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Ivan Milenkovic, VP Risk Technology EMEA at Qualys, explains how security leaders can build an economic model that puts money behind their decisions. He suggests starting with a few loss scenarios, then working down to the assets that drive them. He covers how to rank fixes by value at risk, what CFOs expect to see, and how to show the worth of incidents that never happened. He also looks at how one model can serve … More →

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Yusaku Fujii, a professor at Gunma University in Japan, has designed audits and penalties to stop operators from misusing AI that analyzes street camera footage. His system adds an independent record-keeper and unannounced spot checks to the AI’s outputs. Fujii’s test setting is what he calls a Fully Monitored Public Space (FMPS): streets where cameras are dense enough to follow people and vehicles continuously. It can be built with existing network cameras and encrypted storage. … More →

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Most compliance work goes into proving security, not improving it. That isn’t because the rules are unreasonable. Regulators, customers, and cyber insurers are right to expect organizations to implement hundreds of technical and administrative controls, monitor their environments, respond to incidents, and prove that all of it works. The problem is the cost of delivering it. The Pentagon’s own estimate puts a small contractor’s CMMC level 2 compliance at roughly $105,000 over three years. That … More →

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