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Risk strategies

Risk strategies

- In this lesson, we're going to focus on risk management strategies, both in theory and in the application to our networks and cybersecurity within the real world. So, why should we care about risk management? Well, as a leader and a manager of IT networks, your job is essentially to manage risk for your enterprise. Every decision you make during the day is going to involve the acceptance, transference, mitigation, or avoidance of risk within your IT systems. So we need to cover all the facets of risk management, including risk assessments, risk measurement, risk handling, risk tracking, and the entire risk management lifecycle, as well as many other risk considerations. Now, I'm excited to share with you not only the theory and the textbook answers surrounding risk management, but also some real world experiences that will help you understand the importance of risk management in your IT systems. But before we dive deep into those concepts of risk management, we first have to start…

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