Risk Assessment

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A cybersecurity risk assessment can help you to determine the likelihood of an incident, potential directions of compromise, impact of an incident, and focus the organisation on the best use of resources. The following nine steps provide a baseline to a cybersecurity risk assessment process aligned with ISO/IEC 27001

With over 10 years in the market and 2,500 global downloads, vsRisk™ has been helping organisations all over the world carry out successful risk assessments. Over the last decade, technology has developed at an astonishing rate bringing about exciting solutions which have enabled individuals and organisations to store their information on the Cloud. However, with the number of benefits that the technology offers, there also came a huge risk of data loss.

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Risk assessment is the core competence of information security management. Information security management decisions are entirely driven by the outcome of a risk assessment in relation to identified risks and specific information assets. Risk assessment enables expenditure on controls to be balanced against the business harm likely to result from security failures. New video!! Watch our latest video and see how vsRisk can help you easily and effectively undertake your risk assessment project in

A survey on Enterprise-wide Cyber Risk Management Practices was released this month by Zurich Financial Services Group (Zurich). The report, entitled A New Era In Information Security and Cyber Liability Risk Management, revealed some really interesting findings on information security and cyber risks across a broad array of industries.

When researching risk assessment methodologies for carrying out an information security risk assessment you will no doubt be confronted by two terms - Qualitative and Quantitative. Then you may be wondering ‘what should I do now?’

Increasingly, companies are adopting an ISO27002 code of best practice for information security management systems (ISMS). ISO/IEC 27002:2005 provides an excellent approach the management of risk.

Storing unprotected data creates real security risks for organisations of all sizes. Assessing potential dangers will help you determine the appropriate response to cyberattacks, improper data handling or threats before they happen. What you need is a tool that will help you assess these risks to ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability (CIA) of information.

I have recently been researching the information security challenges faced by organisations which have decided to adopt cloud based technology to run their IT systems. Cloud despite the hype is not new technology and managed shared applications and infrastructure have been with us for many years. What has really changed is the speed and reliability of these services coupled with a dramatic reduction in the cost. Low costs have particularly attracted small to medium sized companies who sadly ofte

They come in twos. Risk assessment and risk treatment constitute core elements of risk management, a process that allows managers to balance the operational and economic costs of protective measures and achieve gains in mission capability by protecting the IT systems and data that supports their organisation’s missions. Without risk assessment (RA) risk treatment (RT) cannot be carried out and vice versa, RT cannot be done without RA.

All organisational activities carry a variety of risks - arguably more so in the case of commercial organisations. In the context of BCM (business continuity management), the first step is to identify the risks of business interruption, which the BCM policy defines. Essentially, one or more individuals have got to consider the organisation against individual assets, and consider all things that could go wrong, that fall within the scope of BCM and would lead to an interruption of the organisatio

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Today, most organisations recognise the critical role that information technology plays in supporting their business objectives and with the advent of the Internet and the prospect of performing business online, IT security has come to the forefront. ISO/IEC 27005:2011 is relevant to managers and staff concerned with information security risk management within an organisation and, where appropriate, external parties supporting such activities.

We all know that Business Continuity is something that should be put in place. Everyone knows that there ought to be contingency plans in the event of a disaster overtaking our business. Anyone knows that, whilst unlikely, a disaster could happen at any moment. No one is better placed to understand this than the board, chief executive and senior management. Someone ought to have these contingency plans ready just in case.

In the 1920’s a new theory was developed heavily influenced by the work of Niels Bohr and his colleagues at the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen Denmark. This was the theory of Quantum Mechanics which is still very much with us today and provides the foundations of much of modern technological innovations including micro-chips and lasers. As physicists looked closer at the sub-atomic world of the electron they found that matter behaved chaotically. The well ordered worldview that g

Risk assessment is the first process in the risk management methodology. Organisations use risk assessment to determine the extent of the potential threat and the risk associated with an Information system. The output of this process helps to identify appropriate controls for reducing or eliminating risk during the risk mitigation process. Risk assessment is the critical step in the ISO 27001 implementation. Risk assessment process helps to identify the organisation risks including physical se

It hasn’t been long since a new ISO/IEC 27005:2011 standard was published when it’s already been praised by industry experts. ISO/IEC 27005:2011 provides guidelines for information security risk management and supports the general concepts sp...