From the course: CRISC Cert Prep: 2 IT Risk Assessment

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Analyze technology

Analyze technology

- [Presenter] Policy standards and procedures are essential resources in planning how you'll securely deploy in managed technology. But planning and doing, those are two different things. At some point, you'll want to roll up your sleeves and analyze the technology that's currently deployed throughout your organization. In my opinion, a great first step is to identify all outdated and unsupported information technology that your business critical processes depend on. When budgets are tight, business may make the difficult decision to postpone an upgrade or to cancel an IT modernization project. As those upgrades become increasingly expensive and complex, your organization is going to find themselves deeper and deeper in technical debt. This notion of technical debt has financial and security implications. Outdated and unsupported systems are prone to stability issues and unpatched security flows. And the online payment…

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