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Defensive Security (Blue Team) / Security foundations

Lesson 2 of 32

Risk

Risk is how likely something bad is multiplied by how much it would hurt. Security teams fix the biggest risks first, because there's never time to fix everything.

Key points

  • Risk = likelihood x impact
  • Prioritise the biggest risks
  • Accept, reduce, transfer or avoid
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How do you roughly measure risk?

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