Risk Analysis Basics and the Department of Homeland Security–Approved Risk Analysis Methods

At the end of this chapter, you will understand the approaches that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has embraced over time to study risk, the elements of risk analysis, typical interested stakeholders and agendas for a risk analysis study, commercially available risk analysis software tools, risk analysis basics, risk assessment steps, some information on how to select the right methodology for a particular kind of project, and why DHS is unconcerned for most facilities about the specic risk assessment methodology used to study risk.