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Risk assessment

Identifying risks, rating how likely and harmful they are, and deciding what controls are needed.

Good work shows: Lists risks clearly and specifically; rates likelihood and impact consistently; proposes controls that match the size of risk.

Risk assessment is one of the security and risk skills on FinderK.

The job simulations and Skill Paths below include work that is checked for this skill. You do the work in an original fictional company and get feedback on it.

Job simulations

The analytics vendor risk exception

Security risk and compliance manager at Brackenfield Retail Group

About 80 minutes. Included in Plus.

Marketing wants a fast growing analytics vendor live before Black Friday, and it wants 1.2 million customers' names, emails and card digits. Assess the vendor's evidence, score the risk, design the controls that would make an exception acceptable, and keep the gate shut when the vendor reveals an old incident.

Skills: Assess vendor controls on evidence, not answers; Score third-party risk by a defined method; Design compensating controls that change the risk; Route a risk decision to the right approver; Hold a security gate under commercial pressure

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