CompTIA Security+ Certification SY0-601: The Total Course - Qualitative Risk Assessments

The video tutorial explains qualitative risk assessment, emphasizing its subjective nature compared to quantitative assessments. It introduces risk registers as tools for managing risks, detailing their components like severity ratings and mitigation strategies. The tutorial also covers visual tools like risk heat maps and matrices, which help in representing risk levels and impacts. The differences between qualitative and quantitative assessments are highlighted, focusing on subjective severity levels and their implications.

What factors should be considered when determining the impact level of a risk?

Explain how a heat map can be used to visualize risk levels.