IT Risk

Definitions

1. The possibility that failures, misuse, vulnerabilities, or poor technology decisions could harm business operations, compliance, finances, or reputation. IT risk includes security issues but also extends to outages, unsupported systems, poor architecture, and control gaps.

   In plain English: The chance that technology problems or weaknesses could harm the organization.

   Example: "The board cared less about the CVE count than about the broader IT risk of running a payment platform on unsupported servers."

Related Terms

• Cyber Incident
• First Responder
• Incident Coordination
• Incident Tracking
• Infrastructure Monitoring
• IT Asset Management
• ITSM
• Legacy System Security
• MSP
• Operational Risk
• Risk Analysis
• Risk Factor
• Risk Impact
• Risk Profile
• Risk Response
• Risk Transfer
• Risk Treatment