Risk Identification
What is Risk Identification?
The process of finding, recognizing, and describing risks that could affect the achievement of organizational objectives.
Terms that appear alongside risk identification
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as risk identification. The number is how many controls name both.
- governance 14 shared controls
- risk assessment 14 shared controls
- iso 31000 10 shared controls
- audit 8 shared controls
- risk treatment 6 shared controls
- impact assessment 5 shared controls
- compliance 5 shared controls
- change management 5 shared controls
Frameworks that govern risk identification
What the standards actually require on risk identification
Requirements naming risk identification across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Risk Reporting + KRIs + Performance + Horizon Scanning translate the risk management process into actionable management information.
IRM-Reporting-KRIs-Performance-HorizonScanning-Dashboard-Heatmap-RiskRegister-EmergingRisk · IRM Risk Reporting + Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) + Performance Measurement + Horizon Scanning + Dashboard + Heat Map + Risk Register + Emerging Risk Identification →Identify sources of AI risk including data, model, system, deployment, and societal factors.
23894-6.4.2 · AI Risk Identification →Clauses 8 + 8.1 + 8.2 establish ethical risk management and Clause 10 establishes validation of ethical outcomes. Per public IEEE 7000-2021 abstract + Wikipedia + academic literature (full IEEE text NOT reproduced): ethical risk identification covering: harm t...
IEEE7000-EthicalRisk-Identification-Analysis-Treatment-ValidationOutcomes · IEEE 7000 Clauses 8 + 8.1 + 8.2 - Ethical Risk Identification + Analysis + Treatment + Validation of Ethical Outcomes + AI Safety + Robustness + Adversarial Protection →Identify privacy risks across PII lifecycle including collection, use, retention, sharing, and disposal.
ISO27557-6.2 · Privacy Risk Identification →Identifying potential privacy risks to PII principals arising from the processing activities
29134-7.1 · Risk identification →Identify any climate related risks that have had or are reasonably likely to have a material impact on the business strategy, results of operations, or financial condition, and describe the actual and potential impacts of these risks.
SEC-CLM-01 · Climate Related Risk Identification →Questions people ask about risk identification
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