Business Impact template

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Every Business Impact should follow this template.

Description
A business impact is the damage that results from a successful security breach. This should be the highest level impact to the business, not a glorified technical impact.
 * 1) Start with a one-sentence description of the business impact
 * 2) Describe the damage done to the business - money, loss of life, reputation, loss of customers, compliance, legal exposure
 * 3) Is the damage immediate or spread over a time period?

Risk Factors

 * Talk about the factors that govern this business impact
 * Try to be clear about the factors that make this impact serious

Short example name

 * A short example description, small picture, or sample code with links

Short example name

 * A short example description, small picture, or sample code with links

Related Technical Impacts

 * Technical Impact 1
 * Technical Impact 2