Risk Management Framework

Introduction

Part II of this book delves deeper into the RMF itself, with a chapter devoted to each of the phases of the RMF. It concludes with a summary of the way ahead for the RMF, including proposed changes that will expand the use of the RMF throughout the Department of Defense (DoD) and the intelligence community (IC).

Those of us in security are very much like heart doctors—cardiologists. Our patients know that lack of exercise, too much dietary fat, and smoking are all bad for them. But they will continue to smoke, and eat fried foods, and practice being couch potatoes until they have their infarction. Then they want a magic pill to make them better all at once, without the effort. And by the way, they claim loudly that their condition ...