The Power Law of Information

The Power Law of Information

Power laws occur widely and irrefutably in economics, physics, biology, and international relations. The root causes of power laws are hard to determine, but a good theory is that proportional random growth causes the phenomenon. This talk will attempt to prove a power law for breach size and breach occurrence volume, using data from over 30,000 businesses. The goal is to show that no matter the set of breaches one picks, the most impactful breach will have more impact than all the others combined. Information security breaches are scale-invariant and distributed according to a power law.

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