The Security Risk Assessment Handbook, 3rd Edition

14 Security Risk Assessment Approaches

There are nearly as many security risk assessment approaches as there are organizations that perform them. It is not the intent of this book to define the best or only approach for performing security risk assessments. In fact, it seems clear that different approaches to performing a security risk assessment are required for different situations. Various security risk assessment approaches are discussed here for two reasons.

First, it is important to understand the different approaches that have been developed and are currently in use to perform a security risk assessment. Those performing these assessments should always be looking for ways to improve the process through the adoption of new techniques or ...