Open-Sourcing riskquant, a library for quantifying risk

Netflix Technology Blog
Jan 31 · 4 min read

Netflix has a program in our Information Security department for quantifying the risk of deliberate (attacker-driven) and accidental losses. This program started on the Detection Engineering team with a home-grown Python library called riskquant, which we’ve released as open source for you to use (and contribute to). Since that library was written, we have hired two amazing full-time Risk Engineers (Prashanthi Koutha and Tony Martin-Vegue) who are expanding rigorous quantified risk across the company.

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