Homework Responses Wk 2

Good afternoon class,

Everyone looks and assess the risk and vulnerability of their assets; this could include anything small like the things within a home to big things like an entire company or our government looking at their people as assets. The importance of these assets to those who are looking into the risk and vulnerability, dictates how hard they work to find ways to protect these assets based on the results they find when it comes to the risk and vulnerability. Assets that are more important to a person is the real motivation for risk and vulnerability assessments. Therefore, the purpose of these assessments is to make sure there is no gap in the protection of someone's assests in order to protect them and keep it safe. Things like companies, businesses, banks, and as the reading talked about the Pentagon requires a lot more in depth risk and vulnerability assessments due to needing to have a larger amount of protection for them.

Knowing and understanding the different risks that could happen is a good first step to take for security managers. As our security has changed so much since the events of 9/11 we are able to use those security measures to be proactive in any other coming risks or attacks on our assets. With as much as we have adapted security managers are trained in many areas to be able to know any future risks and then put their training into action and use known counter measures to prevent and try to avoid said future risk. 

Risk management is a way to dive deep into trying to understand and know what kind of risks are threatening any assets. When using risk management the security manager will look into all aspects big or small to make sure they are prepared for any risks that could come up. Knowing the possible risks and their vulnerabilities business are able to make a business continuity plan; this plan is created in order to try and still have a plan to continue having their business still be able to be up and running  in cause of a risk or disaster actually happens.