You are the chief information security officer $($CISO$),$ and due to a government shutdown and other factors, your desktop team is unable to migrate to the latest version of Windows as you initially planned. You know that your current version of Windows support will expire in just two weeks, and your agency will be vulnerable to all types of malware if you continue operating on it after the end of support deadline.

$***$ Using the information from the NIST framework readings $($NIST $800-30),$ answer the following questions. How would you handle this risk? Would you accept, reject, transfer, or mitigate it$?$ How did you come to that decision?