Critical Infrastructure / Key Resources
Risk Assessment and Analysis
Strategic, operational and tactical security decisions should be supported by an understanding of the risk they are intended to address. Too often, however, risk-based analysis is not actionable, does not reach decision makers in a timely fashion or is drowned out by externalities (e.g., media or political pressure).
SRA offers a broad range of products and services to support client risk assessment and analysis initiatives, and tailors its approach to client needs and available resources. Products, services and capabilities include:
- Creating processes for setting strategic risk goals and defining expected outcomes.
- Providing strategic and tactical all-hazards risk assessments, based on existing methodologies.
- Developing, piloting and implementing new and adaptive methodologies and tools tailored to the specific risk-based needs of our clients.
- Building risk mitigation programs to strengthen critical infrastructure protection and resilience.
- Creating flexible and robust risk communications and outreach strategies.
- Conducting training courses in security risk assessment, risk analysis, and risk management.
- Creating qualitative and quantitative metrics and performance measures to gauge progress toward risk objectives.
- Incorporating risk assessment and analysis into budgetary and programmatic planning.
SRA maintains a cadre of trained risk analysts whose work supports both strategic and tactical decision-making by senior leadership across the federal government and in the private sector.
SRA believes that the ultimate goal of risk analysis is to support effective and efficient decision making. With multi-disciplinary expertise across the critical infrastructure landscape, SRA prides itself on delivering robust risk methodologies, insightful analyses, and flexible and adaptive risk management approaches.
The best risk analysis techniques are the ones that provide the decision-maker with accurate, actionable and timely input into a decision. SRA provides a holistic management approach that allows decision makers to:
- Better understand the risks they face through the use of scalable tools, models, methodologies, and analytical processes.
- Comprehensively capture strategic and tactical risk, and plan for uncertainties.
- Methodically conduct robust and defensible cost-to-risk benefit analyses of proposed risk mitigation solutions.
- Accurately measure progress toward risk management goals.
- Greatly increase transparency and support effective risk communications strategies.