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Risk Criteria

What is Risk Criteria?

The benchmarks and thresholds used by an organization to evaluate the significance of identified risks and determine appropriate responses.

Risk Management

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

What the standards actually require on risk criteria

Requirements naming risk criteria across 4 standards, quoted from the control text.

Requirement defined in ISO/IEC 23894:2023, clause 6.3.4 (Defining risk criteria). See licensed source for normative text. Implementation focus is to demonstrate conformity with the obligations of this clause through the artefacts listed in evidence_requirement...

iso-iec-23894-2023::6.3.4 · Defining risk criteria
ISO 27005:20222 controls

Requirement defined in ISO 27005:2022, clause 6.4 (Establishing and maintaining information security risk criteria). See licensed source for normative text.

iso-27005-2022::6.4 · Establishing and maintaining information security risk criteria
ISO 31000:20182 controls

Requirement defined in ISO 31000:2018, clause 6.3.4 (Defining risk criteria). See licensed source for normative text. Implementation focus is to demonstrate conformity with the obligations of this clause through the artefacts listed in evidence_requirements.

iso-31000-2018::6.3.4 · Defining risk criteria

Defining scope, context, and risk criteria specifically for privacy risk management

27557-6.2 · Scope, context, and criteria for privacy

Questions people ask about risk criteria

What is Risk Criteria?
The benchmarks and thresholds used by an organization to evaluate the significance of identified risks and determine appropriate responses.
Why is Risk Criteria important for compliance?
Risk Criteria is a key concept in Risk Management. Understanding risk criteria 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 Criteria?
Risk Criteria appears in the requirement text of ISO/IEC 23894:2023, ISO 27005:2022, ISO 31000:2018, ISO/IEC 27557:2022 - Organisational Privacy Risk Management. Across these standards we have identified 9 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Risk Criteria?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how risk criteria 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 Criteria applies across compliance frameworks

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Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.