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Comprehensive, systematic, and unbiased risk assessment is essential to the long-term security and reliability of Scholars Portal. Risk assessment helps the repository identify and evaluate threats that could disrupt normal operations or impair its ability to meet its contracted obligations and mandatory responsibilities to its Designated Community and its contracted obligations. Scholars Portal began formally documenting and analyzing risks in the fall 2011. The participants included key personnel from Scholars Portal, University of Toronto Libraries, and the Library's Information Technology Services. In many cases, the risk analysis merely documented threats that librarians, architects, and programmers had addressed tacitly in the design and implementation of the repository.
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