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 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
The CISO should work alongside business teams to facilitate the analysis and management of security risk, including setting acceptable levels of risk in a consistent way across the agency.
new-zealand-information-security-manual-nzism::3.2.12.C.03 · 3.2.12.C.03 Consistent risk analysis and acceptable risk levels →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 →The organization plans, carries out and controls the processes needed to satisfy product and service requirements and to put the 6.1 actions into effect.
as9100d-aerospace-quality-management-system::8.1 · 8.1 Operational planning and control →Mining and coal organisations report, by river basin, how many tailings dams they control, active and inactive; state whether they evaluate and classify dams by the consequences of failure to human health and ecosystems and the guidelines used;
cdp-formerly-carbon-disclosure-project::2.6 · Questions 2.6 to 2.6.3: Tailings dam management →Alternative strategies are evaluated, together with the effect each could have on the risk profile. Strategy must support the mission and vision and align with core values and risk appetite;
coso-enterprise-risk-management-erm-framework-2017::P8 · Principle 8: Evaluates Alternative Strategies →An FMI gives fair and open access to its services, including to direct and where relevant indirect participants and other FMIs, on reasonable risk-related participation requirements.
cpmi-iosco-principles-for-financial-market-infrastructures::P18 · Principle 18 Access and participation requirements →Questions people ask about acceptable risk
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