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These 8 Risk Domains Are the Meat and Potatoes of Risk Management 

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(Sometimes the potential consequences of a given risk are too small to worry about.) Rather, we do it as a starting point for conducting a cost/benefit analysis of each risk and ultimately applying one of the four main risk mitigation strategies: risk acceptance, risk avoidance, risk limitation, or risk transfer.

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Managing Enterprise Risk: Understanding the 8 Risk Domains

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In essence, risk management is about being mature, practical, and proactive in actively managing down risk to make the organization more prepared to limit impacts and ensure operational resiliency. Following the risk assessment. Identified risks should not just be ignored with the hope the impact will not occur.

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Third-Party Due Diligence Best Practices

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As such, your audit reports can be outdated, with one previously unknown vulnerability being exploited by hackers, otherwise known as “zero-day vulnerabilities.” Nevertheless, if third-party vendor relationships are poorly managed, they can expose businesses to several hazards. Cybersecurity threats evolve constantly.