Innovation advisory and IRM/InfoSec/I-Audit services. Positive contrarian, inspirator, loosen-upper.
[Terug naar de hoofdpagina] Zelf schrijven – een goed plan. Maar voor wie; welke toon, welke taal, welke boodschappen …? Allemaal smoesjes wat mij betreft2, want het voornaamste is: Geen tijd, writer’s block, andere prio’s, etc. … Zowel voor de boeken, in alle richtingen, als voor de artikelen, vooral in zakelijke richting. Het zijn nogal … Continue reading “Zelf schrijven”
[Terug naar de hoofdpagina] Jaja ik lees wat af. Vooral Filosofie (de Pre-Socratici en vergelijkbaar ouwe Grieken, Aristoteles, Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Mahabharata dat werk), Geschiedenis (vooral pre-1900 en ook incl religie-vorming around the world met name qua gnostiek en de vele aanverwanten en vergelijkbaren), Sociologie (van vroege culturen in het Midden-Oosten t/m Arendt, Graeber … Continue reading “Lezende”
Too bad the ‘fraud triangle’ endures… Despite having been torn; down or to pieces, or whatev’… and some handy pages helping you out. To see that when you use those words often, they may not mean what you think they mean … [anyone see the pleonasm in this page its title ..?] My take: 1. … Continue reading “When Actor meets Opportunity, fraud sparks may fly”
Recently, I floated the idea to use a portfolio approach to risk management its controls aspects, highlighting (positive or negative) correlations in their (positive or negative) effectiveness, individually and overall. This could be extended to include derivation of an optimal portfolio given a max of e.g., costs which must include the cost of harrassing your … Continue reading “The No Kill Portfolio”
Welkom. Zonder omhaal, met de Blog hier (definitely not optimised for mobile but it is mostly in a form somewhat in the vicinity of English), hierbij de dienstverlening van Maverisk, altijd in stijl, en altijd denkend in termen van risico’s – zodat u verder kunt met leuke dingen… Daarbij als memorie van toelichting dat onderstaande … Continue reading “Old home”
On several occasions it struck me that, adviseconsulting on subjects like AI deployment and information risk management [usually not in one go], nowadays the relation between company ‘size’ and headcount seems to have gone less strictly linear. Like, there’s still a lot of big org’s out there that do have large numbers of fte’s [Skipping … Continue reading “Small. ish. Nope.”
Hey that’s refreshing! A report that was only just saved from another round of archiving department directories. By means of this report, we are reminded that 2019 is quite similar – UK English for ‘not a hair different from’ – 2009. Or 1999. Or so. the latter, maybe a bit less, as then, even some … Continue reading “Audit-abilities”
The Dutch Central Bank released a discussion paper on general principles. On AI in Finance. Here. Oh my. What a great attempt it seemed. But by simply reading it, before studying, one finds … the usual suspect #fail’s. Like, the decades-old big Error of non-orthagonality (Basel-II big-time #fail in Ops Risk, remember?). The principles have … Continue reading “Dreaming of oversight, AI version: the wrong dream.”
Zomaar wat quotes over Jurgen / a random set of quotes about Jurgen: A passion for his work, a great eye for detail, preparing the now for the future and a conceptional thinker with mud on his hands. During discussions, some of them attending very difficult subjects, Jurgen had always a sharp eye for the … Continue reading “Quotes”
Yet another reminder that Real risk management may not be too different from management. In that, as said before (here), one would need to start at the start to make progress, like changing the ones responsible, through making them responsible. Which cannot be done other than through job descriptions. Like this one, the reminder. So, … Continue reading “Start at the start, first in line is on the job”