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Introduction

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Model-Driven Risk Analysis

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In this chapter, we explain the importance of risk analysis in general. The asset-driven and model-based approach of CORAS is explained and motivated, and the overall aims of the book are given. The chapter furthermore gives a structural overview of the book, including its decomposition into parts and chapters and how these are related.

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    CORAS is the name of our approach, and is written in capital letters; it is not, and has never been, an acronym.

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  1. SINTEF ICT, P.O. box 124 Blindern, 0314, Oslo, Norway

    Mass Soldal Lund, Bjørnar Solhaug & Ketil Stølen

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Lund, M.S., Solhaug, B., Stølen, K. (2011). Introduction. In: Model-Driven Risk Analysis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12323-8_1

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12323-8_1

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

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