Rational Cybersecurity for Business

Use the guidance in this comprehensive field guide to gain the support of your top executives for aligning a rational cybersecurity plan with your business. You will learn how to improve working relationships with stakeholders in complex digital businesses, IT, and development environments. You will know how to prioritize your security program, and motivate and retain your team. Misalignment between security and your business can start at the top at the C-suite or happen at the line of business, IT, development, or user level. It has a corrosive effect on any security project it touches. But it does not have to be like this. Author Dan Blum presents valuable lessons learned from interviews with over 70 security and business leaders. You will discover how to successfully solve issues related to: risk management, operational security, privacy protection, hybrid cloud management, security culture and user awareness, and communication challenges. This open access book presents six priority areas to focus on to maximize the effectiveness of your cybersecurity program: risk management, control baseline, security culture, IT rationalization, access control, and cyber-resilience. Common challenges and good practices are provided for businesses of different types and sizes. And more than 50 specific keys to alignment are included. What You Will Learn Improve your security culture: clarify security-related roles, communicate effectively to businesspeople, and hire, motivate, or retain outstanding security staff by creating a sense of efficacy Develop a consistent accountability model, information risk taxonomy, and risk management framework Adopt a security and risk governance model consistent with your business structure or culture, manage policy, and optimize security budgeting within the larger business unit and CIO organization IT spend Tailor a control baseline to your organization’s maturity level, regulatory requirements, scale, circumstances, and critical assets Help CIOs, Chief Digital Officers, and other executives to develop an IT strategy for curating cloud solutions and reducing shadow IT, building up DevSecOps and Disciplined Agile, and more Balance access control and accountability approaches, leverage modern digital identity standards to improve digital relationships, and provide data governance and privacy-enhancing capabilities Plan for cyber-resilience: work with the SOC, IT, business groups, and external sources to coordinate incident response and to recover from outages and come back stronger Integrate your learnings from this book into a quick-hitting rational cybersecurity success plan Who This Book Is For Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and other heads of security, security directors and managers, security architects and project leads, and other team members providing security leadership to your busines

Some comparative economics of the organization of sports: competition and regulation in north American vs. European professional team sports leagues

This article contends that a new research avenue is open to comparative economics which is the economic comparison between American (closed) and European (open) professional team sports leagues. It starts with sketching the major institutional differences between the two leagues systems. Then it surveys the American modelling of competitive balance in these sports leagues that objects pro-competitive balance regulation as being non Walrasian when (American) teams are profit maximising. A next step is to cover how the Walrasian model has been adapted to European open leagues and their regulation of win maximising clubs under a hard budget constraint. Such approach has recently been outdated by models where win maximising clubs operate with a flexible supply of talent in a non cooperative game, given the globalization of the labour market for sporting talent (namely after the Bosman case). Finally, the article ploughs into a new research path advocating for a disequilibrium model where clubs would have a "soft" budget constraint rooted in their weak governance, and empirically tests a vicious circle between TV rights revenues and wages in French football that may explain the aforementioned disequilibrium.sports economics, comparative economics, economic organisation, governance, sports leagues, Walrasian model, Nash equilibrium, competitive balance, regulation, soft budget constraint, TV rights, wages, profit maximising, win maximising

The Effects of Preference Characteristics and Overconfidence on Economic Incentives

This dissertation is a collection of three independent research papers and three chapters with surveys introducing into the respective literature. The first paper analyses the effects of introducing Inequity Aversion in a Moral Hazard Problem, the second paper is about optimal delegation in groups involved in contests, and the third paper is about the optimal delegation decision of firms who can hire possibly overconfident managers.Incentives; Inequity Aversion; Contracts; Strategic Delegation; Overconfidence

Easterner, Vol. 21, No. 3, October 7, 1970

This issue includes articles about changes to general graduation requirements, the campus renters\u27 union, upcoming student elections, new buildings built on campus, a federal grant to aid rural students, the college football season, the gymnastics team, who are defending a title, communications between the athletics department and Associated Students about athletic funding, and women\u27s fashion on campus. An article has been cut out of the front page of this issue.https://dc.ewu.edu/student_newspapers/1392/thumbnail.jp

Judicial Review of Defensive Tactics in Proxy Contests: When is Using a Rights Plan Right?

