Category Archives: Data Science

SIRAcon Attendees, Start Your Engines

Michael Roytman October 25, 2013

“Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine.” – Peter Sondergaard, SVP Gartner This week I attended SIRAcon in Seattle, a conference hosted by the Society of Information Risk Analysts. I spoke about the methodology behind Risk I/O’s “fix what matters” approach to vulnerability management, and how we use live vulnerability and real-time breach data… Read more »

Introducing the Risk Meter

Ed Bellis October 8, 2013

You may have noticed we’ve been publishing a lot of information lately on what factors go into the likelihood of a successful exploit. Our presentation at BSidesLV and subsequent events touched on some of the work we’ve been doing based on our processing of over a million successful breaches we have observed across the internet. While this data continues to… Read more »

Stop Fixing All The Things – Our BSidesLV Talk

Michael Roytman August 6, 2013

Last week at BSidesLV, Ed Bellis and I presented our view on how vulnerability statistics should be done. We think it’s a different and useful approach to vulnerability assessments. Our contention is that the definitions of vulnerabilities in NVD and OSVDB are just that – definitions. As security practitioners, we care about which vulnerabilities matter. Much like looking at a… Read more »

Data Fundamentalism

Michael Roytman April 26, 2013

A Tale of Two Uncertainties There are fields where precision is of the utmost importance. In fields of exploration (physics, chemistry, arguably mathematics), we attempt to seek out the truths of the world around us, to get better and better models of what’s going on. In fields of manufacturing (chocolate making, farming, engine casting) precision matters because it produces better… Read more »

Metricon 8 From Outside the Establishment: Size Does(n’t?) Matter.

Michael Roytman March 8, 2013

This was my first time attending RSA, and on top of that I am fairly new to the Security industry. If RSA were a Senate race, I would be Ashley Judd. I am not, however, new to statistics. The following is an outsider’s perspective on Metricon, one without any preconceptions of the space. Spoiler: to be more secure as an… Read more »