From Heatmaps to Histograms: A Practical Guide to Cyber Risk Quantification

Acknowledgments

Isaac Newton once wrote, “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” I’ve always liked that line, for both its poetry and its truth. Great ideas rarely come from solitary brilliance. They come from borrowing, learning, being corrected, and building on work that came before your own.

This book would not exist without a small group of people who fundamentally shaped how I think about risk, uncertainty, and what it means to do this work well.

First and foremost, Jack Jones. Jack paved the way for bringing rational, defensible, quantitative thinking into cybersecurity at a time when the field simply wasn’t ready to hear it. FAIR didn’t just introduce a model; it introduced a way of thinking that made serious ...