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Chapter 13

Security Risk Assessment 

Approaches

ere are nearly as many security risk assessment approaches as there are organiza-

tions that perform them. It is not the intent of this book to dene the best or only

approach for performing security risk assessments. In fact, it seems clear that dierent

approaches to performing a security risk assessment are required for dierent situa-

tions. Various security risk assessment approaches are discussed here for two reasons.

First, it is important to understand the dierent approaches that have been

developed and are currently in use to perform a security risk ...