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Q2 Quantitative Risk Assessment (CISSP guide to security essentials Casse Project 1-2)

As a consultant with the Risk Analysis Consulting Co., you have completed a qualitative risk assessment regarding the risks associated with using non companyowned computers to conduct company business. Your customer, TRC Chemical, is pleased with the results of the qualitative risk assessment and wants to see hard numbers to see whether it can justify the capital and expense burden of equipping the sales force with company-owned computers, based upon risk mitigation alone. In your risk assessment, make best-estimates on the value of information and costs associated with purchasing and supporting company-owned computers.

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Using a non company owned computers for the business activity is a risk.
Computers are maintained by somebody else.The computer may crash, it
may have low performance, the data may get lost or data theft can happen.
The rental cost of the computers will definatly be less than buying new
computers by the company. The quantitative analysis has to be done.The
frequecy of issues with non company owned computers has to be estimated.
The cost of resolving such issues has to be calculated.After this analysis
cost of new computers along with their maintainance cost has to be
caluculated. Also gains in the ease of bussiness activity should also be
considered.After all this quantitative anaylysis if the cost of new strategy
is beneficial in financial terms , then only it should be considered.

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