Jeremy’s Brain Dump

Here is the first part of an article I wrote that tries to explain what the Federal Information Security Management Act is. It gives a brief overview and the starts through the 7 steps.

Here is an article I wrote regarding the basics of Access Controls. It deals mostly with AC in Information Assurance.

Here are some equations which are important points when studying for your PMP exam.

Program Evaluation Review Technique (PERT)
This equation takes three estimates, Optimistic, Realistic, and Pessimistic, and averages them out with a weight given to Realistic. (Continued)

This uses LaTeX to generate equations. Then an image is generated from the LaTeX.
Tutorials for this:
http://www.andy-roberts.net/misc/latex/latextutorial9.html
http://www.andy-roberts.net/misc/latex/latextutorial10.html
http://www.forkosh.com/mimetextutorial.html

How do you define security? To some people, firewalls immediately comes to mind. To others, process and procedures are the first things they think of. Other people think about guards and guns.

I like to think of security as risk management. A vulnerability exists. This is a possible flaw in your system. A threat exists. This is something to take advantage of the vulnerability. This is your threat vulnerability pair. When you put these together you get your risk. To protect yourself you need to mitigate and manage this risk. (Continued)