Risk Assessment and Management

Risk assessment allows you to identify and prioritize risk while risk management allows you to analyze mitigate or accept risk. In this course youll explore risk assessment and management. Youll begin by examining the role Business Impact Analysis plays in risk management and what it accomplishes before moving on to learn about various risk assessment and analysis approaches. Next youll explore the importance of risk mitigation and having a strategy for it as well as how risk mitigation strategies fit into the risk management effort. Youll learn about the NIST SP 800-37 risk management framework and the steps involved as well as the Risk Maturity Model and the associated five levels of risk management competency. Finally youll explore ongoing risk management including what causes risk responses and acceptance to change and the importance of patch management.