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Risk Aggregation

What is Risk Aggregation?

The process of combining individual risks to understand their cumulative effect and total exposure across the organization.

Risk Management

What the standards actually require on risk aggregation

Requirements naming risk aggregation across 3 standards, quoted from the control text.

The framework's risk data aggregation and reporting policies, procedures and processes, appropriate to the bank's size, complexity and risk profile and supporting supervisory reporting, should provide for the design, implementation and maintenance of a data ar...

occ-heightened-standards-12-cfr-part-30-appendix-d::II.J.1 · II.J.1 Data architecture and IT infrastructure for risk aggregation →

Risk aggregations are subject to governance and oversight. Baseline: a risk framework is in place that covers exposure management and catastrophe risk; material issues are discussed regularly by senior management and the board;

principles-for-doing-business-at-lloyd-s::P2.10 · 2.10 Governance and oversight of risk aggregations →

Input: events, inside the organisation or beyond it, that could stand in the way of its information security objectives. Action: identify risks tied to loss of confidentiality, integrity and availability.

iso-27005-2022::7.2.1 · Identifying and describing information security risks →

Questions people ask about risk aggregation

What is Risk Aggregation?
The process of combining individual risks to understand their cumulative effect and total exposure across the organization.
Why is Risk Aggregation important for compliance?
Risk Aggregation is a key concept in Risk Management. Understanding risk aggregation helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 1,027 frameworks with 316K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Risk Aggregation?
Risk Aggregation appears in the requirement text of OCC Heightened Standards (12 CFR Part 30, Appendix D), Principles for Doing Business at Lloyd's, ISO 27005:2022. Across these standards we have identified 3 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Risk Aggregation?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how risk aggregation 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 1,027 frameworks.

See how Risk Aggregation applies across compliance frameworks

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