Acceptable Risk
What is Acceptable Risk?
A risk that has been evaluated and determined to be within the organization's risk tolerance, requiring no additional mitigation.
Terms that appear alongside acceptable risk
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as acceptable risk. The number is how many controls name both.
- risk assessment 2 shared controls
- baseline 2 shared controls
- fedramp 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern acceptable risk
What the standards actually require on acceptable risk
Requirements naming acceptable risk across 3 standards, quoted from the control text.
Implement the MARS-E v2.0 Volume III Catalog of Minimum Acceptable Risk Security and Privacy Controls aligned with NIST 800-53 Moderate Baseline.
MARS-E-NIST-800-53-Moderate-Baseline-Catalog-v2-0-Volume-III-Tailoring-Risk-Assessment-Categorization · MARS-E NIST 800-53 Moderate Baseline + MARS-E Catalog Volume III + Tailoring + Risk Assessment + Categorization →Coordination positions IRS Pub 1075 within the broader US federal + state + and industry security landscape. (1) NIST Standards: NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 (primary control set incorporated by reference Section 9.3) + NIST SP 800-53A (assessment methodology) + NIST...
IRSPub1075-CoordNIST80053-FedRAMP-FISMA-CJIS-SSACDS-StateRevAgencies-PrivacyAct-SOC2-Industry · IRS Pub 1075 Coordination - NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 + FedRAMP + FISMA + 26 USC 6103 + FBI CJIS + SSA CDS + State Revenue Agencies + Privacy Act + SOC 2 + Industry Frameworks + Federal Sectoral →Elicit, analyse, and document stakeholder needs and translate them into validated stakeholder requirements that capture protection needs and acceptable risk.
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