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Sample Risk Assessment Matrix

Rent-A-Car, Inc. Risk Assessment
Impact

Probability

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Medium

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Low

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Low

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Risk Description

Owner

Date

Mitigation

Some of the existing

applications were not
designed to operate within
a Hydra environment.
Limited experience with
Windows NT and/or NT
domains.
Unreliable connectivity
from overseas clients.

Testing

mm/dd

Testing will need to profile the various

applications to determine whether or
not they are Hydra compliant.

Program
Management

mm/dd

Ensure all team members receive

appropriate training on Windows NT.

Testing

mm/dd

There are a number of

Windows applications
Rent-A-Car would like to
distribute to the overseas
field force as soon as
possible.
Routers are configured to
filter port 3389.
Non-compliant or
unavailable terminal
emulation software
no TCP/IP infrastructure

Program
Management

mm/dd

Check with various

telecommunications providers to
ensure redundancy and reliability.
It is necessary to limit the scope of
how many applications will be made
available to the overseas sales to
make sure testing can complete their
tasks.

Program
Management
Testing

mm/dd

Program
Management
Program
Management
Team

mm/dd

Program
Management

mm/dd

Ensure all Windows-based terminals

purchased allow flashable memory
over the network.

Logistics
Management

mm/dd

Logistics
Management

mm/dd

It is necessary to review the language

requirements and determine the
server configuration to deal with the
various language and keyboard
settings.
In order to determine the appropriate
server sizing it is important to create a
usage profile and user simulation.

Some of the older desktop

systems are still running
Windows 3.1 with Novells
monolithic drivers
The Windows-based
terminal vendor selected
does not offer flashable
PROM.
The overseas field force is
not fluent in English.

There are no
measurements for how the
LOB application will affect
server performance.

mm/dd

mm/dd

Configure routers to allow

connections through port 3389.
Identify Hydra-compliant terminal
emulator vendor
WBTs will have to be manually
configured.
Determine the number of existing
Windows 3.1 computers and create a
replacement strategy for them.