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Information Risk Management, 2nd Edition
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Information Risk Management, 2nd Edition

by David Sutton
September 2021
Intermediate to advanced
274 pages
6h 26m
English
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
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6 RISK ANALYSIS AND RISK EVALUATION

The process of risk assessment continues with risk analysis, in which we develop an understanding of the risks. We begin by identifying the likelihood or probability of a threat or hazard having an impact on an information asset, and using that likelihood assessment together with the impact we established earlier, we calculate the overall level of risk.

In risk identification, we examined the general impacts or consequences faced by an information asset, then the threats that might cause them, followed by any vulnerabilities they might possess. These three assessments were carried out in isolation, since at that stage of the risk management process the relationship between them did not matter.

In risk ...

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