Overview As a cybersecurity analyst, you will need the ability to recognize risks quickly; this is an important skill

Overview As a cybersecurity analyst, you will need the ability to recognize risks quickly; this is an important skill that you will refine throughout your career. Using your systems thinking mindset to consider your organization’s people, processes, and technology will help you be successful when it comes to identifying risks and understanding their probability and impact.  Refine your ability to assign probability and impact ratings, which you previously practiced when completing a risk register. What you will encounter below are real scenarios shared from professionals in the field. You will practice recognizing risks and your ability to make plans to minimize them. Sometimes you will minimize a singular risk in isolation, but more often you’ll need to balance multiple risks and decide what gets fixed immediately and what gets fixed three months from now. Scenario One: BYOD You work as an analyst for a fire station that has begun updating its bring your own device (BYOD) policy. Gaps have been identified in the current policy that would permit any employee to access the USB ports on their workstations. The firefighters want to use the USB ports to access movies and music during their free time. Scenario Two: Data Retention Your company does not currently have a data retention policy in place because of a limited IT budget that will not cover the costs of necessary hardware. There have been discussions about developing one, but the process has been shelved in favor of other projects. Despite this lack of policy for storing old data, for the next fiscal year no money has been budgeted to buy hardware that could store the additional data long term. Storage space has been running out, and soon data will need to be deleted to make space for new data. 1 Scenario Three: Physical Security Your company is repainting the walls in its server room, which means a small team of additional workers has been granted access to the space. Usually the door to enter the room is locked with a key card that prevents entry to anyone without preset permissions. Because the painters have been moving their own tools in and out, and because they want to keep the room ventilated, you notice one of them has decided to prop open the door. Prompt After reading through the three scenarios, you will address the critical elements in the Module Three Activity Worksheet, which is linked in the Activity assignment in Module Three of your course. You must address the critical elements listed below. I. Scenario One A. Identify the type of risk portrayed by the scenario. B. Explain how the identified risk impacts the organization. C. Justify how you would rate both the probability and the impact on a scale of low, medium, and high. D. Explain what you need to be successful in minimizing the risk. II. Scenario Two A. Identify the type of risk portrayed by the scenario. B. Explain how the identified risk impacts the organization. C. Justify how you would rate both the probability and the impact on a scale of low, medium, and high. D. Explain what you need to be successful in minimizing the risk. III. Scenario Three A. Identify the type of risk portrayed by the scenario. B. Explain how the identified risk impacts the organization. C. Justify how you would rate both the probability and the impact on a scale of low, medium, and high. D. Explain what you need to be successful in minimizing the risk. IV. Overall View (Scenarios One, Two, and Three) A. Discuss your implementation strategy on a 30/60/90-day time line.