Cyberstrategics

This week I completed a presentation on complex event processing at Wealth Management Asia 2007 where I had a chance to field some tough questions from risk management experts working for some of the top banks in the region.
In particular, one of the meeting attendees voiced strong scepticism over emerging event processing technologies.   The basis for his scepticism was, in his [...]

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We just completed the 7th Cyber Defense Initiative Conference 2007 in Bangkok.   There were more than 700 attendees in the main conference hall and nearly 300 people in the exhibition areas, bringing the total of attendees to approximately 1000 people, according to the conference organizers.
I had many opportunities to discuss event processing and security with a number of Thai business [...]

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Opher asks in his blog, Is there a non-event event ? on absence as a pattern.
All “non-event” examples that the event processing community has offered, to date, have been based on the premise that an event is created when something does not happen based on time, schedule or a timer - and many seem to want to [...]

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Here are the details for my December 12, 2007 presentation at The Asia Business Forum: Information Security Risk Assessment & Management, Royal Orchid Sheraton, Bangkok, Thailand:
11:15 - 12:15
CEP and SOA: An Event-Driven Architecture for Operational Risk Management
–  Review the business and market drivers for event-driven Operational Risk Management (ORM)
–  Learn about Complex Event Processing (CEP)
–  Dive into the [...]

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Opher Etzion has kindly asked me to write a paragraph or two on commercial-off-the-shelf  (COTS) software versus (hard) coding software in event processing applications. 
My thoughts on this topic are similar to my earlier blog musings, Latency Takes a Back Seat to Accuracy in CEP Applications.
If you buy a EP engine (today) because it permits you run some quick-and-dirty [...]

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The Asia Business Forum is hosting a conference on Information Security Risk Assessment & Management, December 12-13 2007 at the Sheraton Royal Orchid in Bangkok.   The conference organizers have kindly invited me to participate as a guest speaker.   I plan to discuss CEP in the context of operational risk management and will post the title and abstract my talk [...]

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Opher asks, The only motivation to use EP COTS is to cope with high performance requirements” - true or false?.
The answer: True and False.
If high performance is discussed in the context of event processing speed and latency, then it is Absolutely False that speed and latency are the most important performance criteria for event processing applications. 
Detection accuracy (the performance of [...]

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Here is another top ten cybersecurity threat for 2008.  After I post all ten, I might reorder them, so please hang with me until the end, thanks!  
One of the most critical threats for 2008 continues to be:
      — Password and Identity Theft from Phishing, Spyware, Malware and Theft of Hardware.
It goes without saying that our passwords are “the keys to [...]

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