Threats and risk analysis

Threats are potential dangers to the assets of your organization. According to the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) Threat Landscape Report, 2017, modern organizations face millions of cyber threats, including: malware, web-based attacks, phishing, ransomware, botnets, and so on. For security professionals, and especially for risk managers, threats play a huge role in analyzing risks. Risks are a combination of threats and vulnerabilities, and they can be mathematically represented as Risk = Threats x Vulnerability.