ASIS GENERAL SECURITY RISK ASSESSMENT
What are Assets? - Answers -Any real or personal property, tangible or intangible, that a
company or individual owns that can be given or assigned a monetary value.
What does Intangible property include? - Answers -things such as goodwill, proprietary
information, and related property. For purposes of this guideline, people are included as
assets.
For purposes of this guideline, what are people classified as? - Answers -assets.
Definition of Consequential? - Answers -A secondary result ensuing from an action or
decision.
Define Cost/Benefit Analysis? - Answers -A process in planning, related to the decision
to commit funds or assets. This is a systematic attempt to measure or analyze the value
of all the benefits that accrue from a particular expenditure.
Cost/Benefit Analysis process involves three steps, those are? - Answers -Identification
of all direct and indirect consequences of the expenditure.
Assignment of a monetary value to all costs and benefits resulting from the expenditure.
Discounting expected future costs and revenues accruing from the expenditure to
express those costs and revenues in current monetary values.
Natural Disaster - Answers -A naturally occurring calamitous event bringing great
damage, loss, or destruction such as tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, and related
occurrences.
Probability - Answers -The chance, or in some cases, the mathematical certainty that a
given event will occur; the ratio of the number of outcomes in an exhaustive set of
equally likely outcomes that produce a given event to the total number of possible
outcomes.
Qualitative - Answers -Relating to that which is characteristic of something and which
makes it what it is.
Risk - Answers -The possibility of loss resulting from a threat, security incident, or event.
Risk Analysis - Answers -A detailed examination including risk assessment, risk
evaluation, and risk management alternatives, performed to understand the nature of
unwanted, negative consequences to human life, health, property, or the environment;
an analytical process to provide information regarding undesirable events; the process
of quantification of the probabilities and expected consequences for identified risks.
, Risk Assessment - Answers -The process of assessing security-related risks from
internal and external threats to an entity, its assets, or personnel.
Security Incident - Answers -A security-related occurrence or action likely to lead to
death, injury, or monetary loss.
Security Vulnerability - Answers -An exploitable capability; an exploitable security
weakness or deficiency at a facility, entity, venue, or of a person.
Site - Answers -A spatial location that can be designated by longitude and latitude.
State-of-the-Art - Answers -The most advanced level of knowledge and technology
currently achieved in any field at any given time.
Statistics - Answers -A branch of mathematics dealing with the collection, analysis,
interpretation, and presentation of masses of numerical data.
Threat - Answers -An intent of damage or injury; an indication of something impending.
Practice advisories provide the security practitioner with? - Answers -guidance
regarding the application of specific security processes.
What is Criticality? - Answers -The impact of a loss event, typically calculated as the net
cost of that event.
When something is considered criticality and fatal, that means? - Answers -Resulting in
a total recapitalization
What is an Event? - Answers -Something that happens; a noteworthy happening. In the
security context, this usually represents an occurrence such as a security incident,
alarm, medical emergency, or related episode or experience.
What is Goodwill? - Answers -The value of a business that has been built up through
the reputation of the business concern and its owners.
What is a Loss Event? - Answers -An occurrence that actually produces a financial loss
or negative impact on assets. Examples include security incidents, crimes, war, natural
hazards, or disasters.
What are the recommended steps that need to be taken for conducting General
Security Risk Assessments? 7 Items - Answers -Understand the organization and
identify the people and assets at risk.
Specify loss risk events/vulnerabilities.
What are Assets? - Answers -Any real or personal property, tangible or intangible, that a
company or individual owns that can be given or assigned a monetary value.
What does Intangible property include? - Answers -things such as goodwill, proprietary
information, and related property. For purposes of this guideline, people are included as
assets.
For purposes of this guideline, what are people classified as? - Answers -assets.
Definition of Consequential? - Answers -A secondary result ensuing from an action or
decision.
Define Cost/Benefit Analysis? - Answers -A process in planning, related to the decision
to commit funds or assets. This is a systematic attempt to measure or analyze the value
of all the benefits that accrue from a particular expenditure.
Cost/Benefit Analysis process involves three steps, those are? - Answers -Identification
of all direct and indirect consequences of the expenditure.
Assignment of a monetary value to all costs and benefits resulting from the expenditure.
Discounting expected future costs and revenues accruing from the expenditure to
express those costs and revenues in current monetary values.
Natural Disaster - Answers -A naturally occurring calamitous event bringing great
damage, loss, or destruction such as tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, and related
occurrences.
Probability - Answers -The chance, or in some cases, the mathematical certainty that a
given event will occur; the ratio of the number of outcomes in an exhaustive set of
equally likely outcomes that produce a given event to the total number of possible
outcomes.
Qualitative - Answers -Relating to that which is characteristic of something and which
makes it what it is.
Risk - Answers -The possibility of loss resulting from a threat, security incident, or event.
Risk Analysis - Answers -A detailed examination including risk assessment, risk
evaluation, and risk management alternatives, performed to understand the nature of
unwanted, negative consequences to human life, health, property, or the environment;
an analytical process to provide information regarding undesirable events; the process
of quantification of the probabilities and expected consequences for identified risks.
, Risk Assessment - Answers -The process of assessing security-related risks from
internal and external threats to an entity, its assets, or personnel.
Security Incident - Answers -A security-related occurrence or action likely to lead to
death, injury, or monetary loss.
Security Vulnerability - Answers -An exploitable capability; an exploitable security
weakness or deficiency at a facility, entity, venue, or of a person.
Site - Answers -A spatial location that can be designated by longitude and latitude.
State-of-the-Art - Answers -The most advanced level of knowledge and technology
currently achieved in any field at any given time.
Statistics - Answers -A branch of mathematics dealing with the collection, analysis,
interpretation, and presentation of masses of numerical data.
Threat - Answers -An intent of damage or injury; an indication of something impending.
Practice advisories provide the security practitioner with? - Answers -guidance
regarding the application of specific security processes.
What is Criticality? - Answers -The impact of a loss event, typically calculated as the net
cost of that event.
When something is considered criticality and fatal, that means? - Answers -Resulting in
a total recapitalization
What is an Event? - Answers -Something that happens; a noteworthy happening. In the
security context, this usually represents an occurrence such as a security incident,
alarm, medical emergency, or related episode or experience.
What is Goodwill? - Answers -The value of a business that has been built up through
the reputation of the business concern and its owners.
What is a Loss Event? - Answers -An occurrence that actually produces a financial loss
or negative impact on assets. Examples include security incidents, crimes, war, natural
hazards, or disasters.
What are the recommended steps that need to be taken for conducting General
Security Risk Assessments? 7 Items - Answers -Understand the organization and
identify the people and assets at risk.
Specify loss risk events/vulnerabilities.
