Explore KSACs by Pathway
Explore Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Credentials (KSACs) by IT Pathway.
7. Risk Management
Label | KSAC Description | Bloom's Taxonomy Level | Cross-Cutting | |
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a | Describe the concepts of Risk Management (e.g., Business continuity concepts, Business impact analysis, Identification of critical systems and components, Removing single points of failure). | knowledge | 2 | |
b | Describe the concepts of Risk assessment (e.g., Disaster recovery plan, IT contingency planning - Succession planning, Redundancy). | knowledge | 2 | |
c | Describe and plan Fault tolerance (e.g., Hardware, RAID, Clustering, Load balancing, Disaster recovery concepts, Backup plans/policies, Backup execution/frequency). | skill | 3 | |
d | Enforce concepts related to threat vectors and probability/threat likelihood. | ability | 2 | |
e | Identify concepts of risk calculation (Likelihood, ALE, Impact, SLE, ARO, MTTR, MTTF, MTBF). | knowledge | 2 | |
f | Understand Governance, risk management and Compliance Management processes (risk mitigation, govern compliance). | knowledge | 2 | |
g | Apply certification and accreditation. | knowledge | 4 | |
h | Apply audit and compliance. | knowledge | 5 |
Credentials
Entry
- Security+
- Network+
- Cloud+
- CEH
- GSEC
- CAP
Mid-level
- CCNA
- CYSA+
Advanced
- CASP
- CISSP
- CISA
- CISM
- CRISC
- CCSP