From the course: CompTIA CySA+ (CS0-002) Cert Prep: 7 Compliance and Assessment
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Risk treatment options
From the course: CompTIA CySA+ (CS0-002) Cert Prep: 7 Compliance and Assessment
Risk treatment options
- [Instructor] Once you complete a risk assessment for your organization, you're left with a prioritized list of risks that require your attention. Risk management, or risk treatment is the process of systematically analyzing potential responses to each risk, and implementing strategies to control those risks appropriately. No matter what risk you're managing, you have four basic options for addressing the situation. You can perform risk avoidance, risk transference, risk mitigation, and risk acceptance. When you avoid a risk, you change your organization's business practices so that you are no longer in a position where that risk can affect your business. For example, if you're performing a risk assessment of the risk that flooding poses to your data center, you might choose to pursue a risk avoidance strategy for that risk. In that strategy, we might relocate our data center to a facility where there's no risk of flood…
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