[HN Gopher] Open-sourcing Riskquant, a library for quantifying risk
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       Open-sourcing Riskquant, a library for quantifying risk
        
       Author : el_duderino
       Score  : 61 points
       Date   : 2020-03-09 19:07 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (netflixtechblog.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (netflixtechblog.com)
        
       | rubyfan wrote:
       | This seems like applying insurance modeling to security. Is this
       | a new way of looking at risk or a reinvention?
        
         | Eridrus wrote:
         | This is part of an attempt to make information security risk
         | modelling more quantitative that has been going on for a few
         | years. There's very little in the way of large scale data to
         | really back most of this up, but actually putting numbers to
         | things is significant progress IMO.
        
         | im_down_w_otp wrote:
         | Looks like parts of FMEA w/ some specific measurements to
         | inform occurance & severity.
        
       | fancyfredbot wrote:
       | It doesnt seem to have an input for correlation between the loss
       | scenarios? That would affect expected loss a lot.
        
       | leecb wrote:
       | Requires registration to read.
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       | Tab closed.
        
       | thenightcrawler wrote:
       | Nassim Nicholas Taleb is enraged by this!
        
         | rq1 wrote:
         | Why would he be?
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         | I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a
         | hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
        
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