From the course: CRISC Cert Prep: 2 IT Risk Assessment

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Analyze organizational structure

Analyze organizational structure

- [Narrator] You'll want to analyze your risk scenarios from multiple viewpoints to ensure that the scenario is an accurate reflection of how that risk might manifest itself within your organization. One of the ways you can improve that accuracy is by considering your organizational structure when considering that risk. The purpose of all of your IT risk management activity is to help senior management make informed decisions about what to do about the risks you've identified. If you want to help the business understand IT risk, then you need to understand the business, and a great place to start is by reviewing your organizational structure. In the previous course, when we talked about identifying key stakeholders and establishing accountability, it all started with putting an org chart together. Now, it's time to dust off that org chart and look at it from a more holistic point of view. If you've mapped stakeholders to…

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