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3. Risk Analysis: Assets and Impacts

Raymond Pompon

(1)Seattle, Washington, USA

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is.

—Gilbert K. Chesterton

All your decisions regarding security and meeting compliance requirements should be driven by disk. The more accurate the picture of risk you ascertain, the more efficient and effective your security program will be. The next ...

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