Event Summary
Many organizations discuss risk qualitatively but lack a consistent, structured approach to measuring and quantifying it. Without a clear understanding of the risk equation and how to translate threats into measurable impact, decision-making around risk and resilience remains subjective and inconsistent.
This gap can lead to misprioritized investments, overlooked vulnerabilities, and ineffective mitigation strategies. Organizations may struggle to justify decisions, respond to disruptions, or build resilient operations—resulting in increased exposure to financial loss, operational downtime, and safety risks.
This course provides a practical framework for quantifying risk using the risk equation and applying it to real-world scenarios. It connects risk measurement to business continuity planning, helping participants understand how to evaluate threats, assess impact, and prioritize actions that strengthen organizational resilience.
Participants will be able to quantify risk within their operations, prioritize mitigation strategies, and support more informed, data-driven decision-making. They will leave with tools to strengthen business continuity planning and improve their organization’s ability to respond to and recover from disruptions.
Who Should Attend
- Risk, safety, and compliance professionals
- Operations leaders and managers responsible for continuity and performance
- Security and resilience professionals
- Business continuity and emergency planning teams
- Anyone responsible for identifying, assessing, or managing organizational risk
What You Will Gain
- A clear understanding of the risk equation and how to apply it in practice
- The ability to quantify and prioritize risks within your organization
- Insight into connecting risk measurement with business continuity planning
- Practical tools for evaluating threats, vulnerabilities, and impact
- Strategies to improve resilience and response to disruptions
- Increased confidence in making and supporting risk-based decisions
- 3 Professional Development Hours (PDH) upon completion
Meet Your Instructor
Annie McIntyre
Director of Security, EverLine
Annie McIntyre is the Director of Security at EverLine. Prior to EverLine, Ms. McIntyre was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Ardua Strategies, Inc., a Texas Corporation, providing solutions for the cyber and operational security issues of energy and infrastructure. Prior to founding Ardua Strategies, Ms. McIntyre was a Principal Member of Technical Staff and Program Manager at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her research areas at Sandia included threats, vulnerabilities, and protection of critical infrastructure systems, and cybersecurity for fossil and renewable energy systems. She managed the Sandia-Forest City Strategic Partnership program for sustainability, and participated in programs such as the Institute for Infrastructure Information Protection (I3P), and National SCADA Test Bed. Ms. McIntyre conducted the first cyber analysis of a renewable system in 2007 for the Department of Energy.
Prior to work in critical infrastructure, Ms. McIntyre worked extensively in the defense sector on information warfare and survivability, serving as IO Laboratory Chief and Information Warfare Lead for Future Combat Systems Assessments at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. She previously served as New Mexico Regional Manager for Concurrent Technologies Corporation, a defense and energy contractor, and performed systems analysis and engineering in the bioinformatics field for Molecular Informatics, Inc. Throughout her career, she has worked closely with the U.S. Departments of Energy, Homeland Security, and Defense.
Ms. McIntyre conducts extensive work on security policies as they relate to energy and infrastructure. She served as an author for the American Petroleum Institute’s SCADA Security Standard (1164v2), serves on the Advisory Council at the North American Energy Standards Board, and has served as a Senior Fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Technology Leadership Institute. She is a Licensed Private Investigator in the State of Texas.
