One of the challenges for IT risk management is to identify important and relevant risk, and one of the best ways to do that is through a well-developed risk scenario providing a realistic and practical view of risk that may prevent an enterprise from achieving its business objectives, historical events, and emerging threats. ISACA has developed a Risk Scenarios Starter Pack and concise online course that will help break down each aspect of a risk scenario.
The Risk Scenarios Starter Pack includes 10 sample risk scenarios that practitioners can use and tailor to their specific enterprises. Risk scenarios help improve communication about risk management by constructing a narrative that inspires individuals to act. Using risk scenarios helps the risk team to understand and explain risk to the business process owners and other stakeholders.
The 10 scenarios included in the Risk Scenarios Starter Pack are:
- IT services change management
- Inability to recruit or retain IT staff
- Inadequate patch/vulnerability management
- Security configuration intentionally modified
- Vendor support ends
- Phishing attack
- Third-party suppliers
- Failure to implement regulatory changes
- Failure to…
