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Should Cybersecurity Risk Assessments Consider Likelihood?

Recording Date: July 2021

As the number of major cybersecurity incidents in 2021 continue to rise many organizations are looking at assessing their cybersecurity risks with an increased focus. There are several methodologies outlined for conducting cybersecurity risk assessments including the IEC 62443-3-2 standard (for more information on the IEC 62443-3-2 methodology for risk assessment see: https://gca.isa.org/blog/cybersecurity-risk-assessment-according-to-isa-iec-62443-3-2) and Consequence-driven Cyber-informed Engineering (CCE) outlined by the Idaho National Laboratory (https://inl.gov/cce/ ). While the IEC 62443-3-2 provides options for considering or not considering likelihood, CCE is a fully consequence driven approach. This raises the question of whether or not cybersecurity risk assessments should consider likelihood? In this webinar we will compare the two different approaches to cybersecurity risk assessment looking at the advantages and disadvantages of each approach to provide practical guidance on cyber risk assessment best practices.

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About the Presenter:

Patrick O'Brien

Patrick O’Brien Patrick O’Brien is a Safety and Cybersecurity Engineer at exida LLC, where he performs numerous end user focused training, consulting, and support services for industrial facilities in functional safety and cybersecurity. In addition to his consulting work, he has assisted with product development through testing, application specification, and the creation of user tutorials for the exSILentia® software platform, including significant work with the exida CyberPHAx™ and CyberSL tools. He has assisted with the development of exida training material and other knowledge-based content. He also helped develop cybersecurity projects through technical support and the translation of cybersecurity documents between English and German. Mr. O’Brien recently graduated from the Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in German Language and Culture.