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Chapter 30. Risk Assessment

Solutions in this chapter

• Risk Management Basics

• Risk Assessment Components

• Threat Assessment Methodology

• Vulnerability Assessment

  Summary

Introduction

In this chapter, we’re going to discuss the concept and practical application of risk management. We’ll look at the broad business perspective, the practical business continuity and disaster recovery planning perspective, and the IT-centric perspective. We’ll look at risk management to understand the overall process, then delve into the risk assessment process. This is where the first phase of project work begins.

To help you keep track of where we are in our overall planning ...