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Managing Risk Through Acceptance and Assignment
Last week, we looked at risk mitigation. If you do something to reduce your vulnerability to a threat, or the impact of that threat, the risk goes down. Your personal firewall, your ...
Risk Management: Risk Mitigation
Last week, I started talking about risk management by talking about how it relates to something as mundane as forgetting your car keys. I’m going to stick with that analogy as we ...
Governance Part 3: Policies
In Part 2, we discussed the Missions, Visions, and Charters, which define a task, lay out an overall strategy for accomplishing that task, and authorize someone to do it. Today, we’ll discuss ...
Risk management example: my tire
I was going continue the governance series today by writing about policies, but I had the idea to use my last few days to show how theory turns into practice. In particular, ...
Risk Management: YOU Are a risk manager!
Risk management. Assessment, Vulnerabilities, threats, and impact. Mitigation, assignment, acceptance. If you don’t do security for a living, or do it as a purely technical activity, these can sound like terms from ...
