analyst accuracy (was: Re: Rethinking FUNSEC)

["Aryeh Goretsky (home)" <goretsky () gmail com>]

Hello,

At the risk of injecting a note of seriousness into the discussion,
has anyone ever done a systematic review of analysts' reports on
anti-virus/malware/threat or "endpoint" protection software to see
how accurate the predictions are?  I wonder if there is a measurable
way to quantify that analysts are X% accurate over N years, or some
other type of proof?

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky



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> Subject: Re: [funsec] Rethinking FUNSEC
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> Funsec has hit its peak of inflated expectations and certainly hit 
> its plateau of productivity, due to that we have decided to relegate 
> Funsec to the newly created "Jesters Quadrant".

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