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36 Types of Technology Risk
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Information technology risk is the potential for
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Process Risk the potential for project failures, operational problems
Procurement and information security incidents. The following are
Program Risk
common types of IT risk.
Project Risk
Quality Risk
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IT structures that fail to support operations or projects.
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Failure to control IT assets such as loss of mobile
Creativity
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Decision Audit Risk
Making
The chance that an IT audit will miss things such as
Design
security vulnerabilities or legacy risks.
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Information
Information Investments in IT that fail to achieve projected return
Technology
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considered a positive risk.
Motivation
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al Culture
Problem
Capacity management failures such as an overloaded
Solving network connection that causes inefficiencies such as
Quality process failures.
Risk
Small
Business Change Control
Society A failure to control change to complex systems
Strategy
including practices such as change management and
Sustainability
configuration management.
Talent
Compliance Violations
Technology
The potential that you will violate laws or regulations.

Contract Risk

A counterparty that fails to meet its contractual

obligations to you such as violations of a service level
agreement.
Data Loss

Loss of data that can not be restored.

Data Quality

Poor quality data that causes losses due to factors such

as process failures, compliance issues or declining
customer satisfaction.

Decision Quality

Sub-optimal decision automation or inaccurate decision

support information such as analytics.

Design Debt

A low quality design that results in future costs.

Facility Risk

Risks related to facilities such as data centers.

Infrastructure Risk
Failures of basic services such as networks, power and
computing resources.

Innovation Risk

A special category of risk associated with

experimentation and aggressive rates of change.
Typically requires novel approaches to risk
management such as designing activities to fail well.

Integration Risk

The potential for integration of organizations,

departments, processes, technology or data to fail.

Legacy Technology

Technology that is out of the date to the extent that it is

difficult to maintain and at risk of failures.

Operational Risk

The potential for technology failures to disrupt core

business processes.
Partner Risk

Risks associated with technology partners such as

service providers.
Physical Security

Physical security related to IT such as security at data

centers.

Process Risk

The potential for processes to be disrupted by IT

failures.

Procurement Risk

Procurement is the purchasing of services, products and

resources. It is prone to a number of risks including the
chance of fraud, cost and quality issues.

Project Risk

In many cases, IT projects have a high rate of failure

due to a number of risk factors such as scope creep,
estimation errors and resistance to change.
Quality Risk

Failures of quality assurance and other quality related

practices such as service management.

Regulatory Risk

The potential for new information technology related

regulations.

Resource Risk

An inability to secure resources such as skilled

employees.
Security Threats

Security threats such as malware and hackers.

Security Vulnerabilities

Security vulnerabilities such as weak passwords and

poorly designed software.

Single Point Of Failure

A small component of a large system that brings the

entire system down when it fails.
Strategy Risk

The risks associated with a particular IT strategy.

Technical Debt

Weak technology implementations that are likely to

result in future costs such as a big ball of mud.
Transaction Processing Risk

Failures of transaction processing such as ecommerce

purchases.
Vendor Risk

The potential for an IT vendor to fail to meet their

obligations to you.
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