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“Managing risk is one of the most, if not the most important, functions in an organization,” says Tony Martin-Vegue, enterprise security management strategist for LendingClub, a peer-to-peer lending company based in San Francisco. “It’s really important to have a structured, formalized process for measuring risk, managing risk, and the entire remediation process.”
If a formal process is the best way to assess and manage risk, then what sort of process should an organization use? “The most commonly used risk model is the mental model of the person waving their wet finger in the air,” says Jack Jones, executive vice president of research and development at RiskLens and chairman of the FAIR Institute. “And mental models are notoriously flawed,” he says. The reliance on flawed mental models is one of the many reasons Jones says that the IT industry is horrible at properly assessing risk.
How does an organization go about finding a better model and using it to figure out what their risk is? There are a number…
