Your company is covered under a liability insurance policy, which provides various liability coverage
for information security risks, including any physical damage of assets, hacking attacks, etc. Which of
the following risk management techniques is your company using?
A.
Risk mitigation
B.
Risk transfer
C.
Risk acceptance
D.
Risk avoidance
Explanation:
Risk transfer is the practice of passing risk from one entity to another entity. In other words, if a
company is covered under a liability insurance policy providing various liability coverage for
information security risks, including any physical damage of assets, hacking attacks, etc., it means it
has transferred its security risks to the insurance company.
Answer option D is incorrect. Risk avoidance is the practice of not performing an activity that could
carry risk. Avoidance may seem the answer
to all risks, but avoiding risks also means losing out on the potential gain that accepting (retaining)
the risk may have allowed.
Answer option A is incorrect. Risk mitigation is the practice of reducing the severity of the loss or the
likelihood of the loss from occurring.
Answer option C is incorrect. Risk acceptance is the practice of accepting certain risk(s), typically
based on a business decision that may also weigh the cost versus the benefit of dealing with the risk
in another way.