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Risk Impact Lite Calculator BETA 1.3

This is a lightweight Risk Impact Calculator tool that starts with a total picture of revenue or organizational budget or portfolio, and delves into up to ten separate risks. The scoring methodology is calculated based on what are hopefully common sense questions, and then matrixed against the total organizational figures to maintain consistency of scoring despite organization size. This tool is a work in progress and feedback is always welcome via the Contacts page on this site. NOTE: Risk Likelihood does not yet exist in this calculator and is under development. (Coming soon!)

This work is free to use for any purpose and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Current version is BETA v1.3

Risk Impact Calculator Lite BETA v1.3 (xlsx)

Business Impact Analysis Lite Calculator

This is a lightweight Business Impact Analysis tool that starts with a business process or asset, and then focuses on the information technology that supports that process or asset. The outage of the business process or loss of asset is what is being assessed, and such factors as brand damage are taken into account. The idea is to weigh each process or asset using this calculator and to tally scores. NOTE: the math behind the points systems WILL need to be tweaked depending upon the size and type of your business. Brand damage may be more significant to your organization than the weighted points I allocate by default. Additionally, revenue-related numbers might need to be adjusted. Once tweaking is complete, using this calculator consistently will generate consistent scores. Those scores can be used to determine your highest priority business processes for Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Risk Management, etc.

This work is free to use for any purpose and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Current version is v1.4

BIA Lite Calculator v1.4 (xlsx)

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