Introduction

Risk Assessment is a process that helps you identify and manage potential threats that could harm, damage and disrupt your digital assets.
The purpose of this module is to encourage training participants to think critically about digital security risks, and furthermore support the development of personalized, context-specific strategies to mitigate such risks.
Human Rights Defenders handle sensitive information and the devices that contain them on a daily basis. Few have considered the risks to these assets and the potential consequences of losing control of them during a theft, confiscation or natural disaster.
This module will include some tools for assessing digital and physical threats and will encourage participants to consider:
•The value of their work and the information they depend on for their work (e.g., contacts).
•Personal habits that may put their work at risk.
•A practical level of safety and privacy in an office.