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Industrial Cybersecurity
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The business dictionary defines risk assessment as follows:
"The identification, evaluation, and estimation of the levels of risks involved in a situation, their comparison against benchmarks or standards, and determination of an acceptable level of risk."
In other words, risk assessments are about discovering the potential things that could go wrong with a situation such as the setup of a system or environment. By discovering the flaws or vulnerabilities of that system, the potential of something going wrong and the impact of the occurrence can be determined.
The following principal steps are typically taken in an ICS risk assessment:
The intensity and scope of each step will vary depending on the maturity of the security program that the system under consideration ...