System administration Risk Management Risk Definition Risk Strategies Risk Assessments.

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System administration System administration Risk Management Risk Management Risk Definition Risk Strategies Risk Assessments

Transcript of System administration Risk Management Risk Definition Risk Strategies Risk Assessments.

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System administrationSystem administrationRisk ManagementRisk Management

Risk Definition

Risk Strategies

Risk Assessments

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Managing RisksManaging Risks

This activity is part of the TQM modelThe task is part of evaluating assets and the

related threats There are to types of risks:

– Internal risks– External risks

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Concepts Associated with Concepts Associated with Defining RisksDefining Risks

Risk– A threat to some object that has i value

External Risk– Comming from other system / external enviroment

Internal Risk– Project is missing importent ressources

Risk Attributes– Probability of occurrence

Risk magnitude indicator– High, Significant, Moderate, Minor, Low– Numbered 5 to 1

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Risk StrategiesRisk Strategies

Risk acceptance– Live with it

Risk Avoidance– Reorganize to eliminate the risk

Direct mitigation– Reduce the probability or impact

Risk contingency– Have a ’Plan B’

Risk transfer– Sub-contract the risk

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Risk planningRisk planningDescription of the risk

Costs/ impacts1(Low) – 5(High)

Pos-sibility1(Low) – 5(High)

Impacts Indica-tors

Mitigra-tion strategy

Contin-gencyplan

Minor natural disasters

5 1 Damage to HW and SW

RainStorm

Remote Backup

Re-installation plan

Virus and worms

4 3 System stop

Slow systems

MalfunctionsSystem log entriesSlow systems

Virus protec-tion program-mesFirewall

Safe backupRe-installation plan

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Risk StrategiesRisk Strategies

Total Risk = Priority

Total Risk (priority) = Costs/ impacts X Possibility

Deal with the high risk first (high priority)

Remember to plan with security risk management