 8:17 AM 1 Vote 0 Votes
Based on the opinion poll within my last blog, interest was highest for the question: How to surface common knowledge security issues that management doesn't know about? You are in good company. At the SIA risk conference I had the... Read More..
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Intelligence Failures, Part II: Risk Management is the Answer

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By Steven Minsky on June 15, 2006 9:57 AM 1 Vote 0 Votes
In my last Blog I referenced the article History of Intelligence Failures illustrating the most spectacular military intelligence failures over the course of history. I also presented my adapted list of the 6 most important root cause reasons resulting in... Read More..
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Big Blue and Bird Flu?

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By Steven Minsky on June 6, 2006 9:56 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes
IBM announced today their newest Risk Management service offering, Contingency Planning Assessment in their press release, IBM TO HELP COMPANIES DETERMINE PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS. I had the opportunity to speak with Rich Cocchiara, IBM Distinguished Engineer & CTO for Business Resilience... Read More..
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Steven Minsky is CEO of LogicManager Inc., a leading provider of ERM infrastructure solutions. He is the developer of the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) Risk Maturity Model for ERM, author of the RIMS "State of ERM 2008" Report and a RIMS Fellow (RF) instructor on ERM. He is a patent author of risk and process management technology and holds MBA and MA degrees from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and The Joseph H. Lauder Institute of International Management. You can reach Steven at steven.minsky@logicmanager.com. View more

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