5. Integrating the threat as a system variable
5.1 Prevention for protection
Risk is characterized by its potentiality (or probability) and its impact; by prevention we limit its probability, and by protection we limit its impact. If risk analysis reveals probable feared impacts, then a preventive and palliative policy needs to be put in place.
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To establish the information chain to measure the role of security, we need to establish by domain and by feared impact (figure
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