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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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A brief guide to cyber security risk assessments

IT Governance BC

Cyber security risk assessments are essential for organisations to protect themselves from malicious attacks and data breaches. After all, it’s only once you’re aware of the ways you’re vulnerable that you can put appropriate defences in place. But what exactly does a risk assessment do?

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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. I wish it were true.

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

MHA Consulting

(Sometimes the potential consequences of a given risk are too small to worry about.) Rather, we do it as a starting point for conducting a cost/benefit analysis of each risk and ultimately applying one of the four main risk mitigation strategies: risk acceptance, risk avoidance, risk limitation, or risk transfer.

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The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk  

MHA Consulting

A related but higher level concept is that of risk mitigation strategies. There are four main risk mitigation strategies: Risk acceptance. A strategy involving a conscious decision to remain vulnerable to a potential harm, usually based on a cost-benefit analysis. Risk avoidance. Risk limitation.

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How to Offload Your Risk to a Third Party

MHA Consulting

There are four main strategies for mitigating risk : · Risk acceptance: Making a conscious decision to remain vulnerable to a potential harm, usually based on a cost-benefit analysis. Risk avoidance: Altering organizational behavior to eliminate a given risk.

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Global Turmoil Making You Ill? Try a Dose of Risk Management  

MHA Consulting

I included MHA’s definitions of the strategies last time in my post on enterprise risk management. In case you missed it, here they are again: Risk acceptance is a conscious decision to remain vulnerable to a potential harm, usually based on a cost-benefit analysis. It should become a part of the company culture.