Comments on: Risk Geeks http://thurston.halfcat.org/blog/2006/08/28/risk-geeks/ We are the people your IT department warned you about Fri, 9 Jan 2009 13:20:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Chandler Howell http://thurston.halfcat.org/blog/2006/08/28/risk-geeks/#comment-24303 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 21:00:27 +0000 http://thurston.halfcat.org/blog/2006/08/28/risk-geeks/#comment-24303 My data analysis lifecycle runs roughly like: You gather a Fact. Get enough of them and you have data. Get someone to interpret the data and you have information. Get someone to do something as a result of that analysis and you have decisions. My data analysis lifecycle runs roughly like:
You gather a Fact.
Get enough of them and you have data.
Get someone to interpret the data and you have information.
Get someone to do something as a result of that analysis and you have decisions.

]]> by: Alex Hutton http://thurston.halfcat.org/blog/2006/08/28/risk-geeks/#comment-24299 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:45:13 +0000 http://thurston.halfcat.org/blog/2006/08/28/risk-geeks/#comment-24299 Thanks for the kind words. Depends on your perspective/"state of nature" - most "metrics" collected with Richard's "Hands-On Technical Skills" to this point are information to the people who collect them. However to the risk analyst it's still just data, as it usually does not tell us all we need to know concerning threat capabilility or frequency, and rarely includes any "value" calculation. But yeah, I should be much less "technically specific" in using my terms. Like I said, we're risk geeks :) Thanks for the kind words.

Depends on your perspective/”state of nature” - most “metrics” collected with Richard’s “Hands-On Technical Skills” to this point are information to the people who collect them. However to the risk analyst it’s still just data, as it usually does not tell us all we need to know concerning threat capabilility or frequency, and rarely includes any “value” calculation.

But yeah, I should be much less “technically specific” in using my terms. Like I said, we’re risk geeks :)

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