Free Recordings
Here is a small sample of the great talks available to SIRA members. Become a paid SIRA member for only $120/year to show your support for the SIRA mission and get access to the full library of past SIRAcon and webinar recordings.
Free Webinar Recordings
May 29, 2020 - IRIS 20/20 Deep Dive, Jay Jacobs and David Severski
December 18, 2020 - 80/20 Cyber Risk Management: Prioritizing Issues That Matter Most - Apolonio Garcia
March 26, 2021 - All Roads Lead to Risk - Lisa Young
July 30, 2021 - Communicating Quantitative Risk Results to the Board - Lisa Young (plus special guests)
Free SIRAcon Presentations
Down the open source rabbit hole - Kimberlee Price, Microsoft
Evaluator - Open source quantitative risk - David Severski, Starbucks
Measure what matters - Lisa Young, Axio
Data is everywhere - Jay Jacobs, Cyentia Insitute
Crowdsource probability - Tony Martin-Vegue, Lending Club
What the heck is Bayesian Risk Modeling and how do I do it? - Ben Edwards & David Severski
Baby Steps: Easing your company into a quantitative cyber risk program - Tony Martin-Vegue
Who owns the information, owns the world - Jacinthe Galpin
IRIS 20/20 Deep Dive
SPEAKER: Jay Jacobs and David Severski
DATE: May 29th, 2020
The 2020 Information Risk Insights Study (IRIS 20/20) helps clear the fog of uncertainty surrounding cyber risk and helps managers see their way to better data-driven decisions. This ground-breaking study leverages a large dataset from Advisen Ltd. spanning tens of thousands of public breaches over the last decade. Cyentia’s extensive analysis of that dataset yields valuable insights about the frequency and financial impact of cyber incidents to organizations of all types and sizes.
In this SIRA-specific webinar with the Cyentia team you will gain an understanding of the key findings, how the IRIS 20/20 results can inform quantitative risk practices, and get a special deep dive into some of the models that are possible with this research. Whether you are just wanting to make better quick risk decisions based on possible losses or looking for better baselines for quantitative assessments, IRIS has something for you!
80/20 Cyber Risk Management: Prioritizing Issues that Matter Most
SPEAKER: Apolonio Garcia
DATE: December 18, 2020
In IT security, there is a universal truth: we will always have more issues to deal with than we have time, people, and money. This perpetual shortage of resources means security leaders and their teams must continuously prioritize their risks and decide where to apply their limited resources. During this session, we will explore some of the challenges that make prioritizing issues difficult and how a simple principle introduced by 1900 century economist, Vilfredo Pareto, can be used to design an effective risk management process.
All Roads Lead to Risk
SPEAKER: Lisa Young
DATE: March 26th, 2021
Enterprise organizations exist to provide products, services and value to the communities they serve. Whether public or private, government or military, non-profit or profit making, all enterprises need to deliver on their goals and objectives. Risk can impede the enterprise’s ability to be successful in meeting their mission.
Today, more than ever, our dependence on the intangible digital domain, information and technology assets, and virtual connectivity makes managing risk of all types critically important.
To view the slides, click here
Enterprise organizations exist to provide products, services and value to the communities they serve. Whether public or private, government or military, non-profit or profit making, all enterprises need to deliver on their goals and objectives. Risk can impede the enterprise’s ability to be successful in meeting their mission.
Today, more than ever, our dependence on the intangible digital domain, information and technology assets, and virtual connectivity makes managing risk of all types critically important.
To view the slides, click here
SIRACon2018 Presentation: Down the open source rabbit hole
Speaker: Kymberlee Price
Open Source Program Management Lead, Microsoft
Does your organization use open source software? Do you understand the risks inherent in these dependencies and how they are being managed in your environment? After watching Equifax be compromised by an OSS vulnerability, how are you sleeping at night?
Presentation Slides: Down the open source rabbit hole.pptx
SIRACon2018 Presentation: Evaluator - Open source quantitative risk
Speaker: David Severski
Lead Risk Data Scientist, Starbucks
Many risk assessments use qualitative approaches which are resistant to detailed analysis. This session introduces an open source library for the R language for performing a repeatable quantitative risk management at a strategic level which organizations can use to start making real progress in increasing their risk management capabilities.
