Scholarly Activity: Risk Management


You have been assigned as the project manager for a project involving the installation of a new Internet security suite for your company.

Complete the following tasks for your project:

  • Provide      a brief overview of your project.
  • Describe      positive and negative risks within your project.
  • Discuss      how each of the identified risks can affect the success or failure of the      project and rank each risk in terms of impact to the project.
  • Propose      risk mitigation and management approaches for each identified risk.
  • Describe      the role policy plays in the planning and performing of risk management      processes.

This assignment should contain a minimum of three pages. 

Please be sure that your written response utilizes proper APA formatting and that all sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

Textbook: Newsome, B. (2014). A practical introduction to security and risk management. Sage Publications.