Nt2580: Unit 6 Quantitative and Qualitative Risk Assessment Analysis
NT2580: Unit 6 Quantitative and Qualitative Risk Assessment Analysis
Qualitative Risk Assessment Single loss expectancy (SLE) : Total loss expected from a single incident Annual rate of occurrence (ARO): Number of times an incident is expected to occur in a year Annual loss expectancy (ALE): Expected loss for a year
ALE = SLE X ARO
Safeguard value: Cost of a safeguard or control
Scenario: Richman Investments provides high-end smartphones to several employees. The value of each smartphone is $500, and approximately 1,000 employees have these company-owned devices. In the past year, employees have lost or damaged 75 smartphones .
With this…show more content… Management has
determined that the three primary risks the company faces in protecting the data are as follows:
• • •
Unauthorized access by an external party Sabotage by an internal employee Hardware failures
Richman has created scales for the probability and impact of risks as follows:
Probability: Low
= 10% , Medium = 50%, and High = 100% Impact: Low = 10, Medium = 50, and High = 100
After surveying key individuals
