Annie Searle & Associates LLC (also known as ASA) has just published Reflections on Risk II (ISBN 978-0-9839347-6-9), two years after the first volume was issued.

There are a total of 14 authors for the 26 research notes to be found in the new volume, all either graduates or upcoming graduates of the University of Washington’s Master of Science in Information Management (MSIM) degree program.  The volume is edited by MSIM graduate Emily Oxenford, ASA’s 2010-2011 research associate. She organized the research notes into the following chapters: Critical Infrastructure, Privacy, Finance, Data Security, Building Resiliency in the IT Sector, and Policies and Governance.  

Links to the book will be available by February 15, both on Searle’s Advice From A Risk Detective blog, and at amazon.com.  The series is designed to be readable by senior executives as well as subject matter experts.  “As they leave the university with their degrees and become part of a new generation of practitioners, I expect [the authors] to begin to reshape public and private sector understandings of risk frameworks, ethics, policy, strategy and opportunity,” said Searle, who teaches at the university and whose firm participates in the UW iSchool’s internship program.

UW senior lecturer Mike Crandall says that the new volume provides “a glimpse into the minds that will be shaping our future.”  MSIM students/ASA interns who, since 2009, have provided the core foundation of research notes for this series are:  Akshay Bhagwatwar, Shirish Munshi, Emily Oxenford, Andrew Hansen, Devin Luco, and Divya Yadav.  Authors of the Reflections on Risk II volume are:  Daniel Arnaudo, Swati Chaturvedi, Andrew Hansen, Delbert Hazeley, Abbas Khambati, Ilya Krivulin, Devin Luco, Jess Mauer, Suzann Parker, Chitra Raman, Rashmi Shekhar, Rajesh Subramanian, Travis J. Warren, and Divya Yadav.