CompTIA Security+ Exam Prep

Answer: B - Annualized rate of occurrence tells a company how much money should sensibly be spent per year on safeguard measures to protect assets from threats. This value represents the estimated frequency of a specific threat taking place within a one-year timeframe. Knowing the real possibility of a threat and how much damage, in monetary terms, the threat can cause is important in determining how much should be spent to try to protect against that threat in the first place.