Security Risk Assessments: Modeling and Risk Level Propagation

Vulnerability identification errors in security risk assessments

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MetaStar Security Risk Assessments: HIPAA and Meaningful Use.

• Vulnerability identification—Identify system’s weaknesses. • Control analysis—Analyze controls in place to prevent vulnerabilities from being exploited. • Likelihood determination—Determine probability of a vulnerability being exploited. • Impact analysis—Analyze impact on organization should a vulnerability be exploited. • Risk determination—Develop prioritized listing of risks (ie, gaps in ...

Safety, Security and Quality: Lessons from GMO Risk Assessments

Strategic security management: risk assessments in the environment of care.

Securing the environment of care is a challenging and continuous effort for most healthcare security managers, who face unique challenges in balancing the open campus environment with the protection needs of the hospital's patients, employees, and other assets. By conducting a comprehensive risk assessment, hospital security managers can prioritize identified risks, develop an effective hospita...

Systems Risk Analysis UsingHierarchical Modeling

A fresh look at the system analysis helped us in finding a new way of calculating the risks associated with the system. The author found that, due to the shortcomings of RPN, more researches needed to be done in this area to use RPNs as a new source of information for system risk analysis. It is the purpose of this article to investigate the fundamental concepts of failure modes and effects ana...