Cybersecurity Simplified
Cybersecurity Simplified aims to demystify cybersecurity and make it understandable to business people and managed services providers who aren’t security experts. We explore the latest cybersecurity trends, threats and news with the insight and perspective of CTO David Barton of Overwatch Managed Security by High Wire Networks.
Cybersecurity Simplified
Episode 35: The Science and Art of Forecasting Risk
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Susanna Song
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Season 1
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Episode 35
Veteran Security Practitioner Rick Howard shares how Alan Turing’s ideas and Thomas Bayes' Theorem hold the key to how organizations should forecast risk. Most organizations default to heat maps relying on a low, medium, and high model. But they aren’t reliable. What if we said you’re better off providing risk metrics, that offer ballpark answers and not so much precision? Is it possible to forecast complex things without a lot of data?