Presentation Slides: Severski - Evaluator.pptx
SIRACon2018 Presentation: Measuring what Matters
Presenter: Lisa Young
VP Cyber Risk Engineering, Axio / President, SIRA
It is critical to measure the right things in order to make better-informed management decisions, take the appropriate actions, and change behaviors. But how do managers figure out what those right things are? Questions will be posed to help you set objectives for measurement in your organization.
Presentation Slides: Measuring what Matters.pptx
SIRACon2018 Presentation: Data is everywhere
Presenter: Jay Jacobs
Chief Data Scientist, Cyentia Institute
One of the classic complaints in performing risk analysis is the lack of data, or worse, the lack of "actuarial-quality data". This talk will explore data sources and walk through use cases of gathering the data, parsing and aggregating disparate data sources and continue through extracting and applying the information into your next risk analysis.
Presentation Slides: Data is everywhere.pdf
SIRACon2018 Presentation: Crowdsourced probability
Presenter: Tony Martin-Vegue
Director, Technology Risk, Lending Club
Probability estimates are the cornerstone of any good risk assessment in which data is sparse or expensive to come by, and are often thought of as one of the best ways to supplement existing information with subject matter expertise. Many risk analysts, however, can run into issues when trying to integrate the opinions of many subject matter experts into a risk management program. Some of these problems are: seemingly contradictory probability estimates, bias that can creep into results and the challenge of collecting and using large amounts of data.
SIRACon2021 Presentation: What the heck is Bayesian Risk Modeling and how do I do it?
Presenter: Ben Edwards & David Severski
A primordial cybersecurity question facing organizations is “What is an incident going to cost me?”. Many people with a quantitative bent have zero-ed in on Bayesian Modeling as an appropriate methodology for dealing with the uncertainty inherent in cyber risk. Despite the age of the question and the relative consensus (at least at SIRA) around the approach there still exists considerable confusion about exactly how to deploy this methodology.
In this talk we’re going to try to clear up the confusion, and show, in clear simple terms, how to do some basic Bayesian risk analysis. This will include answers to questions like:
“What the heck is probability?”
“Ok, what the heck is ‘Bayesian’ probability?”
“Ah that makes sense, but how do we use those definitions for modeling?”
“Do I need to understand Bayes theorem?” We’ll answer this one now: No.
“But Priors and Posteriors are important right?” Usually, no.
After we clear up the answers to these questions, we’ll take the audience through two basic risk models. First, we’ll use public data (courtesy of the Cyentia IRIS Risk Retina data set) to build a simple Monte Carlo simulation of the losses an organization might experience in a year. Next we’ll do just a little bit of Bayesian inference to show a FAIR-compatible alternative approach. We’ll even include some basic code in a variety of platforms (R, Python and Excel). We’ll end with a call to arms: Stop arguing about frameworks and how you might assess risk. Get out there with the tools you have now and do risk! Give your organization the assessment it needs.
SIRACon2021 Presentation: Baby Steps: Easing your company into a quantitative cyber risk program
Presenter: Tony Martin-Vegue
Risk managers tasked with integrating quantitative methods into their risk programs - or even those just curious about it - may be wondering, Where do I start? Where do I get the mountain of data I need? What if my key stakeholders want to see risk communicated in colors?
Attendees will learn about common myths and misconceptions, learn how to get a program started, and receive tips on integrating analysis rigor into risk culture. When it comes to quant risk, ripping the Band-Aid off is a recipe for failure. Focusing on small wins in the beginning, building support from within, and a positive bedside manner is the key to long-term success.
SIRACon2021 Presentation: Who owns the information, owns the world
Presenter: Jacinthe Galpin
Communicating Quantitative Risk Results to the Board
SPEAKER: Lisa Young (plus special guests)
DATE: July 30th, 2021
Reports are often complex, encompassing cyber threats, unavailability of the workforce, natural disasters, pandemics and many other risk types. How can organizations demonstrate the effectiveness of a risk management program to leadership? Join the July SIRA webinar to learn tips, tricks and techniques to take your reporting to the next level and focus on what matters to leadership.