From the course: Measuring and Managing Top Cyber Risks

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Data-driven cyber risk management

Data-driven cyber risk management

From the course: Measuring and Managing Top Cyber Risks

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Data-driven cyber risk management

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- [Instructor] An essential function of an information security program is the management of cyber risk. You'll manage it on a daily basis as part of the operational and project functions your team performs, but you only have a limited number of resources to manage an endless number of risks. How will you know which risks are worth the effort to manage? It's not enough to have a bunch of high, medium, and low risks. As a manager, you need to know how to prioritize your top risks so you can smartly allocate your resources to get the biggest benefit. Now, to manage something well, you need to be able to measure it. That means you need data. Just like a road trip, you know where you started from but you also need to know where you're going to, and you need a way to measure your progress, and you need to know when you arrive so you can stop working so hard. Your cyber risk management options follow along two…

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