CHAPTER 9
Risk Management
In this chapter, you will learn:
• Critical controls
• Security policy
• IT risk management
Risk management encompasses an enormous amount of what we do as security professionals. Actually, risk management comes with just the act of living your life. Every day you make decisions based on evaluating risk, whether it’s deciding if the milk for your cereal has spoiled or determining if you can make it through the traffic light before it changes and a car comes through from another direction. Whereas many people have to make some level of risk assessment in their jobs on a daily basis, a security professional spends his or her life engaged in constant risk assessment in order to determine what they can or should ...
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