What is an acceptable level of risk in cyberspace?
If so, is there an acceptable level of risk?
This means seeking the best return on their investments at an acceptable level of risk.
"The downsizing has been well managed and has achieved an acceptable level of risk," said Joseph W. Dyer, a retired Navy vice admiral and the chairman of NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel.
All of which raises the question: In action sports, where there are no widely recognized governing bodies or organized control, who decides what is an acceptable level of risk?
When people make investments, they weigh the possible outcomes of their decisions and select a portfolio of stocks and bonds that offers the highest possible return at an acceptable level of risk.
He also claimed the wider war on terror explains (and justifies) the war in Iraq because the attacks of September 2001 drastically altered the acceptable level of risk: "we were attacked and therefore every threat had to be reanalysed".
Any move to release even what is likely to be only a handful of detainees carries some genuine security threat and will be politically difficult, but it is an acceptable level of risk when measured against the significant strategic gains of the permanent closure of Guantánamo.
"After careful evaluation, the chiefs of staff have advised me that U.K. forces are able to undertake the proposed operation, that there is a compelling military operational justification for doing so, and that it entails a militarily acceptable level of risk for U.K. forces," Mr. Hoon told the House of Commons.
In contrast, Dimon admires the approach of the members of the Basel Committee, the international regulators who are imposing heightened capital requirements, because they are asking the questions that, in theory, bankers ask of themselves: how much capital do banks need to withstand the inevitable downturn, and what is an acceptable level of risk?
