The Disaster Recovery Threat Vulnerability Assessment Tool is a valuable
valuable addition to the items and documents needed to assist in ensuring
continuity in the face or disaster or serious incident.
The Threat Vulnerability Assessment Tool is one
component of a series of HandiGuide®
Tools that are used to assess threats and vulnerabilities associated with both
physical and electronic locations. This process is mandated by Sarbanes Oxley
and has been used by scores of our clients.
Sarbanes Oxley compliance requires enterprises to conduct a risk
vulnerability and threat vulnerability assessment. The process concludes with a
security vulnerability assessment.
This form is 3 pages in length. It should be
completed for each physical location of the enterprise and for each business
application and the location that the application/process is used. Sections of
the Tool include the following:
Demographics of
each physical location,
Access to each
facility at each physical location,
Environmental
factors associated with each physical location,
IT and business
process at each facility,
A risk ranking
matrix with a scoring mechanism that looks at:
Vulnerability
as measured by probability of the threat occurring versus,
The impact of
the loss
Rules for
scoring the risk.
The tool comes in PDF format
(ready to print and use), excel format that can be modified, or both.
