How does Risk assessment support the objective “identifies threats, vulnerabilities, likelihood, impact, and existing safeguards”?

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Risk assessment is a cybersecurity control or practice. It supports this objective: identifies threats, vulnerabilities, likelihood, impact, and existing safeguards. The implementation should still be validated against the organization's risk, architecture, legal obligations and operating constraints, then adapted rather than copied unchanged between environments.

CIS Critical Security Controls v8: https://www.cisecurity.org/controls/v8