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  • Fortinet CFO on Strategy in a Recession
  • Anti-trust hurts consumers
  • Don’t Regulate Cyberinsurance Markets
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    Fortinet CFO on Strategy in a Recession

    February 12th, 2009 · 2 Comments

    Selker Leadership interviewed Fortinet CFO Ken Goldman. Here’s his outlook on the coming year: In terms of ’09, the conventional wisdom says it’s going to be a horrible year – but I never believe conventional wisdom. I think Q1 will be a horrible quarter – a really horrible quarter actually. But that could become a [...]

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    Tags: Economics · Finance · Fortinet

    Anti-trust hurts consumers

    April 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments

    Since Apple has been doing a great job lately at meeting consumer demands, regulators will start harassing them for the crime of giving consumers what they want. Apple’s competition will be happy to encourage them. The eMusic founder thinks the rumored Apple music subscription model won’t pass the anti-trust test in the EU if they [...]

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    Tags: Apple · Economics

    Don’t Regulate Cyberinsurance Markets

    October 3rd, 2007 · 3 Comments

    Any such security regulation can only reduce the amount of wealth and comfort the economy produces because it is foisting one man’s values upon another – “for the public good”. At Bejtlich’s recommendation, I read with great interest Cyberinsurance in IT Security Management by Walter S. Baer and Andrew Parkinson. The bulk of the paper [...]

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    Tags: Economics · Free Markets · Risk · Risk Management · Security · insurance