Model-Based Mitigation of Availability Risks

Zambon, Emmanuele and Bolzoni, Damiano and Etalle, Sandro and Salvato, Marco (2007) Model-Based Mitigation of Availability Risks. In: Second IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Business-Driven IT Management, 21 May 2007, Munich, Germany.

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Abstract:	The assessment and mitigation of risks related to the availability of the IT infrastructure is becoming increasingly important in modern organizations. Unfortunately, present standards for Risk Assessment and Mitigation show limitations when evaluating and mitigating availability risks. This is due to the fact that they do not fully consider the dependencies between the constituents of an IT infrastructure that are paramount in large enterprises. These dependencies make the technical problem of assessing availability issues very challenging. In this paper we define a method and a tool for carrying out a Risk Mitigation activity which allows to assess the global impact of a set of risks and to choose the best set of countermeasures to cope with them. To this end, the presence of a tool is necessary due to the high complexity of the assessment problem. Our approach can be integrated in present Risk Management methodologies (e.g. COBIT) to provide a more precise Risk Mitigation activity. We substantiate the viability of this approach by showing that most of the input required by the tool is available as part of a standard business continuity plan, and/or by performing a common tool-assisted Risk Management.
Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Copyright:	© 2007 IEEE
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Distributed and Embedded Systems (DIES)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/67134
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/BDIM.2007.375014
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