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Risk Management as a Career: A Guide for BCM Professionals

MHA Consulting

It’s not about eliminating risk completely but managing it in a rational, informed way. Because the organization and environment inevitably change over time, managing risk is a task that’s never done. It’s a permanent ongoing activity. The operational areas that risk management is concerned are broad and varied.

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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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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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These 8 Risk Domains Are the Meat and Potatoes of Risk Management 

MHA Consulting

As a practical activity, enterprise risk management (ERM) centers on eight distinct risk domains, some strategic and some operational. With respect to this process, the total landscape of risk that is assessed and mitigated can be divided into eight risk domains. For more on those strategies, click here and here.)

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

MHA Consulting

This is so whether the company is applying some combination of the four main risk mitigation strategies (risk acceptance, risk avoidance, risk reduction, and risk transfer) or implementing such specific measures as installing a backup power generator or requiring the use of secure VPNs.

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Business Continuity and Risk Management

BCP Builder

Business Continuity Management risk is a sub domain of Enterprise Risk Management, like Information Security Risk Management or Health and Safety Risk Management. The Business Impact Analysis pulls from the Enterprise Risk Management process, the Business Continuity Plan is a series of contingency actions.

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SOC 2 vs ISO 27001: Key Differences Between the Standards

Reciprocity

SOC 2 and ISO 27001 complement each other by giving you a strategy for securing your information landscape and for demonstrating the security of your environment. Designed by the International Standards Organization (ISO), ISO 27001 spells out industry standards for an information security management system (ISMS).

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