Rambling

Mobile Security – Observations from the developing world

By the year 2015 sub-Saharan Africa will have more people with mobile network access than with access to electricity at home. This remarkable fact from a 2011 MobileMonday report came to mind again as I read an article just yesterday about the introduction of Mobile Money in the UK: By the start of next year, every bank customer in the country may have the ability to transfer cash between bank…

Incorporating cost into appsec metrics for organisations

A longish post, but this wasn’t going to fit into 140 characters. This is an argument pertaining to security metrics, with a statement that using pure vulnerability count-based metrics to talk about an organisation’s application (in)security is insufficient, and suggests an alternative approach. Comments welcome. Metrics and statistics are certainly interesting (none of those are infosec links). Within our industry, Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) makes a splash each…