CHAPTER 10Risk Assessment and Risk Mitigation
EXAM OBJECTIVES IN THIS CHAPTER
Conduct Risk Assessments and Implement Risk Mitigation
Use Monitoring Tools on Systems and Networks
INTRODUCTION
Risk assessment and risk mitigation involve a wide variety of activity. Risk assessment falls into two primary categories: qualitative and quantitative. Qualitative risk assessments are more general in nature where the assessment team conducts interviews and discussions with stakeholders regarding their opinion of where system risks lie in a network and the impact of those risks to the business as a whole. Quantitative risk assessments are more tangible in that they involve conducting vulnerability assessments as well as analysis of the results gathered to ...
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