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.
Terms that appear alongside risk criteria
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as risk criteria. The number is how many controls name both.
- iso 27005 3 shared controls
- risk analysis 3 shared controls
- risk assessment 2 shared controls
- iso 31000 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern risk criteria
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 →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 →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
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