The ASIS “General Security Risk Assessment Guideline” is a 2003 ASIS International publication and a key
resource for security operatives responsible of examining, evaluating, and managing risk to organizational assets
and planning security operations.
After thoroughly reading and studying the publication’s contents, particularly the seven (7) Recommended
Practice Advisories and the corresponding commentaries, explain why a corporate security officials must
understand the various risk management principles and be able to apply those principles when assessing the
vulnerability of an organization’s assets. Incorporate into your response the significance of determining not just
the various crime-related AND non-criminal threats to assets, but also the impact or “criticality” (losses, harm,
and costs) of those threat or “risk” events AND the probability or likelihood of those events occurring. Use
examples to demonstrate the points you make in your response.
Finally, identify the various information sources available to corporate security officials to determine the
probability of the various threats that may be directed at the organization. Again use examples of sources used
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