Software vendors, like other types of organizations, may in fact be worthy of customers’ trust, but it is at least a semantic mistake for any buyer to say they trust software.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released an updated guide to its Risk Management Framework (RMF) in December when it published the final public draft of Special Publication 800-39. Among several areas where the…
There is no shortage of post-hoc analysis on how a quarter million State Department cables and other documents were acquired and sent to WikiLeaks, how a recurrence of such an incident might be avoided, or on…
There is wide variation on the most effective means to foster or achieve cooperation between organizations, but trust is one of several mechanisms often suggested that can have an enabling effect on cooperation, alone or in…
One of the more challenging aspects of addressing organizational trust (whether between individuals and organizations or between two or more organizations) is the inherent subjectivity involved in determining the trustworthiness of organizations and making decisions to…
The joint announcement last week by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Defense (DoD) to formalize a cooperative relationship between the two agencies to provide coordinated cybersecurity operations to protect government computing…
While the core topic of this blog is managing trust, one recurring theme that serves as a sort of preliminary consideration to trust management is making sense of trust as a fundamental concept and, especially, understanding…
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