Chapter 11. Risk Management and Privacy Impact Assessment

Learning Objectives

After studying this chapter, you should be able to:

  • Explain the overall risk assessment process

  • Provide a comparison of quantitative and qualitative risk assessment

  • Present an overview of the NIST and ISO risk management frameworks

  • Explain the major options for risk treatment

  • Explain the purpose of a privacy threshold analysis

  • Describe the major steps in a privacy impact analysis

  • Explain the purpose of a privacy impact analysis report

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) describes a privacy impact assessment (PIA), referred to in the regulation as a data protection impact assessment, in the following terms:

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