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The Essentials of a Physical Security Systems Risk Assessment

This brief guide includes identifying goals, assessing the needs of the business, and combining the fundamental elements of security into a coherent assessment of risk.
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Six Steps of Risk Assessment

A risk assessment is among the first steps in all risk frameworks, standards and guidelines. In this video we'll discuss how to conduct a comprehensive risk assessment according to one of those standards - ISO 31000 - and how SEC Collective Knowledge can help along the way.
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Top Security Risk Trends

A look at the top risk trends from the practitioner's perspective.
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Top Security Risk to Organizations Today - 2021

See the latest results of this practitioner poll and compare to previous editions in our archive going back almost ten years.
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Reimagine Risk and Security: Evolving Beyond COVID

If we want to adapt to an uncertain future, we first must look at what we’re doing now, why and how we’re doing it, and then examine whether that model matches the reality we are facing.
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Security Risk Assessment Success Factors

Taking these ten factors into account can make the difference between doing an assessment and doing an assessment that truly enhances your organization.
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Security Risk Assessment: What Not to Do

It is best to avoid these errors when planning your next risk assessment.
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Security Barometer Results: Risk Assessments

This Security Barometer explores whether risk assessments are being done for proactive or reactionary reasons.
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Site Risk Assessment Scoring Template

After conducting risk assessments at each of your sites you should think about how to analyze and communicate the results.
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Transitioning from Risk Assessment to Plan

Conducting a security risk assessment is an essential first step in developing successful security programs. But what should the security practitioner do with the results?
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Six Questions to Ask Yourself About Security Risk Assessments

Insight to help security practitioners evaluate their current risk assessment program and suggestions on ways to improve it.
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Threat Assessment: Measuring Likelihood

When you think about security threats to your business, which do you think are likely to manifest? What are the probabilities of a specific type of event occurring at a particular location? How do you convey your concerns to management without sounding like Chicken Little yelling that the sky is falling?
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The Risk-Aware Organization

Security practitioners often equate security awareness programs with posters in break rooms, intranet alerts and informative brochures on the risk of the month. While these media serve a useful purpose, Security’s risk awareness strategy must be significantly more disciplined and structured than a periodic communication exercise.
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Site Risk/Threat Assessment Ranking Template

This template was designed to assist security leaders in ranking risk and mitigation priorities, which is one fundamental part of a comprehensive risk management strategy.
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A Risk Quantification Process

Having a list of security-related business risks and their associated countermeasures is an essential part of the risk management process.
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Security Barometer: How is Your Organization Approaching Assessing Risks?

This 2017 Security Barometer poll shows steps security practitioners use to assess risk and how well they feel their organization is tackling significant security risks overall.
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Threat/Risk Management Process Chart

This chart provides an easy to understand diagram of a process with which to make security risk management decisions.
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