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How to determine in-scope systems

How to determine in-scope systems

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How to determine in-scope systems

- [Tutor] The purpose of the risk management frameworks categorized step is to guide and inform subsequent risk management processes and tasks by determining the adverse impact to the organization with respect to the compromise or loss of organizational assets, including the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of organizational systems and information processed, stored, and transmitted by those systems. This step shows you how to classify the criticality of the information and system, according to potential worst case scenarios with an adverse impact to the organization. Once you've prepared your organization for using the NIST RMF, you can move to the categorize step. This is where you set the scope of your RMF activity, based on the assets importance to the organization. It's basically grouping the system, or systems, under review for this process. When categorizing your assets, not everything needs to be protected…

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