Given your Week 5 readings associated with Cybersecurity in the Biological Sciences, as well as your knowledge gained to date, what mitigation strategies or techniques would you implement to safeguard your lab? Why? What would these strategies accomplish?

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Mitigation strategy means an action or program to reduce or eliminate the risk generated by a hazard.

Cybersecurity risk mitigation involves the use of security policies and processes to reduce the overall risk or impact of a cybersecurity threat. Regarding cybersecurity, risk mitigation can be separated into three elements: prevention, detection, and remediation.

In the same vein, conventional wisdom holds that there are four common risk mitigation strategies, typically avoidance, acceptance, transference and reduction or control.

           Mitigation is very important because its plans form the foundation for a community’s long-term strategy to reduce disaster losses and break the cycle of disaster damage, reconstruction, and repeated damage, Hazard mitigation planning reduces the risk to people and property and reduces the cost of recovering from a disaster.

The term mitigation in laboratory is the hierarchy of controls prioritizes hazard mitigation strategies on the premise that the best way to control a hazard is to systematically eliminate it from the workplace or substitute a less hazardous technique, process, or material.

          Some basic ways to prevent hazards in the laboratory are:

Know locations of laboratory safety showers, eyewash stations, and fire extinguishers, know emergency exit routes, avoid skin and eye contact with all chemicals, minimize all chemical exposures, no horseplay will be tolerated. Assume that all chemicals of unknown toxicity are highly toxic.

          These strategies can be accomplished by drawing a strategic plan which includes Establishing your Vision, Mission, and Overarching Goals, measure your progress, turn long-term strategies into short-term tactics, get everyone on board and put together a Simple Strategic Document to Serve as your Compass, and train your staff.