Survey of Information Security Risk Assessment Methods

Information Security Risk Assessment is crucial for the establishment process of information security system, and whether as an evaluation method or as a decision-making mechanism, is also an important part of information security research. This paper first describes the development of risk evaluation for information security both at home and abroad. Then it provides classification and summary of risk evaluation methods for information security. It also describes the in-depth analysis on the superior and inferior in the process of assessment and integrated application of various methods. Finally, in considering the development of information security in China, some urgent problems in information security evaluation work are given.