To paraphrase an old saying: “One person’s prevention is another person’s protection.” This may well apply to the wearing of…
Prevention lies somewhere between avoidance and protection, and preventative methods can belong to either. For example, what is stopping outsiders…
There are a number of confusing differences of opinion with respect to handling the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of the confusion…
Like many others during this stay-at-home period, I have been sorting through old articles and reports, culling out those that…
The more “mature” among us may recall when decision-making under uncertainty was based on the concept of “rational economic man.”…
Systems use negative feedback in order to converge to stability and equilibrium (a positive quest). Positive-feedback systems diverge, which leads…
There is a cartoon in The New Yorker of March 30, 2020 showing four mobsters, one with a gun, sitting…
There are a number of different types of models—and the output from each must be viewed and used differently depending…
Recently, I happened upon a short article about the demise of internal data centers in favor of cloud services. The…
We have discussed previously, such as in my May 18, 2020 BlogInfoSec column, some of the more challenging characteristics of…