Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning for IT Professionals, 2nd Edition

Chapter 4

Risk Assessment

Abstract

Creating a business continuity plan unique to your operation is critical for your success. Each organization will handle potential threats and associated risks differently. Each company will have to take into account location, industry, organizational culture, company structure, departments, work units, management approach, and strategic objectives. Each of these elements impacts how your organization responds to threats. For that reason, a very important step in this process is performing the risk assessment.

Keywords

IT risk management; IT risk assessment components; Threat assessment; Vulnerability assessment

In this chapter

• Risk management basics

• Risk assessment components

• Threat assessment methodology ...