Incumbent management has long enjoyed broad discretion in its use of Rights Plans in proxy contests and joint offers. Legal scholars have accepted the justifications for permitting incumbents such latitude with little comment. The courts also have largely deferred to management's decisions about how they use Rights Plans against dissident shareholder groups. The analysis presented here argues that courts should apply stricter standards. A more stringent balancing test that forces incumbents to justify the use of Rights Plans by explaining how the Rights Plan prevents a specific harm to their shareholders would better protectshareholders from abusive defensive tactics. For any particular defensive tactic, a court must question the explanations offered by incumbents and place the burden of persuasion on management to show that they are acting in shareholders' best interest. The courts should invalidate without further judicial inquiry those provisions of Rights Plans that are directed primarily toward impeding dissidents' proxy campaigns. Courts should permit Rights Plans in proxy contests only when the incumbents can show that the contests are necessary parts of the company's tender offer defense, that their impact on the outcome of a proxy contest will be minimal, and that direct benefits to the target company shareholders justify their adverse effects on dissidents' election campaigns. To determine the impact of particular defensive measures on the outcome of proxy contests, the courts should demand that the parties submit statistical evidence and expert testimony about the effects of Rights Plans on the outcome of the proxy contest. Only after examining the impact of the defensive tactic on the outcome of the proxy contests, and finding it justified by the benefit to the target company's shareholders, should a court approve any use of Rights Plans in proxy contests. When the incumbents fail to carry this burden, then the court should strike down these defenses and permit shareholders to exercise their vote in corporate elections freely and without restraint

Judicial Review of Defensive Tactics in Proxy Contests: When Is Using a Rights Plan Right?

Proxy contests have reemerged recently as an important part of the market for corporate control. After years of indifference to corporate elections, dissident shareholders have turned once again to the ballot box as a means of removing unwanted management. In a surprisingly large number of these battles, the challengers have succeeded in getting all or much of what they wanted. The resurgence of proxy contests has sparked renewed interest by incumbent managements in developing powerful new defensive tactics in corporate elections. Incumbents\u27 time-honored campaign strategies, such as switching the annual shareholders\u27 meeting date, or restricting the potential candidates who can run for office, are no longer sufficient to ensure a management victory. In their place incumbents have substituted more drastic measures, such as Rights Plans,\u27 popularly referred rate elections, dissident shareholders have turned once again to the ballot box as a means of removing unwanted management. In a surprisingly large number of these battles, the challengers have succeeded in getting all or much of what they wanted. The resurgence of proxy contests has sparked renewed interest by incumbent managements in developing powerful new defensive tactics in corporate elections. Incumbents\u27 time-honored campaign strategies, such as switching the annual shareholders\u27 meeting date, or restricting the potential candidates who can run for office, are no longer sufficient to ensure a management victory. In their place incumbents have substituted more drastic measures, such as Rights Plans,\u27 popularly referred to as poison pills, that sharply limit, or even eliminate, shareholders\u27 ability to elect the directors of their choice. Should judges permit incumbents to use these powerful defensive tactics to thwart dissident shareholders\u27 efforts to unseat existing managers? This Article argues that the courts have mistakenly favored incumbents in resolving conflicts between incumbents\u27 desire to use defensive tactics to protect themselves and target company shareholders from harmful proxy contests, and the shareholders\u27 need to have an effective mechanism for replacing unwanted (and inefficient) managers

The Development and Present Status of the Intramural Sports Program for Men in the Schools of the North Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and the South Dakota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

In light of the accepted benefits derived from participation in the intramural sports program, educators and physical educators are quite concerned about the present status of intramural sports and are seeking means for the improvement of intramural sports. This can be done by scrutinizing the intramural sports program in two intercollegiate athletic conferences and discovering ways and means of improvement. They are also aware of the great contribution, which the intramural sports program presents, if properly organized and administered. There is always a constant alertness to the various trends and forces which contribute to the intramural sports program. It is the purpose of this study to determine the present status of the intramural sports program for men in two intercollegiate athletic conferences and to obtain ideas as to methods employed in their administration. Through this study the author hopes to find variations which exist due to differences in local situations. Through this compilation of methods and opinions, directors may compare their policies with those of other schools, with the possibility of adding new concepts to their program. This may help them to improve their particular program thereby elevating the intramural sports program to a higher level

The Montana Kaimin, May 9, 1928

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper/2088/thumbnail.jp