Toward risk assessment of large-impact and rare events

IEEE Security and Privacy

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 21-27

  Hole, Kjell J ^a   Netland, Lars Helge ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Bouvet ASA ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Black swan; Gray swan; Hard to predict and rare events; Identity systems; Large impact; LHR; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; BLACK SWAN; GENERIC MODELS; RARE EVENT; RISK ASSESSMENT METHODS;

FORECASTING; RISK MANAGEMENT;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 77952894212     PISSN: 15407993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2010.55     Document Type: Article

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