IT risk assessment methodology guide for disaster recovery planners
An IT risk assessment is a document that describes potential threats your organization faces, whether they are natural and/or man-made.
An IT risk assessment is an important part of disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) planning. Once you’ve compiled your business impact analysis, you next step is a risk assessment.
These threats are weighed by the likelihood of occurrence and then multiplied by their effect on the operation. The result is a value that you can use to determine your level of protection against a threat.
Your risk assessment should include potential damage the events could cause, the amount of time needed to recover/restore operations, and preventive measures or controls that can mitigate the likelihood of the event occurring. The risk assessment will also help you determine what steps, if properly implemented, could reduce the severity of the event.
See IT risk assessment methodology guide for disaster recovery planners, from SearchDisasterRecovery.com.
