Class: ISOL536-Security Architecture and Design
Assignment: Week 2 Individual Assignment 2
Length: Minimum of 600 words; MS Word
Total points: 100 points
Briefly respond to all the following questions. Make sure to explain and backup your responses with facts and examples. This
assignment should be in APA format and have to include at least two references or more.
Faced with the need to deliver risk ratings for your organization, you will have to substitute the organization’s risk
preferences for your own. For, indeed, it is the organization’s risk tolerance that the assessment is trying to achieve, not each
assessor’s personal risk preferences.
1. What is the risk posture for each particular system as it contributes to the overall risk posture of the organization?
2. Explain two of the attacks – its protections if any, in the presence (or absence) of active threat agents and their
capabilities, methods, and goals through each situation—add up to a system’s particular risk posture?