RISK ASSESSMENT

Threat Assessments

A threat is anything that could cause a disaster for your business. Threats can be natural (such as storms), technical (such as computer viruses) or human (a disgruntled employee ). You generally can't control whether a threat will become a disaster for your business, and therefore you create a business continuity plan to minimize possible losses if a threat materializes.

Primary threat

A primary threat is any hazard which, should it give rise to an event, has the potential to interrupt business operations for an unacceptable length of time.

Secondary Threat

A secondary threat is a hazard which, should it give rise to an event, has the potential to cause considerable inconvenience, for any length of time, without causing serious interruption to business operations.

Identification of threats and risks

One way to record where basic risks or threats may arise is to first plot them on a framework ranging from People,  Organisational,  Technical  and Economic, against Internal or External.

Identifying and Mitigating Threats to Your Information Assets

Protecting information assets is one of the top concerns of businesses today. Hackers, saboteurs, and information thieves are compromising systems with alarming regularity and costing corporations millions of dollars in reformatting. Learn of current threats and vulnerabilities, countermeasures versus cost trade-offs, and important security steps you can implement today.

Risks Associated with International Business

In this age of global enterprise, more and more business is being handled overseas. If you or your staff travels internationally, this phase is imperative. The need and importance of maintaining a low profile (i.e. no corporate insignias), identifying safe-havens and trusted sources for taxis, hotels, and restaurants, communicating your itinerary and appointing a liaison, as well as the very real dangers of executive kidnapping and carjacking.

Threat Preparedness and Mitigation

This valuable assesment shows you what you can do to prevent incidents before they occur by looking at the history of incidents at your facility, as well as facilities like yours. Also discussed is the importance of maintaining relationships with emergency services, developing and implementing an organizational matrix, conducting a total corporate risk assessment, and how to deal with the press when accidents do occur.

Lessons Learned: Common Security Vulnerabilities

Most corporations have at least one thing in common: where they are most vulnerable to deliberate harm. We'll discuss cases of corporate espionage, as well as the impact of ineffective surveillance equipment, poor training of staff and security, inadequate manpower, and untested security plans. 

Legal / Liability Issues

Is your facility a lawsuit waiting to happen? What are the components of a potential lawsuit? Re-evaluate what you're doing to protect your people, what plans you have in place and whether or not they're being adhered to.

Business Continuity International offers a variety of risk assessment and analysis to assist in determining your organization's vulnerability to various risks.

Full Risk Assessments covering:

Machines-controls / Access rights / network Topology / accountability / Governance etc

Data Centres-Access Control / CCTV / Cooling / Staging Areas / Accountability etc

Buildings- Redundancy/ Neighbours / Power / Preventative Maintenance etc

Environmental-Fire / Flood etc

Country-Stability / Terrorism / Earth Quake etc

Is your Disaster Recovery Centre on the same Tectonic plate as your primary site? This should be part of your Risk Assessment; loose one site to an earth quake you loose them both!!

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