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What is the risk?
There are lots of data breaches and service outages that occur on all different sizes and verticals of business, for instance, cyber criminals are not biased and also in most cases don’t research targets to identify a certain size of the business, they identify week points everywhere they can touch.
What is the purpose of an IT risk assessment?
An IT Risk assessment is a major preventative task that makes you stop and think about all the areas within your IT that touch your business. The evaluation phase (completing this document) focuses on understanding where your data and services are supplied from and what risk is around them that you can possibly mitigate or surround with another piece of technology or process to reduce the risk.
Why is a risk register important?
A risk register, sometimes known as a risk log, is an important component of the overall risk management framework. A risk register is used to identify, assess, and manage risks down to acceptable levels through a review and updating process.
What is included in an IT Risk Register?
The sheer number of possible dangers means that companies are taking a huge risk by not taking control, and the best way of doing so is drawing up and updating an IT risk register, which identifies the dangers, mitigates them down where possible, ensures that everyone is aware of them, and monitors their activity accordingly.
How to set up a Risk Register?
Registers can be set up on spreadsheets or by using specialist software, and it should list all the places where data is stored and all the methods that are used to share it, whether it’s critical/sensitive documents on your local machine, email/data on Office 365 or business accounts on Sage.
There are never any guarantees in anything, but simply by spending time looking into the possible risks and making everyone aware, it’s possible for companies to take control of their data and ensure that they don’t become the next business to be added to the statistics.
