WHAT IS FAIR?

From a Compliance-based to a Risk-based Approach to Cyber Risk Quantification
and Operational Risk

 

Organizations are increasingly transitioning to risk-based approaches to information security and wall-stree-journal-top-cio-priorities.pngoperational risk, as compliance to regulations alone provide only a minimum layer of security and fail to adequately protect them.

  • Information risk has become a business issue, not just a technology issue, as most business processes have digitalized.
  • Boards of directors and business executives want to understand an organization's loss exposure in financial terms to enable effective decision-making.
  • Risk and security professionals must become facilitators of the balance between protecting the organization and running the business. 

 

FAIR: A Methodology for Quantifying and Managing Risk in Any Organization

 

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  • FAIR provides a model for understanding, analyzing and quantifying cyber risk and operational risk in financial terms.
  • It is unlike risk assessment frameworks that focus their output on qualitative color charts or numerical weighted scales.
  • It builds a foundation for developing a robust approach to information risk management.

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A Common Language That All Can Understand

 

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With FAIRTM, you can:

  • Speak in one language concerning your risk;
  • Take a portfolio view to organizational risk;
  • Challenge and defend risk decisions using an advanced risk model; and
  • Understand how time and money will impact your security profile.

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An Enterprise Scalable Risk Model

 

 

FAIR's risk model components are specifically designed to support risk quantification:

  • A standard taxonomy and ontology for information and operational risk.
  • A framework for establishing data collection criteria.
  • Measurement scales for risk factors.
  • A modeling construct for analyzing complex risk scenarios.
  • Integration into computational engines such as RiskLens for calculating risk.

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The FAIR methodology was conceived as a way to provide meaningful measurements so that it could satisfy management's desire to make effective comparisons and well-informed decisions. FAIR has become the only international standard Value at Risk (VaR) model for cybersecurity and operational risk.

 

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An International Standard by The Open Group

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The Open Group has chosen FAIR as the international standard information risk management model. The Open Group has published two standards, O-RT, Risk Taxonomy Standard, and O-RA, Risk Analysis Standard, comprising Open FAIR.

  • The Open Group is a global consortium that enables the achievement of business objectives through IT standards.
  • It has more than 500 member organizations including companies such as HP, IBM, Oracle, Accenture, Cap Gemini and MITRE.
  • Standardization of Open FAIR was achieved following a most rigorous review and comparison with other risk methodologies, and development using an open, consensus standards process.
  • The Open Group has numerous publications available on Open FAIR, which are available here.
  • The Open Group accredits Open FAIR training courses and certifies individuals. Details regarding Open FAIR accreditation and certification are available here.

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Complementary to Existing Risk Frameworks

FAIR'sTM risk analysis capabilities complement the existing risk management frameworks.

 

  • Risk frameworks from organizations such as NIST, ISO, OCTAVE, ISACA, etc. are useful for fi2defining and assessing risk management programs.
  • They all prescribe the need to quantify risk, but for the most part, they leave it up to the practitioners to figure it out.
  • Some are silent on the subject of how to compute risk, while others are open in the allowance of 3rd party methods.
  • Frameworks such as NIST 800-30 attempt to measure risk, but fall short as they rely on qualitative   scales and flawed definitions.
  • FAIRTM helps fill that gap by providing a proven and standard risk quantification methodology that can      be leveraged on top of those frameworks.

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