Understanding Risk Management in IT Infrastructure
Risk and Its Impact on Business
Understanding Risk
Risk is the likelihood of a loss occurring when a threat exposes a vulnerability. Losses can range from small to severe, potentially causing significant damage to a business.
- Threat: Any activity posing a possible danger.
- Vulnerability: A weakness that can be exploited.
- Loss: A compromise of business functions or assets, resulting in tangible (cost) or intangible (goodwill) damages.
Compromise of Business Assets
- Assets are anything with measurable value
Strategic Planning and Resource Allocation in Business
1. The Strategic Planning Process
Strategy involves implementation and execution. Planning involves analyzing relevant information from the past and present, along with estimating future developments. This analysis leads to a plan that guides the company towards achieving its objectives.
Planning in the Company
This is a formalized decision-making process that produces a representation (plan) of the desired future state of the company and outlines the practical steps for implementation.
Strategic Planning
This
Read MoreSoftware Testing: Techniques and Strategies
Software Testing Goals
The software testing process has two primary goals:
- Validation: Demonstrate to developers and customers that the software fulfills the specified requirements.
- Defect Detection: Uncover faults or defects within the software that lead to incorrect, undesirable, or specification-violating behavior.
The first goal drives validation testing, where the system’s correctness is evaluated against a set of test cases reflecting expected usage patterns. The second goal leads to defect testing,
Read MoreInspection and Safety: A Comprehensive Guide
Inspection and Safety
Basic Objectives of the Inspection
- Maintain a safe working environment and control acts endangering safety.
- Maintain the profitability of operations.
- Maintain security fencing to prevent accidents through the inspection process.
Auditor
Identifies weaknesses in the company.
Responsibility
Maintaining responsibility for operations rests squarely in the direction of the company, and the authority to carry it out is everyone’s responsibility.
Inspection Technique
- The safety inspection is
Road & Highway Cross-Sections: Design and Components
Road and Highway Cross-Sections
Introduction
The cross-section of a road or path describes its geometric characteristics as a plane perpendicular to the vertical surface containing the road’s axis. This cross-section varies along the road due to the combination of different elements, whose sizes, shapes, and relationships depend on their functions, the nature of the track, and the surrounding terrain.
Platform
The platform is the visible surface of a pathway, including the driveway(s), berm(s), platform
Read MoreTechnical Reports and Project Management
THEME 1: “Technical Report”
What is a technical report?. Component parts
It is a study from the technical point of view of the work, installation or set-based products it unclear aspects: size, power, features or circumstances that help to classify those aspects that appear in the report.
The report consists of:
-Scope of the report: clarifies the purpose of the project, fulfilling the wishes of the designer.
-Data collection / measurements: biographical data relating to the report.
– Study of measurement
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