As the Chief of Security both risk assessment and analysis will play a vital role in properly conducting my duties and ensuring the protection of applicable company tools and resources, both terms fall into the over-arching aspect of risk management. A thorough risk assessment is a process in which individual risk or threats are broken down and categorized based upon a structure that depicts the associated effects when the said risk or threat is exploited" (Dunkelberger, 2019). Risk assessment is a meso-level process within risk management. It aims to breaks down threats into identifiable categories and define all the potential impact of each risk" (. Risk analysis is a more specific look into each individual risk or threat, highlighting and measuring the criticality of the exploitation. Each process falls within risk management as the overall process and look at similar aspects of the associated risk; risk analysis being the process that is more in depth. references