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Risk Management as a Career: A Guide for BCM Professionals

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A risk manager should possess deep industry knowledge and a solid understanding of what is critical and what’s not. Good, foundational knowledge of technology. The person doesn’t have to be a tech guru, but they do need an understanding of the core components of technology and how they work. Knowledge of how to mitigate risks.

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Who’s the Boss? Successful Risk Mitigation Requires Centralized Leadership

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Try a Dose of Risk Management As a business continuity professional, I tip my hat to any organization that makes a serious effort to reduce its risks. Unfortunately, many companies do not get their money’s worth when it comes to implementing risk mitigation controls.

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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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At Risk of Distraction: The Seductive Appeal of RMIS Software

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RMIS supports the development and implementation of risk mitigation strategies to reduce the likelihood or impact of identified risks. This may involve implementing controls, transferring risks through insurance, or accepting risks within predefined tolerances. Incident Management.

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How to Offload Your Risk to a Third Party

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. · Risk avoidance: Altering organizational behavior to eliminate a given risk. Risk limitation: Taking measures to reduce risk, short of completely eliminating it. Incorporates a combination of the strategies of risk avoidance and risk acceptance.

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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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The Difference Between Strategic and Operational Risk

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New technologies, increasing digitization, and evolving customer demands create risks that can disrupt operations, weaken cybersecurity, and harm the organization’s reputation or financial position – and above all, leave the organization unable to achieve its business objectives. Operational Risk Management (ORM).