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Security risk management

Security risk management

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Security risk management

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- I have a confession to make folks. I, Joe Ramm, am a reactionary person, and what I mean by that is that at my core, I started off as a level one PC tech. So I'd wait for the phone to ring. A user would say, "I can't get on the internet. My screensaver crashed. My computer crashed. This broke down, and what do I do?" I can't wait to get in there and respond, but I never really thought about how to prevent those things from happening, but when you move up to the world of networking, it's very, very important to understand that, and that's all about understanding risk. How can you possibly plan for every single thing? So as network techs, we have to always think about mitigating as best as we can. So in this episode, we're going to talk about assessing your network for threats and vulnerabilities. Now, in essence, a security assessment is really an audit. Basically, its purpose is to find vulnerabilities within your…

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