About Xiom.com

More than most other engineering areas, information security is an elusive practice. Practitioners are called both geniuses and gurus, sometimes depicted as white coated lab scientists and sometimes as mavericks. Is it a science or a religion? Is it based on empirical evidence, common sense or believes? Does the data even exist?

This blog attempts to discuss those and related issues by breaking out of the walls of information security, exploring comparative practices as well as relevant research fields such as cognitive psychology and philosophy of science. Some of the specific areas discussed are: riskmanagement, incidents and vulnerabilities statistics, intellectual property, patents and the open source model and information security toolsevaluation and categorization.

Xiom.com is brought to you by Ofer Shezaf, who is currently the chief architect at HP for risk and vulnerability management products, though this site reflects only my own ideas and thoughts and not HP's. You can read more about Ofer here.

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