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You cannot remove risk:


* Risk cannot be completely eliminated.
* Risk cannot be completely eliminated.


* Providing additional layers of security (layers of cheese) reduces the likelihood of an attack.  
* Providing additional layers of security (layers of cheese) reduces the likelihood of an attack.  





Latest revision as of 23:55, 16 May 2025

Cybersecurity > Assessing Risk > The Goal of Risk Management


You cannot remove risk:

  • Risk cannot be completely eliminated.
  • Providing additional layers of security (layers of cheese) reduces the likelihood of an attack.


Additional layers however create additional problems:

  • More room for configuration errors (most outages result from human error)
  • More expertise and expense to manage the system
  • More latency or outages.