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  1. Overall Bow-Tie Diagram

    Overview The Bowtie method is a risk evaluation method that can be used to analyze and demonstrate causal relationships in risk scenarios. The method takes its name from the shape of the diagram that you create, which looks like a men’s bowtie. ...
  2. Participant Roles

  3. What is Risk?

    What is the meaning when someone says there is a risk of loss? It means that something might happen that can result in a loss . The words "something", "might", and "loss" have special meanings. The something is what we will call an 'Event', or...
  4. Overall Efficient Frontier

    The Efficient Frontier results make it easy to compare several scenarios and see the effects of lower or higher budgets.  Click  to display results: Overall Efficient Frontier The Efficient Frontier page displays a curve(s) at the left an...
  5. Controls for Threats

    Controls for Threats/Sources can be viewed, added, and assigned to this page.  The Controls for Threats/Sources are listed as rows under the "Control Name" column, and the succeeding columns headings to the right are the threats/sources.  You ca...
  6. Overall Less Exceedance Curve (LEC) with Controls

    Overview The LEC represents the annual frequency whereupon a determining economic loss will be exceeded. It is the most important and strongest measurement of risk since it provides basic information for the planning and appropriation of the re...
  7. Overall Risks

    Overview This page displays the Overall Likelihoods, Impacts, and Risks of each Event . Overall Likelihoods, Impacts, and Risks of Events The results for the "All  Participants" group are displayed by default as indicated in the c...
  8. Measurement Methods

  9. Frequently Asked Questions

  10. Overall Risk Map with Controls

    Overview This page displays the same diagram as with the Overall Risk Map (without controls) --  with additional options to show the Risk Map when controls are in effect. Overall Risk Map Without Control and With Control The X-axis ...