Why Overthinking Risk Will Turn You into Stone

Risk is an enabler of Analysis Paralysis.

Organizations invest vast amounts of money, time, and human capital in identifying, analyzing, and reporting potential risks within their domain. While this exercise is often required for compliance and security mandates, this also leads to analysis and paralysis.

Risk exists no matter what an organization is involved in. From being in the cloud to moving to a third-world country to reduce, these decisions ultimately lead …