Having information on threats and on actual incidents experienced by others can help an organization identify trends, better understand the risks it faces, and determine what preventative measures should be implemented.
He have information of the threats on hand.
For example in figure 4.1, although federal government saving increased as a share of GDP by 5.5 percentage points from 1990 to 2000, net national saving increased by only 1.1 percentage points because private saving as a share of GDP decreased by 4.9 percentage points over the same period.