Risk ratings for your organization

Respond to the above questions.

Faced with the need to deliver risk ratings for your organization, you will have to substitute the

organization’s risk preferences for your own. For, indeed, it is the organization’s risk tolerance

that the assessment is trying to achieve, not each assessor’s personal risk preferences.

1. What is the risk posture for each particular system as it contributes to the overall risk

posture of the organization?

1. How does each attack surface – its protections if any, in the presence (or absence) of

active threat agents and their capabilities, methods, and goals through each situation—

add up to a system’s particular risk posture?