Talking Risk

6?? But the highest rating is a 5.

Exactly! You ain’t hear it might be a day when HR doing salaries?

But don’t we have surge protectors for things like that?

Surge protectors ain’t no match for SKELEC!

OK, so we agree that it’s a 5. What about the likelihood of that happening?

Well with SKELEC, the likelihood of a major power failure is also a 6. They does have me lights blinking on and off like is Christmas.

Let’s say it’s highly likely.

So do we have a contingency plan that would allow us to fail over to a back-up system?

You couldn’t just ask if there’s a Plan B? Trying to sound all ‘techy’, yet you didn’t know that all systems are connected.

There are some redundancies in place but until they are all fully implemented, I would say the likelihood is a 4.

Interesting you should say that. Do you know that you may be involved in the cyber- attacks you spoke about earlier?

Wow, that’s a risk score of 20 ! I’m glad is them have to deal with that and not me.

Me?? I don’t work in MISD.

Nobody is accusing you. ‘You’ is just an indication that staff members can contribute to the success of cyber-attacks.

And I’m sure they didn’t call my name! So I don’t see how you all want to come accuse me.

It’s true. I was reading an article that said a lot of the cyber-attacks are carried out by targeting staff members.

The impact would be the same as the power outage as key services may be unavailable.

But MIS sending out all kinds of emails about being careful when you get emails and not to click on links we not sure about.

Don’t forget them paragraph they want as passwords.