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Risk Avoidance

What is Risk Avoidance?

A risk treatment strategy that eliminates a risk entirely by choosing not to engage in the activity or process that gives rise to the risk.

Risk Management

What the standards actually require on risk avoidance

Requirements naming risk avoidance across this standard, quoted from the control text.

Select and implement options for addressing AI-specific risks including risk avoidance, acceptance, mitigation through controls, or risk transfer.

ISO23894-6.4 · AI Risk Treatment

Questions people ask about risk avoidance

What is Risk Avoidance?
A risk treatment strategy that eliminates a risk entirely by choosing not to engage in the activity or process that gives rise to the risk.
Why is Risk Avoidance important for compliance?
Risk Avoidance is a key concept in Risk Management. Understanding risk avoidance 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 Risk Avoidance?
Risk Avoidance appears in the requirement text of ISO/IEC 23894:2023. Across these standards we have identified 1 control that names it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Risk Avoidance?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how risk avoidance 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 Risk Avoidance applies across compliance frameworks

Our platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings. Explore how this concept is addressed across standards.

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