A school server room is flooding
A pipe leaks above the server room. Nobody saw it coming. The school loses its files for two days.
A risk is a bad thing that might happen. If someone had looked at the risk first, they could have moved the pipe, or moved the servers.
By the end of this lesson
Note
I can name the five steps of risk management and put them in order.
Key words
| Word | What it means | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Risk | a bad thing that might happen, and how bad it would be | A leak damages the servers. |
| Threat | something that could cause harm | A burst pipe |
| Vulnerability | a weak point that a threat can use | Servers on the floor |
| Probability | how likely it is to happen | High, medium or low |
| Impact | how much damage it would do | Two days with no files |
| Asset | something of value that we protect | A server or a customer list |
| Prioritise | put in order, the most serious first | |
| Mitigation | an action that makes the probability or the impact smaller | Move the servers upstairs |
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Five steps, always in the same order
Risk management is a process. It has five steps.
- Identification: find the risks, threats and weak points.
- Probability: say how likely each one is.
- Impact: say how much damage it would do.
- Prioritisation: put the risks in order and give each an owner.
- Mitigation: act to make the risk smaller.
Worked example: the leaking pipe
| Step | What we do | The server room example |
|---|---|---|
| Identification | Find the risk | A water pipe runs above the servers |
| Probability | How likely? | Medium: the pipe is old |
| Impact | How bad? | High: two days with no files |
| Prioritisation | Rank it, name an owner | Number 1 on the list. The site manager owns it. |
| Mitigation | Make it smaller | Move the pipe and fit a water alarm |
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