Chapter 13

1. This is an example of a matrix (the company is accepting a much higher overall risk level):
   

   1 is considered as irrelevant, 2-3 low, 4-5 medium, 6-7 high, and 8, 9, and 10 as critical.

2. This is an example of a matrix where we reflect the possibility of a more refined attacker by reducing the impact of complexity on the reduction of the final risk (that is, the attacker is more skilled and can pull off more complex attacks easily):
   

   This is to avoid the client artificially changing the scales in order to lower the scoring of vulnerabilities that they consider annoying to fix or remediate.

3. In order for you to have an internal party at the client that is acting as a neutral party (that is, compliance has no conflict of interest with the technical implementation team when it comes to do things properly) and usually have a much stricter approach to regulation compliance than the business.