Alex Hutton likes risk, critical thinking, and data. He writes for newschoolsecurity.com dub cloud.com, and Verizon's security blog.

Alex Hutton is a big fan of trying to understand security and risk through metrics and models. Currently, Alex is a principal for Research & Intelligence with the Verizon Business RISK Team. The Verizon RISK Team builds and hones the risk models for Cybertrust services, produces the Verizon Data Breach Investigation, the Verizon's PCI Compliance report, and is responsible for the VERIS data collection and analysis efforts. As a member of the RISK team, Alex also writes regularly for the Verizon Security Blog (http://securityblog.verizonbusiness.com). Alex likes risk and security so much, he spends his spare time working on projects and writing about the subject. Some of that work includes contributions to the Cloud Security Alliance documents, the CIS metrics project, the ISM3 security management standard, and work with the Open Group Security Forum. Alex is a founding member of the Society of Information Risk Analysts (http://societyinforisk.org/), and blogs for their website and records a podcast for the membership. He also blogs at the New School of Information Security Blog (http://www.newschoolsecurity.com).