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Masters of Disaster Here is a very enlightening paper from Wharton’s Risk Management and Decision Processes Center: http://www.whartonmagazine.com/issues/815.php IT projects fall in the same behavior: Quote: “a psychological bias toward short-term maximization instead of long-term planning—a psychological bias all humans share”. IT Project: short ROIs, code before design and architecture, intuition instead of analytical thinking, [...]

June 13th, 2010 | Tags: behavior, methodology, project, risks | Category: Research | Leave a comment

Often people ask me why I don’t like the use of DNA and other biological markers as identities. My answer can be expressed in two points: Biometric data cannot be repudiated. If your biometrics are compromised you cannot change them like you can do when your personal certificate (or password) is compromised. Biometric data are [...]

August 30th, 2009 | Tags: identity, privacy, process & BPM, risks, security | Category: Mood | Leave a comment

Here is an interesting point of view on security business today from an IBM Security Strategist: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/081709-8-dirty-secrets-of-the.html Among the eight points some are tightly related to enterprise strategy and enterprise architecture. Points 2, 6 and 7 focus on external concerns, regulations and security product vendors, but  others may be summarized like this: what do I [...]

August 21st, 2009 | Tags: architecture, chaos, design, methodology, risks, security | Category: References | Leave a comment