Security claims

Security claims, scored before they reach your budget

Security is the discipline where the loudest numbers most often come from the companies selling the fix.

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The independence component exists for this category specifically. When a figure about breach costs, dwell time, or workforce shortages comes from a vendor whose product addresses that exact problem, the score reflects it. That is not an accusation. It is a disclosure that should already be attached to the number and usually is not.

Threat statistics drift faster than almost anything else. A survey of a few hundred respondents in one region becomes a global percentage. A single quarter becomes a trend. By the time it reaches a board, the sample has vanished and only the number remains.

Each edition takes one such claim, puts the sample and method back on it, and scores what is left.

How every claim is scored

Source quality0 to 20
Peer reviewed, preprint, self-published report, vendor material, or press release.
Sample and method0 to 20
Sample size, how subjects were selected, and whether the underlying data is available.
Independence0 to 20
Does the publisher sell the solution its own finding recommends.
Replication0 to 20
Has anyone independently reproduced it with a comparable method.
Drift0 to 20
How far the popular use of the claim sits from what the source actually says.

Full method at /method/. Every scored claim stays on the record.

Questions

Does it cover specific vulnerabilities?

Only when a claim about one is being used to drive spending. This is not a threat feed. It scores the claims that shape budgets and board conversations.

Why score independence separately?

Because a methodologically sound study published by a company that sells the remedy carries a different weight than the same study from a neutral party, and readers deserve to see that scored rather than assumed.

Is it useful for a non-technical executive?

Yes. The verdict and the score are the summary. The component detail is there if you want to argue with it.

Get every verdict

Two editions a week. One scored claim each.

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