Four choices for one risk
A leisure centre collects health notes from swimmers. The risk: the notes could leak. The manager has four choices. Live with it. Pay someone else to hold it. Stop collecting the notes. Or make a leak less likely.
Every risk has these four responses. A good analyst knows all of them.
Key words
| Word | What it means |
|---|---|
| Personal data | Information about a living person who can be identified. |
| Risk response | What you decide to do about a risk. |
| Accept | To decide the risk is small enough to live with. |
| Transfer | To move the risk to another party by a contract. |
| Avoid | To change the plan so the risk cannot happen. |
| Mitigate | To make the risk smaller, by lowering how likely it is or how bad it would be. |
| Encryption | Scrambling data so only people with the key can read it. |
| Scope | The size and limits of a piece of work. |
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By the end of this lesson
Note
I can name the four risk responses and choose one for a data risk.
Starter: last lesson
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Starter: last lesson
3 questionsYour answers are marked here and are not kept. A college account keeps every student’s marks.
The four responses
Accept: the impact is judged small enough. You note it and carry on. Transfer: you move the risk to another party by a contract, such as a cloud company that stores the data. Avoid: you change the scope so the risk cannot happen. Mitigate: you lower the probability or the impact.
Responses for one risk: health notes leaking
| Response | What the leisure centre does | What is left |
|---|---|---|
| Accept | Notes the risk is low and does nothing else | All of the risk |
| Transfer | Pays a cloud company by contract to store the notes safely | Some risk, and it still has legal duties |
| Avoid | Stops collecting health notes | No risk from that data |
| Mitigate | Encrypts the notes and limits who sees them | A smaller risk |
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Check: which response?
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Check: which response?
4 questionsYour answers are marked here and are not kept. A college account keeps every student’s marks.