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Lloyd Hession: Look Risk in the Eye

Radianz CSO Lloyd Hession answers readers' questions about information technology risks.

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It is up to management to determine exactly how much risk the company can afford to accept. It may very well be the case that senior management is comfortable with a $100,000 exposure. The security expert provides value with his analysis because it reduces the problem to the type of business decision that management is used to making every day.

The job of the security team is to enable intelligent corporate decisions regarding security. Business is a series of trade-offs, and presenting risk in terms of those trade-offs demystifies security decisions and results in a cost-effective set of controls.

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