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Respond to the following: Answer each discussion with a minimum of 325 words each or more with at least 2 references each. Use critical thinking. Thank you.

Infrastructure Security and Policy

Challenges of Effectively Assessing Risk

Respond to the following: In this discussion, you address the many challenges associated with effectively assessing risk.

1. What do you think are some of the greatest challenges to effectively assessing risk? Include both quantitative and qualitative challenges. Support your answer with examples and citations.

Risk Assessments and SVAs

While risk assessments and security vulnerability assessments (SVAs) are similar, they have many differences. Where possible, a security vulnerability assessment would be helpful.

This is the case when a risk that is being assessed can be replicated and measured. Unfortunately, it is not always possible to replicate and measure certain risks. The events leading up to the collapse of the World Trade Center's Towers on September 11, 2001, is a risk that could not have been subject to a reliable security vulnerability assessment.

Respond to the following:

2. (a) Under what circumstances, and in what enterprises, would a risk assessment be more useful than a security vulnerability assessment?

(b)Under what circumstances, and in what enterprises, would a security vulnerability assessment be more useful than a risk assessment?