Episode 38 — Treat Identified Risks and Track Remediation Through Closure
Risk treatment is the process of moving from awareness to action, and CSSLP exam scenarios frequently test whether you can manage that journey in a disciplined, traceable way. Attention is placed on triaging risks based on impact, likelihood, exposure time, and business criticality, rather than reacting to whichever issue is most visible or recent. You will hear how to choose between treatment options—avoiding a risky feature, reducing risk through controls, transferring it via contracts or insurance, or accepting it with documented rationale—and how each choice must be tied to clear ownership and timelines. The relationship between risk registers, remediation backlogs, and governance forums is described so you understand how decisions flow from analysis to funded work.
Following treatment efforts through to completion requires systematic tracking, validation, and communication. Examples demonstrate how to define remediation tasks with explicit acceptance criteria, such as specific control implementations, test results, or evidence artifacts that prove risk reduction. You will explore how change management, deployment plans, and rollback strategies intersect with remediation work, ensuring that fixes do not introduce new issues or remain only in pre-production environments. Scenarios highlight how to manage exceptions and compensating controls when remediation is delayed, how to update risk records with residual exposure, and how to report progress using trends and narratives that stakeholders can understand. Exam questions in this area often distinguish between superficial closure—marking issues as “done” without evidence—and genuine closure that is supported by retesting, updated documentation, and confirmation from accountable parties. Produced by BareMetalCyber.com, where you’ll find more cyber audio courses, books, and information to strengthen your educational path. Also, if you want to stay up to date with the latest news, visit DailyCyber.News for a newsletter you can use, and a daily podcast you can commute with.
