Assessing and Prioritizing Risks You have been hired as the security professional in your current work or school environment. Your
department has experienced a recent breach within its database architecture. Your manager feels it
is time to reassess the network as a first step in a phased approach to hardening the network
security. You have been delegated to lead this assessment. Research your organization or school to
determine its database architecture. Write a paper describing your assessment process. Include the
following information in your paper:
2. Define who would be included in the assessment of the database environment.
3. Identify the assets that you are protecting.
4. Define the threats you are protecting yourself against.
5. Using the following table, assign a risk value to each threat, based on its likelihood and cost
to the company.
6. Prioritize your threats based on their risk value (5 being the highest risk and 1 being the
lowest)