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Updated mission_impact.md (#706)
Updated wording in light of the fact that SSVC is no longer hosted here as a paper. Also removed block of text on Utility that might be causing unnecessary confusion.
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## Gathering Information About Mission Impact
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The factors that influence the mission impact level are diverse.
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This paper does not exhaustively discuss how a stakeholder should answer a question; that is a topic for future work.
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The material here does not exhaustively discuss how a stakeholder should answer a question; that is a topic for future work.
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At a minimum, understanding mission impact should include gathering information about the critical paths that involve vulnerable components, viability of contingency measures, and resiliency of the systems that support the mission.
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There are various sources of guidance on how to gather this information; see for example the FEMA guidance in Continuity Directive 2 [@FCD2_2017] or OCTAVE FORTE [@tucker2018octave].
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This is part of risk management more broadly.
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It should require the vulnerability management team to interact with more senior management to understand mission priorities and other aspects of risk mitigation.
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As a heuristic, [Utility](utility.md) might constrain [*Mission Impact*](mission_impact.md) if both are not used in the same decision tree.
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For example, if the [Utility](utility.md) is [*super effective*](utility.md), then [*Mission Impact*](mission_impact.md) is at least [*MEF support crippled*](mission_impact.md).
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## Prior Versions
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