How to find cyber-risk data sources for a FAIR analysis | TechTarget
Published: 03 Jun 2026
In today's enterprise, some degree of cyber-risk exposure is inevitable. CISOs must use limited resources to strategically address the most significant risks, in alignment with their organizations' cyber-risk appetites.
The easiest and fastest -- but also least reliably accurate -- way to assess relative cyber-risk is qualitatively. A qualitative analysis uses subjective data, such as a rating of excellent, good, fair or poor; a rating from 1 to 5, where 1 is excellent and 5 is poor; or a rating of blue, green, yellow, orange or red, where blue is excellent and red is poor.
Quantitative risk analysis is more challenging but also generally more substantive and useful than qualitative analysis. Cyber-risk quantification (CRQ)requires data that reflects reality as closely as possible and is objectively accurate, if not precise. For example, if the precise but unknown value is 63%,...
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