ISC2 Governance, Risk and Compliance (CGRC) Practice Question
After completing control assessments, your team documents eleven residual risks. Budget allows addressing only three in the next quarter. Which approach best aligns with established risk management practice for deciding which risks should receive mitigation resources first?
Prioritize the risks that auditors highlighted in last year's report, regardless of their current business impact.
Choose the risks that can be remediated in the shortest time to demonstrate rapid progress to executives.
Select the risks tied to systems that are already scheduled for maintenance to minimize additional downtime.
Combine the estimated likelihood and potential impact of each risk to assign a severity score, then address the highest scores first.
Accepted risk management guidance (e.g., NIST SP 800-30 and SP 800-39) states that risks should be prioritized by evaluating the likelihood that a threat event will occur together with the magnitude of its impact. Calculating a composite severity score from these two variables produces a risk level that can be compared across findings; the highest-level risks are addressed first. Selecting issues because they coincide with scheduled maintenance, are quick wins, or were noted in past audits may have operational advantages, but those criteria do not ensure that the organization is focusing resources on the greatest current threats to mission and assets.
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