Acceptable Risk Level
What is Acceptable Risk Level?
The amount of risk that an organization is prepared to accept, tolerate, or be exposed to at any point in time.
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What the standards actually require on acceptable risk level
Requirements naming acceptable risk level across 5 standards, quoted from the control text.
The CISO should work alongside business teams to facilitate the analysis and management of security risk, including setting acceptable levels of risk in a consistent way across the agency.
new-zealand-information-security-manual-nzism::3.2.12.C.03 · 3.2.12.C.03 Consistent risk analysis and acceptable risk levels →Mining and coal organisations report, by river basin, how many tailings dams they control, active and inactive; state whether they evaluate and classify dams by the consequences of failure to human health and ecosystems and the guidelines used;
cdp-formerly-carbon-disclosure-project::2.6 · Questions 2.6 to 2.6.3: Tailings dam management →Every identified risk to project processes and to the product should be analysed and evaluated, taking experience and historical data into account, with the assessment criteria and techniques evaluated, a qualitative analysis made and a quantitative one follow...
iso-10006-2003::7.7.3 · Risk assessment →Require the developer of the system, system component, or system service to perform threat modeling and vulnerability analyses during development and the subsequent testing and evaluation of the system, component, or service that: (a) Uses the following contex...
NIST800-SA-11(2) · SA-11(2) Developer Testing and Evaluation | Threat Modeling and Vulnerability Analyses →Risks across all security areas are identified and assessed at least once a year under the method and plan, and an acceptable risk level is set and managed.
south-korea-cloud-security-assurance-program-csap::3.3.3 · Risk analysis and assessment →Questions people ask about acceptable risk level
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