This generic catalogue is a brainstorming tool to help identify information risks an important prelude to their analysis and treatment in the business context. Please don’t be overwhelmed by its length! The list of over 200 information risks is deliberately wide-ranging to prompt creative thinking, and yet it is not totally comprehensive. For one thing, multiple risks can coincide. Simply imagining the permutations and combinations is mind-blowing! While some may seem far- fetched, risks just like these have caused real-world incidents within living memory. By all means focus on the risks most relevant to your specific context, and get to work on evaluating and addressing the most significant ones as soon as possible but don’t completely discount or ignore the remainder. Remember that ‘improbable’ is not ‘impossible’, just as ‘probable’ is not ‘certain’. Risk management is risky!
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