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Risk Management Process – Part 3c: Risk Control

Zerto

The third crucial step in risk assessment is risk control, which involves crafting effective strategies to mitigate the identified risks. There are four fundamental types of risk control: risk acceptance, risk mitigation, risk avoidance, and risk transfer.

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Business Continuity and Risk Management

BCP Builder

A modern 24/7 business cannot tolerate interruption and therefore looks for its resilience teams to prepare for the high risk scenarios which could occur. This allows them to proactively develop pragmatic strategies to mitigate the risk. If flooding is a real risk in your area, then make plans to mitigate against it.

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5 Steps towards an Actionable Risk Appetite

LogisManager

Risk appetites and tolerances are the perfect way to make data-driven, performance-enhancing decisions while developing a system to understand when and where your business is taking on too much risk, or not taking on enough. Risk Appetite. Risk Tolerance. Risk Appetite.

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How to Offload Your Risk to a Third Party

MHA Consulting

. · Risk avoidance: Altering organizational behavior to eliminate a given risk. Risk limitation: Taking measures to reduce risk, short of completely eliminating it. Incorporates a combination of the strategies of risk avoidance and risk acceptance. 2) Is the vendor resilient?

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The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk  

MHA Consulting

Residual Risk There are two main kinds of risk when it comes to organizational activities and business continuity: inherent risk and residual risk. Inherent risk is the danger intrinsic to any business activity or operation. A related but higher level concept is that of risk mitigation strategies.

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Who’s the Boss? Successful Risk Mitigation Requires Centralized Leadership

MHA Consulting

Try a Dose of Risk Management As a business continuity professional, I tip my hat to any organization that makes a serious effort to reduce its risks. Unfortunately, many companies do not get their money’s worth when it comes to implementing risk mitigation controls.

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Important KPIs for Successful Vendor Management

Reciprocity

Before outsourcing your business processes or striking some other deal with vendors, you do need to assess the risks they pose. The six risks listed below are a good place to start. Begin by determining your organization’s tolerance for cybersecurity risk. Cybersecurity. Business Continuity. Cybersecurity incidents.