Risk management Risk management refers to a coordinated set of activities, methods, and techniques that organizations use to deal with the risk and uncertainty that influences how well they achieve their objectives. ISO Safety The condition of being protected from or unlikely to cause danger, risk, or injury OED Source Reference URL ISO ISO27000 Plain English Information Security Definitions of 2014 International Telecommunication Union definition of Cybersecurity Oxford English Dictionary http://www.praxiom.com/iso-27000definitions.htm#Business_continuity http://www.itu.int/en/ITUT/studygroups/com17/Pages/cybersecurity.aspx http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/ NISTIR7298 Revision 2 Glossary of Key Information Security Terms of May 2013 http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2013/NIST.IR.7298r2.pdf ITU OED NIST Page 17 of 33 www.cto.int