Q&A. While we often think of expenses as salaries, advertising, rent, interest, and so on, the cost of goods sold is also an expense. The cost of goods that were sold needs to be matched with the pertinent sales on the income statement, just as commission expense must be matched with sales or other revenues.
Part of the Network security glossary: OCTAVE (Operationally Critical Threat, Asset, and Vulnerability Evaluation) is a security framework for determining risk level and planning defenses against cyber assaults.CTAVE is designed to leverage the experience and expertise of people within the organization. The first step is to construct profiles of threats based on the relative risk that they pose. The process goes on to conduct a vulnerability assessment specific to the organization.
The OCTAVE method is an approach used to assess an organization's information security needs. OCTAVE Allegro is the most recently developed and actively supported method. This method is based on two older versions called OCTAVE Original and OCTAVE-S. OCTAVE methods are self-directed, flexible, and evolved. Using OCTAVE, small teams across business units and IT work together to address the security needs of the organization. The method can be tailored to the organization's unique risk environment, security and resilience objectives, and skill level.