Re: Security Grade

From: lauren.malhoit@tylertech.com
Date: Fri Dec 07 2007 - 08:03:03 EST

('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) I think it's all pretty relative. Microsoft recommends doing either a qualitative risk analysis or quantitative (or both). In one case you assign the odds of the risk of a specific attack a number (1-10) and assign the severity of the risk a number (ie will it cause business to shut down or something). Then you multiply those two numbers and it gives you a risk assessment. In the other case, you take the actual money (both directly and indirectly) that might be lost and multiply that times however many times that would probably happen in a year.

It's a little more scientific than that (although not much), but you get the gist.

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