IT Security and Disaster Recovery Management

Every company or organization must be aware of all the risks that can occur. In order to do this, a risk assessment must be conducted. In the military, I must work to provide information to my leadership in order for them to assess a risk or threat from occurring. By understanding the risk assessment process it will provide a guideline on the thought process it will take in order to assess the risks within my organization. The risk assessment process provides an idealistic view of how senior leaders and executive will utilize information in determining their decisions on determining the appropriate course of action in response to a threat (NIST, 2011). The first component in a risk assessment process is to create a frame for a risk. This means that the senior leaders must come up with established guidelines as to how threats will be dealt with on every level within the organization. The second component is to assess the risk or threat. In order to do this, three sets of information must be gathered; what is the immediate threat, what the impact on the organization is, and what vulnerabilities will be affected by the threat. The third component is the process to respond to a risk. This is where senior leadership and the organization’s executives must determine the course of action in order to respond or counteract against a threat. The fourth component of the risk assessment process is to monitor the risk. This is the long term procedures that an organization must take in order to maintain the health and well being of the company’s network security (NIST, 2011). This is the four components to the risk assessment process. Within my line of work, I must be able to gather enough information to produce a network issue to my leadership. My job in the military is to monitor all the Department of Defense’s