Risk management in information technology

Date: Jun 30, 2010

Mitigating risk in information security can be a difficult task, but there are effective strategies you can put in place to identify, communicate and reduce risk.

In this video, get an over view of enterprise risk management in information technology from Nick Frost of the Information Security Forum.

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