Risk Treatment
Risk Assessment is a systematic process for identifying, analyzing, and evaluating risks to determine the appropriate risk treatment strategies
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Strategic Risk Mitigation Approaches
Implementing deliberate actions to lessen the probability or severity of identified threats.
- This strategy involves completely eliminating the activity or condition that gives rise to a particular risk, such as opting not to launch a product with known critical vulnerabilities.
- Implementing controls and safeguards to decrease either the likelihood of a risk event occurring or significantly lessening its potential impact if it does materialize.
- Shifting the financial or operational burden of a specific risk to a third party, often achieved through purchasing insurance policies or establishing contractual agreements.
- Consciously deciding to bear the potential consequences of a risk, typically for low-impact or low-likelihood events where the cost of mitigation outweighs the potential harm.
Addressing Risks Through Controls
Identified risks are systematically tackled by deploying specific, layered controls designed to prevent, detect, or respond to adverse events, thereby reducing residual exposure.
- Preventive Controls
- Detective Controls
- Corrective Controls
Residual Risk: The Unavoidable Remnant
This refers to the inherent level of risk that remains within an organization even after all appropriate security controls, countermeasures, and mitigation strategies have been diligently implemented and are functioning as intended.
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