Risk Tolerance
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Definitions
European Definitions
Other International Definitions
ITU-T
Risk tolerance means the degree of exposure to security risk acceptable to policy makers/business owners. [1]
National Definitions
United States
NIST
The level of risk an entity is willing to assume in order to achieve a potential desired result. [2]
Standard Definition
See also
Notes
- ↑ ITU Study Group Q.22/1 Report on Best Practices for a National Approach to Cybersecurity: A Management Framework for Organizing National Cybersecurity Efforts, ITU-D Secretariat, Geneva (2008).
- ↑ NISTIR 7298 rev 2: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, May 2013