How do you get your head around ‘risk’?

Businesses have started to realize understanding risk isn’t just about working out what security vulnerabilities or weaknesses need to be shored up, but about finding a point of balance where performance is not compromised by too little or too heavy-handed a consideration of liabilities. Whether or not staff are using IM, or breaching email usage policies or bringing their iPod to work or leaking vital intellectual property – these are all issues that should have been addressed ahead of time by IT as well as HR, legal and line managers.

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