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Information Security Risk Assessment Checklist

by David Muzamani Chauke, from the Community

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This Information Security Risk Assessment checklist helps organizations evaluate the maturity of their security program and identify gaps. It covers governance, confidentiality, risk assessment cadence, system security and certification, change control, and vulnerability scanning. Personnel and HR controls, physical and environmental security, disaster recovery, backups, logging, data classification, and access controls are included. It also addresses integrity, patching, intrusion detection, secure configuration, software acquisition and usage, device hardening, network protection, and incident response. Rate items High, Medium, Low, or No Risk and assign corrective actions.

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