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Risk Culture

What is Risk Culture?

The shared values, beliefs, knowledge, and attitudes within an organization that influence how risks are identified, assessed, and managed.

Risk Management

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

What the standards actually require on risk culture

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

The organization reports on risk, culture, and performance at multiple levels and across the entity.

INFO-20 · Reports on Risk, Culture, and Performance

The risk management strategy must at least describe each material risk identified and the approach to managing it, list the policies and procedures dealing with risk management matters, summarise the role and responsibilities of the risk management function, d...

CPS220-P30 · Minimum Contents of the Risk Management Strategy

The risk management strategy must describe each material risk identified and the approach to managing it, the policies and procedures covering risk identification and assessment, establishing, implementing and testing mitigation strategies and control mechanis...

SPS220-P22 · Minimum Contents of the Risk Management Strategy

HKMA C-RAF Domain 1 GOVERNANCE + Domain 2 IDENTIFICATION. DOMAIN 1 GOVERNANCE (5 sub-areas): (1) CYBER RISK GOVERNANCE - board + senior management oversight + governance structure + reporting lines + delegation; board cyber-risk literacy + training;

HKMA-CRAF-Domain1-2-Governance-Identification · HKMA C-RAF Domain 1 (Governance) + Domain 2 (Identification) - Cyber Strategy, Risk Management, Asset Management, Threat Assessment

Insurers establish corporate governance frameworks with effective oversight, defined roles and risk culture.

ICP7 · Corporate Governance

Questions people ask about risk culture

What is Risk Culture?
The shared values, beliefs, knowledge, and attitudes within an organization that influence how risks are identified, assessed, and managed.
Why is Risk Culture important for compliance?
Risk Culture is a key concept in Risk Management. Understanding risk culture 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 Culture?
Risk Culture appears in the requirement text of IRM Enterprise Risk Management Framework (Institute of Risk Management), COSO Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Framework (2017), APRA CPS 220 Risk Management, APRA SPS 220 Risk Management (Superannuation), HKMA Cyber Resilience Assessment Framework (C-RAF). Across these standards we have identified 8 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Risk Culture?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how risk culture 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 Culture applies across compliance frameworks

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