4-1 Practice Activity Risk and Planning for Crisis

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4-1 Practice Activity: Risk and Planning for Crisis Security Management CJ 405 Robin Trottier Southern New Hampshire University July 23, 2023
Identify at least three critical assets hospitals are concerned about protecting. Three critical assets that a hospital would be concerned about protecting would be the pharmaceutical items, patient records, and critical hospital equipment. Describe what security issues hospitals are most concerned about and why. Security issues that hospitals would be the most concerned about would be issues like breaches of patient or hospital data, active attacker/shooter situations as hospitals are soft targets with high population and lower means of protection, and infant abductions. Describe potential threats and liabilities hospitals face both internally and externally. Internal threats and liabilities : Some internal threats that hospitals face internally are, for example, employee misconduct, breaches of sensitive data, and inadequate staff numbers. Employee misconduct is a threat because there are policies and procedures that if not followed could lead to legal issues for the hospital. If patient data is breached this could leave the hospital in legal trouble as well. Inadequate staffing levels would be more of a liability because if there are not enough staff on duty at a hospital then there could be significant errors that take place. External threats and liabilities : Some external threats that hospitals face are, for example, natural disasters, the supply chain of healthcare supplies or medicine being interrupted, and attackers/assailants targeting hospitals. Natural disasters can cause massive damage to communities and then hospitals will be overrun by people that need care, when this happens
certain security measures could be overlooked causing liabilities to form. When the healthcare supply chain is stressed or interrupted this can cause threats to individuals that need specific medication or supplies to not be able to have the items that they need to survive. Active shooters/attackers are an unpredictable variable that can happen anywhere. Hospitals, however, are a prime target for these individuals as hospitals are full of people that are unable to protect themselves, making a hospital a very soft target to be attacked. Describe a fundamental approach to completing a risk assessment for any organization. A fundamental approach to completing a risk assessment that would work for any organization would be to first identify the risks , then you would analyze the risks , after that you would evaluate the risks , then you would implement controls , and finally you would monitor and review the process . These steps will work to create a risk assessment for whatever organization that you need to provide an assessment of. Describe how you would keep your risk assessment  current and relevant . To keep your risk assessment current and relevant you need to continuously monitor it which means you need to review how it is doing and update the process as needed. Depending on what kind of organization it is that you are running you could do these reviews annually or if you have an organization that has higher risks you could do it bi-annually. The item that would most likely be changed would be the employee training/education as you need to keep your employees up to date with any changed that are made to policies and procedures to to changes in the risk assessment.
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