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 you ll explore risk assessment and management. You ll 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 you ll 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. You ll 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 you ll explore ongoing risk management including what causes risk responses and acceptance to change and the importance of patch management.