You are the Risk Analyst for Colvine Tech consulting. A new system user just asked you when risk assessments should be conducted in the system development life cycle. What will be the best answer?…

Conducting risk assessments only in the initiation phase would miss risks that emerge during development, implementation, or operation.

Conducting risk assessments only in the operations and maintenance phase would be too late to influence design decisions and could lead to costly remediation of fundamental flaws.

While implementation/assessment is a critical phase for risk assessment, limiting it to just this phase would overlook risks identified earlier or later in the SDLC.

Risk management is an ongoing process that should be integrated into every phase of the system development life cycle, from initiation and development to operations and disposal, to continuously identify, assess, and mitigate risks. This ensures that security is built-in and maintained, adapting to changes and new threats.