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Enterprise Risk Management

What is Enterprise Risk Management?

A holistic approach to managing all types of organizational risk including strategic, operational, financial, and compliance risks in an integrated framework.

Risk Management

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as enterprise risk management. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on enterprise risk management

Requirements naming enterprise risk management across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

Cybersecurity risk management activities and outcomes are included in enterprise risk management processes

NIST-CSF-GV.RM-03 · Cybersecurity risk management activities and outcomes are included in enterprise risk management processes
SASB Standards3 controls

Demonstrate integration of sustainability and climate risks into the entity's enterprise risk management framework, including consistent rating scales and escalation paths.

SASB-RM-02 · Integration of Sustainability Risks into Enterprise Risk Management

Insurers conduct an Own Risk and Solvency Assessment integrating risk management and capital adequacy.

ICP16 · Enterprise Risk Management and ORSA

Address enterprise risk management and governance within the program, covering assessment, mitigation and monitoring of security and technology risk, security and technology capital planning and investment, board and management oversight, technology audit and...

CFTC-SS-2 · Enterprise Risk Management and Governance Category

The organization uses communication channels to support enterprise risk management.

INFO-19 · Communicates Risk Information

Questions people ask about enterprise risk management

What is Enterprise Risk Management?
A holistic approach to managing all types of organizational risk including strategic, operational, financial, and compliance risks in an integrated framework.
Why is Enterprise Risk Management important for compliance?
Enterprise Risk Management is a key concept in Risk Management. Understanding enterprise risk management helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Enterprise Risk Management?
Enterprise Risk Management appears in the requirement text of NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0, SASB Standards, IAIS Insurance Core Principles (ICPs), CFTC System Safeguards (17 CFR 37, 38, 39, 49), IRM Enterprise Risk Management Framework (Institute of Risk Management). Across these standards we have identified 14 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Enterprise Risk Management?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how enterprise risk management applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

See how Enterprise Risk Management applies across compliance frameworks

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