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Common Cause Failures impact Risks

Today, we look at what happens when Common Cause Failures impact Risks. Common Cause Failures impact Risks defined Common cause failures (CCFs) are almost “simultaneous” failures of specific system’s elements resulting from single shared causes or coupling factor (or mechanisms). By applying the definition above we can immediately see there are two families of CCF: The coupled CCF, i.e. interdependent failures where one element failure drives the failure of another element and The uncoupled CCF where Physical or environment stresses…

Results of our Poll on Cyber Warfare and Risk Based Decision Making Procedures.

We promised to publish the results of our Poll on Cyber Warfare and Risk Based Decision Making Procedures. So here they are, for your information. Results of our Poll on Cyber Warfare and Risk Based Decision Making Procedures. Please note, all percentages are approximate, rounded up to the nearest 5%. 60% of the respondents use a well defined risk glossary. However, only 25% use well-defined risk assessment procedures and 40% expresses probabilities in non numeric ways (qualitative, indexes etc.). Almost…