What are Information Assets?

Many methods for analysing Information Security Risks use the term assets, information assets or business assets interchangeably. This is a common foundation of Information Security risk analysis often providing a guide to the business impact of a risk being realised in particular systems that hold or access these assets. The…

What is Likelihood?

In my previous post, I investigated the various definitions of Information Security Risk. Here I look at the first consideration for an information security risk analyst, how likely is the risk event to occur? What is it’s likelihood? Likelihood is commonly used in English as a synonym for probability, and…